10 RUB Petrozavodsk 2016, GVS

The coin of 10 rubles, Petrozavodsk from the series of the City of Military Glory (GVS) was released on July 11, 2016.

Obverse: in the center of the disk - denomination of the coin "10 RUBLES". Inside the figure "0" is a hidden number of "10" and the inscription "RUB" that are visible alternately when the angle of view is changed. Along the circumference along the edge there are inscriptions, above: "BANK OF RUSSIA", at the bottom - year of issue: "2016", on the left - a stylized image of the olive branch, on the right - oak

Reverse: the coat of arms of the city of Petrozavodsk, above it, on the ribbon - an inscription in a semicircle: "Cities of Warrior Glory", below along the edge is the inscription: "PETROZAVODSK".

The city of Petrozavodsk is located in Karelia, in the north of our land, near the border with Finland. In 1941 Finland entered the war against our country in alliance with Nazi Germany. Finland was an ally of Hitler. Finland wanted revenge for the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940, and at the same time, its authorities understood that it alone could not cope with it from the USSR. Therefore, they concluded a military alliance with Hitler. Finland hoped to receive a valuable prize for its services to the fascists - Karelia.

Finland participated in the implementation of the German plan "Barbarossa". In the summer of 1941, Finnish troops occupied the Karelian Isthmus, closing the blockade around Leningrad from the north, came to the Onega Lake and the Murmansk Railroad. The Finns provided their airfields for German aviation so that the Germans could bomb Murmansk and other our ports on the Kola Peninsula.

On October 2, 1941, Finnish troops entered Petrozavodsk. Immediately, concentration camps were created, where the Russian population was driven, as "unrelated". Those of the Russians who would have survived in the Finnish death camps were later to be deported to the German occupation zone, to the German death camps. Karelia had to be cleared of "subhuman", so the head of Finland, Mannerheim, a former citizen of the Russian Empire, and now an ally of the German Nazis, believed. The death rate in the concentration camps was very high.

Petrozavodsk was liberated by our troops in June 1944. They found young children in the Petrozavodsk concentration camp, prisoners of the death camp, hungry, exhausted, barely alive. The photographs of these unfortunate children were later presented as evidence at the Nuremberg Trial.

For the courage and heroism shown in the Great Patriotic War, the city of Petrozavodsk was awarded the honorary title of the City of Military Glory on April 6, 2015.

Honorary title of the city of military glory (GVS) is appropriated by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation "For courage, fortitude and mass heroism shown by city defenders in the struggle for freedom and independence of the Fatherland".