LOT # 17100. " Excellent builder " à perfectly preserved sign of the original nut of the 40's. Brass, gilding, hot enamel. Good. Collection condition. !! There are chips, please see the photo.
P.S. During the war on Sept. 22, 1943, on the 22nd of September 1943, for the purpose of encouraging the highly distinguished persons of the commanding and rank-and-file rail transport, the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR approved the position and eight new breastplates made of bronze in four variants: yellow (gold plated), white (silvered), nickel plated And oxidized: "Excellent steam engine", "Excellent driver", "Excellent traveler", "Excellent communicator", "Excellent wagon", "Excellent builder", "Excellent recovery agent", "Excellent administrative work Ik ".
The right to reward badges was given to the people's commissar of communications, the chiefs of the central and central departments of the NKPS, the chiefs of roads, the heads of the departments of military reconstruction of the fronts and the chiefs of the railroad services.
The first awards were held on the day of the 25th anniversary of the Leninist Komsomol (October 29, 1943), when the NKPS awarded 825 distinguished railwaymen badges "Excellent steam engine", "Excellent driver", "Excellent traveler", "Excellent communication", "Excellent Wagon "," Excellent builder "," Excellent rehabilitator "," Excellent administrative worker ", and also a sign" Honorary railway worker ". The main awarding with new badges was held on the 26th anniversary of the October Revolution (November 7, 1943).
The awarding of signs was carried out until 1957, when the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 16, 1957 "On breastplates for the encouragement of railway workers" awarding the indicated breastplates was canceled. To promote the advanced workers, who were particularly distinguished in the socialist competition, a single breastplate was created "Excellent worker of socialist competition. Etc. of transport. "
