The obverse of the coin from the museum’s exposition depicts a worker and a peasant against the background of the sun rising from behind the building. The year of issuance is indicated below — 1924. On the reverse, the upper part features the USSR coat of arms, with the denomination “ONE ruble” below it, and the inscription around the edge reads: “Proletarians of all countries, unite.” The edge of the coin bears the inscription “Pure silver 18 grams (43.21 d) p.l.”

The coin belonged to Olga Petrovna Volina, the middle sister of Arkady Gaidar.

Natalya Arkadyevna died in 1924 in the city of Alupka. A little earlier, the aspiring writer Arkady Golikov, the future Gaidar, managed to read to his mother a draft of his first work “In the Days of Defeats and Victories.”

Natalya Arkadyevna Golikova was most concerned about her middle daughter, Olga. The girl was frail, thin, and sickly. Her mother wrote about her,

The Golikovs, Pyotr Isidorovich and Natalya Arkadyevna, had trouble choosing a name for their middle daughter. The family legend was recorded by Natalya Pavlovna, Olga Petrovna’s daughter, in her memoirs,

Arkady took care of his sister. At the age of six, Olga could read and write. Later, she entered the Arzamas Women’s Gymnasium.