This type of chess set had been manufacturing from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s in the Mordovian ASSR (Mordovian Autonomous Socialist Republic – now called Republic of Mordovia, located southeast of the Moscow region), in Temnikovsky correctional labor camps (Temlag) in the village of Yavas and the surrounding settlements.
Board: 36x36 cm, square 4.4 cm.
King 9.6 cm, base 3.8 cm.
Pawn 4.2 cm, base 2.8 cm.
Weight 1 kg.
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- 73 years old wooden Russian chess set of Soviet Era. Mordovian Gulag chess set USSR. Red black chess pieces. Chess set 1953. 1950s Russian vintage chess gift.
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