Vintage Soviet Russian Chess Set circa 1950s

Here's some pics of a vintage circa 1950s Soviet set. Kings measure 3 1/8" in height. Pawn height 1 5/8".  My set looks similar to Cgrau, UpcountryRain and Ronbo's sets but appears be an older version. 

VERY Cool Mike. Makes me want my set to get here even faster . I think my king is the same height. The knights and Rooks are what sold me on this style. 

I love this style. The knights are unique. Your pawns are special, even for this design. Here are examples of the pawns in my set...

I also really like the red pieces. No date in the box?

Wow, goodknightmike, what a set! It definitely seems older. Is that a recent acquisition? When did you get it?

Thanks Chuck, yep no date on box

My pleasure UpcountryRain,  I got this set on Ebay around 3 years ago

I got one of those, according to the information on the box (a russian member of chess.com kindly translated it) it was made in Valdai, Novgorod.

Wow! Exquisite condition. That is how I am trying to find many of the 60's-80's Soviet era sets now. Congrats 

Found the post. BurnAmos made some interesting comments about the set, he pointed out that the set could have been made in the 50's or early 60's.  

I just checked inside the box. There is a date.

Thanks Ronbo. I was very lucky to find it. 

1957, Info?

A thing of beauty. 

Leave it to the Russians to make something like that.

I have a boring Staunton set compared to this.

Last number looks more like a 2 written in a hurry.

I'd say 1952.

I am interested in finding out more about the Soviet set shown in Episode 7 season 2 of the poorly acted rather odd European cop show Crossing Lines. If anyone knows who's it is or who provided the sets for this show I would like to know.

The set is shown very briefly only. This is the best I could do for screenshots:

Hi Frank,

Yes M downloaded a couple of pics but for some reason I cannot see your pictures here.

Could you please send it/them to me on my email. alandewey@rocketmail.com as an attachment.