LOT # 17106.
Badge of the USSR Scientific and Technical Society, Moscow Mint. Sost .: Excellent. Description: Brass (alloy), hot enamel. Size: 19 x 18 mm.
P.S. In August 1921, the Soviet government issued a decree (signed by V.I. Lenin) on assistance to scientific societies in the development and broad coverage of technical and economic and organizational issues, in the organization of congresses and meetings, and the publication of printed media.
In 1931, scientific engineering and technical societies were formed, which actively participated in the development and implementation of plans for socialist construction, in solving urgent problems of energy, metallurgy, chemistry, mechanical engineering, organized committees to assist major construction projects, conducted scientific and technical competitions, and looked at the introduction of new technology in Production. By the decision of the Central Committee of the CPSU "On Scientific Engineering and Technical Societies" (1954), all of them were reorganized into mass NTO by industry branches, and their management in laid on the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. 4 All-Union NTO congresses took place (1959, 1964, 1968, 1973).
