Event badge — Festival del Disco Soviético

Name/Title

Event badge — "Festival del Disco Soviético"

Entry/Object ID

2025.20.6

Description

Rectangular enamel pin on a red ground. At the left, a gilt profile bust of Vladimir Lenin (bald crown, mustache and goatee); at the right, raised gilt lettering in four lines reading "FESTIVAL / DEL / DISCO / SOVIÉTICO." Plain gilt rim.

Acquisition

Accession

2025.20

Acquisition Method

Gift

Made/Created

Notes

Maker: Not determinable from the obverse (reverse not shown). Issued in connection with the "Festival del Disco Soviético," the Cuban festival/record series whose discs appeared on EGREM's Areito label. Date: Undated. The associated festival/series is documented in Cuba and is consistent with the 1960s–80s Soviet–Cuban cultural-exchange period, so a date within 1959–1990 is likely; the precise year is unconfirmed and nothing on the object fixes it. Tentative. Place of Origin: Issued for a Cuban event (Spanish-language text). Manufacture origin — Cuban-made or Soviet-made for the Cuban market — is not determinable without the reverse. Tentative.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Notes

Obverse: "FESTIVAL DEL DISCO SOVIÉTICO"; profile image of Lenin

Materials

Material

Metal

Material Notes

Materials: Enameled metal — red enamel on a gilt copper-alloy/brass base, with gilt relief lettering and portrait. Technique: Die-struck/stamped metal with filled (champlevé) enamel ground and gilt relief.

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

EGREM

Person or Organization

Vladimir I. Lenin

Notes

imagery

Related Events

Event

Festival del Disco Soviético

Research Notes

Notes

Lenin's image branding a Cuban music-festival badge for a series that brought Soviet popular song to Cuban audiences via EGREM/Areito.

Created By

María A. Cabrera Arús

Create Date

October 16, 2025

Updated By

María A. Cabrera Arús

Update Date

June 18, 2026