Need help with a imperial Russian Token

Ive looked everywhere and I cant find what this is. Heres the story. A friend of mine's mom when she was a little girl in soviet controlled Ukraine back in the 60s was playing out in a garden and found this token. Ive looked everywhere with several coin buddies of mine and cant find out what it is. I would really appreciate some help with this.

 

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Well at least we know it’s not imperial Russian.

 

Its not? What would it be

 

Definitely Soviet, imperial Russia ended in 1918, this appears to be from the 50s or 60s

 

Why would Alexander and Nicolas be on it

 

anyone read Russian? that may be the best way to figure this out even a few words could help a lot in particular the bigger word below the bust

nothing about the says "soviet" to me but It has been years since I studied that in depth

 

Does it say Sergei (Сергей) on the column? Something like that.
I'm having trouble making out the text.

Edit: ok, I think it might say
Сергей Александрович
on the pillar, referring to Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.

 

I was blind. But now I see

 

@The Eidolon ...thanks for that link. Interesting read. I guess the Romanovs were compelled to remember him with a token/medal after his assassination, but from his bio, it sounds as if he was not a very nice person...imo...Spark

 

Still no answers on what it is huh. Well I spend around 2 hours researching trying to find out what it is and found nothing so im going to guess this is a hard one

 

I asked a few Russian friends of mine to see if they can read the text

 

Thanks

 

Well, not much help. The large letters in the middle of the thing on the reverse is “SERGEI,” so common Russian name...

 

I'm still voting for Sergei Alexandrovich as the text on the pillar.
Сергей Александрович

 

It fits. I was looking up neoclassical building in Russia and from 1905-1918 was a major time of neoclassical art and design in Russia

 

So we got the Main guy being shown
But can we find if this is a official issue by the government or a private issue

 

I don't think it's a coin or token. There's too little text for a coin, and even tokens
usually have a denomination or issuer name. I think it might be closer to a
commemorative medal. I did a bunch of image searches and didn't see anything
very close. Hope you have some luck.

 

There seems to be alot of writing below the building but from the images and given the damage I can not seem to tell for sure

 

Ill try to get a pic from him

 

It looks to me as though the top line ends with the figures 39.