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Our fellow countryman Taras Melnychuk was awarded by the rare order of “Karl Marx” in 1918. He
served on the battleships “Olexander-3” and “Oslyabya”, “Vladymir Pervozvanniy” of the Baltic and Black Sea
fleets then and was the eyewitness of the armed insurrection on the battleship “Potyomkin”.
Melnychuk and his friends removed 32 mines in the fairway of the
Novorussian port. This fact was embodied in the native dramatic art in
Korniychuk’s play “
The squadron wreck”.
And the head of the revolutionary military Rada of the Black Sea fleet
Odnostavka conferred the above-mentioned “Karl Marx” Order upon the inhabitant of Podillya.
The order was gold and had 2,5-3 centimeters in diameter. The author of “Capital” was on its
heads, the tails of the
coin contained the
slogan: “Long live
equality and fellowship!”
The son of the sailor-hero handed this order over Moscow museum named
after K. Marx and F. Engels in 1972.
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