Minerals of the Former Soviet Union in the Collections of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Rocks & Minerals | January 1, 2001| | COPYRIGHT 2001 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

From the Russian Revolution in 1917 to relatively recently, mineral specimens from the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union, were hard to come by in the West. The politics of the Cold War erected barriers to travel and trade that only started to lessen a little more than. a decade ago. When superb collections such as those of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum and Vladimir Pelepenko became available for popular viewing at Western gem and mineral shows, those of us without the ability to penetrate the Iron Curtain got our first exposure to specimens of ...

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