10 RUB Vladivostok 2014, GVS

The coin is 10 rubles, a series of Vladivostok City of Military Glory (WAN) released on July 10, 2014.

City Vladivostok from the very beginning of its existence byllan attack on Russia (USSR) with the capture of Vladivostok and other areas of Lake Baikal. In the thirties, we were constant border conflicts and battles unfolded in 1938 at Lake Hassan. Residents of Vladivostok assisted by regular units of the Red Army evacuated the wounded to hospitals Vladivostok. The heroic resistance of Vladivostok to Japan was of great importance for the course of the Great Patriotic War, when the Japanese, being allies of Hitler, decided not to open a second front against Russia.

During World War II the city was holding coastal defenses, preparing a guerrilla trained scouts parachutists sappers, snipers, who later went to the front. Vladivostok residents fought at Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, liberated Belarus and Ukraine, reached Berlin. Submariners sank German ships. From Vladivostok took to the front of more than 70 thousand people.

The war ended, but Vladivostok remains Russia's outpost in the Pacific. fortress city, an outpost of Russia in the Far East. In the name of the city lies its essence - the possession of the East. Vladivostok could not take Japanese in the Russian-Japanese war. Then in 1928 the Japanese began to develop a new pB November 2010, the city of Vladivostok was given the honorary title of City of Military Glory.

The reverse of the coin depicts the coat of arms of the city of Vladivostok - the Amur tiger, the symbol of strength and courage.

The honorary title of City of Military Glory (WAN) is assigned to the Decree of President of the Russian Federation "For courage, steadfastness and mass heroism the defenders of the city, in the struggle for freedom and independence of the Motherland."