Description: Restored & revised: Original “AKUSTIK SPUTNIK” souvenir with music box, CCCP 1957, chrome-plated Sputnik-Satelite with hammer & sickle flies around a golden hemisphere (of course the eastern half), the tail made of transparent plexiglass starts in Russia, date: 4.10.1957, CCCP (Soviet Union), by turning the hemisphere the music box plays a Russian melody & Sputnik sounds, a rarity in this condition! Info: Sputnik [ˈsput.nʲik] (Russian Спутник for “companion”, “companion”, in astronomical meaning “satellite” and “satellite”) was the name of the first ten Soviet satellites to reach Earth orbit.Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite in orbit on October 4, 1957 and is considered the starting signal for Soviet space travel.
The word sputnik is one of the 100 words of the 20th century and is synonymous with satellite in some (particularly Eastern European) countries.