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This is a Communications Gathering Donetsk Badge, and features a blue background with a hammer and sickle, and the characters III СЛЕТ СВЯЗИСТОВ УКРАИКЫ ДОНЕЦК-81.

This means roughly a Communications Gathering Donetsk Ukraine 1981.

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This is a Bearded Fellow Badge, and features a bearded fellow (who isn't Lenin for a change).

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This is a Rovenky Badge. It features a red star on a blue blackground, with a mining machine, and the characters РОВЕНЬКИ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovenky states Rovenky is a coal mining city in Luhansk Oblast (province) of south-eastern Ukraine. The city is designated as its own separate raion (district) within the oblast. During the Great Patriotic War, Rovenky was occupied by Nazi Germany. A group of the underground anti-fascist Komsomol (Communist youth) organization Young Guard operated there.

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This is a Day Miners Badge, and features a red star, a wreath, and the caracters ЕНЬ ШАХТЕРА.

Wikipedia states that that the Day Miners is a holiday that celebrates miners, and is the last Sunday of August.

Wikipedia also talks mentions:

Alexey Grigoryevich Stakhanov (Russian: Алексе́й Григо́рьевич Стаха́нов; 3 January 1906–1977) was a miner in the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor (1970), and a member of the CPSU (1936). He became a celebrity in 1935 as part of a movement that was intended to increase worker productivity and demonstrate the superiority of the socialist economic system.

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This a Moscow Olympics 1980 Boxing badge, and features the Moscow Olympics 1980 Logo, an image of a boxer, and the characters Москвa 80.

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This is a Kiev Badge, and features a red bar with a medal, a blue decorative border on the bottom right, an image of a bridge and a statue, and the characters Київ.

Wikipedia states the statue is Mikeshin's statue of Bohdan Khmelnytsky astride his horse located near St. Sophia Cathedral.

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This is a Liberators of Donbass badge, and has red along the top, an image of the Donbass monument, and blue along the bottom, with the characters Освободителям Донбасса.

Wikipedia states that the monument is dedicated to the liberators of the Donbass area, and is the largest monument in south-east Ukraine, and is located in Donetsk.

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So here we are in a lovely New Zealand Summer of 2009, and there are still plenty of badges to come. Here's a sneak preview.

This is a Kharkiv Badge. The badge has red across the top, blue, some city buildings, and the characters ХАРКІВ.

This is a Donetsk Taranto Badge. This badge has a flag of the Soviet Union and a flag of Italy. The characters ДОНЕЦК and TARANTO appear below. Donetsk is a city in Ukraine, while Taranto is a city in Italy where Tarantula spiders got their name.

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