Year: 1978

FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1978. The text on the envelope reads:”Moscow, Bahx, Sculpture of a mukhina worker and collective farmers”.
Bahx is the permanent exhibition center in Moscow. Mukhina was the sculptor of the Worker And Kolkhoz Woman. Worker and Kolkhoznitza Woman is a sculpture of two figures with a sickle and a hammer raised over their heads. It is 24.5 metres (78 feet) high, made from stainless steel by Vera Mukhina for the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris, and subsequently moved to Moscow. The sculpture is an example of socialist realism in an Art Deco aesthetic. The worker holds aloft a hammer and the kolkhoz woman a sickle to form the hammer and sickle symbol.