Profile: Lapel Pins – 1965 European Championships, Moscow, USSR Fifty-four years had elapsed since a European Figure Skating Championship had been contested on Russian soil, the first taking place in 1911 in St. Petersburg long before the USSR came into being. So when the 1965 European Figure Skating Championships came to the Soviet capital of… Continue reading 1965 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Strange But Not Unusual.
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1990 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Leningrad 20 Years Later.
Profile: Lapel Pins – 1990 European Figure Skating Championships In January 1990, some 20 years had passed since the 1970 European Figure Skating Championships had been staged in Leningrad, USSR.1 So it was, perhaps, a momentous occasion when the 1990 European Figure Skating Championships were staged in that city in late January of that year,… Continue reading 1990 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Leningrad 20 Years Later.
Lacking in Character. 1970.
to commemorate a major event, there would be a clear and unimpeachable winner: any pin made to commemorate the 1970 European Figure Skating Championships.