Honored Railway Employee badge, early post-Soviet version, #188516, 1993 - early 2000s issue.
In gilded and nickel-plated brass, enamels, and lacquer; medallion is of riveted four-piece construction, measures 46.0 mm tall including the eyelet, 31.6 mm in width, and weighs 21.8 g not including the suspension and connecting link. Beautiful quality, especially for a badge of relatively late issue. The reverse shows the early post-Soviet stamped logo of the Leningrad Mint and engraved serial number.
In excellent, near mint condition. The enamel and finishes are pristine. Comes on original suspension device with immaculately clean old ribbon.
Instituted in 1993, th
In gilded and nickel-plated brass, enamels, and lacquer; medallion is of riveted four-piece construction, measures 46.0 mm tall including the eyelet, 31.6 mm in width, and weighs 21.8 g not including the suspension and connecting link. Beautiful quality, especially for a badge of relatively late issue. The reverse shows the early post-Soviet stamped logo of the Leningrad Mint and engraved serial number.
In excellent, near mint condition. The enamel and finishes are pristine. Comes on original suspension device with immaculately clean old ribbon.
Instituted in 1993, this award continued the tradition of the Soviet Honored Railway badges. Its design closely resembles the last Soviet model but lacks the overtly Soviet symbols such as the Kremlin tower and red banner with the hammer & sickle. Interestingly the serial numbers of the post-Soviet issues continued from the old badge, starting from # 181400. During the period of relatively amicable relationships between the former Soviet republics, the Honored Railway badges were commissioned in Russia and awarded by the local authorities in the newly independent states according to the mutual agreement and in numbers proportional to the number of railroad employees in each of the states. This uncommon version of the badge is often referred to as "SNG version" by the Russian-speaking collectors after the SNG (Soyuz Nezavisimykh Gosudarstv - i.e Commonwealth of Independent States), a loose economic and cultural union of most of the former Soviet republics that was established in 1993 and still exists now, although with a greatly reduced number of member states.
/Vladimir Lapin, Award Badges of the Railroad Transport, pp. 90-93/
Please note, penny in our photo is for size reference.
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