Riga RKT Cooperative Industry Trade School (Tekhnikum), graduate badge, circa 1960s-70s.

Brass, enamels, 43.1 x 24.0 mm. Features two-piece construction (the state emblem of Soviet Latvia is a separate superimposed part), pin back attachment. The abbreviation RKT stands for Rigas Kooperacijas Tehnikums, an associate degree college level school that trained professional cadres such as shopkeepers, cooks, bookkeepers etc. for Soviet small cooperative workshops that were allowed in the Baltic republics to much larger degree than elsewhere in the USSR.

In excellent condition.


$95.00