Aluminum, paint, lacquer; 43.2 x 33.7 mm. The reverse shows the raised logo САЗ ("SAZ") of the Smolensk Aviation Factory. (The factory had a production line for pins and badges and incidentally, manufactured a number of other partisan veteran badges during the Soviet era). The inscription on the red band in the center is "The Glory of Those Days will Never Quiet Down", a verse from a Soviet patriotic poem about WW2. The badge is in excellent condition.

Originating from the area of the settlement of Rognedino, the 3rd (Rognedinskaya) Brigade was one of the most n

Aluminum, paint, lacquer; 43.2 x 33.7 mm. The reverse shows the raised logo САЗ ("SAZ") of the Smolensk Aviation Factory. (The factory had a production line for pins and badges and incidentally, manufactured a number of other partisan veteran badges during the Soviet era). The inscription on the red band in the center is "The Glory of Those Days will Never Quiet Down", a verse from a Soviet patriotic poem about WW2. The badge is in excellent condition.

Originating from the area of the settlement of Rognedino, the 3rd (Rognedinskaya) Brigade was one of the most notable of the myriads of partisan units that operated in the Bryansk Region of western Russia from 1941-44. It had its beginning in August 1940 as a group of some 40 saboteurs led by Captain Ilya Mural which quickly grew into a 160-men-strong partisan band. The unit was highly successful and particularly aggressive: by March 1942, it had conducted over 50 combat operations in which it destroyed a number of high-value German targets, including an armored train and four tanks (three of which were taken out personally by the unit commander Mural.) The Rognedinskaya brigade then merged with another partisan unit and became the 3rd Partisan Division, with Mural still in command. Mural was later promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed chief of intelligence of Polish partisans (apparently those cooperating with the Soviets); in July 1944, he was parachuted into the German-held Lublin region of Poland where he destroyed two railway trains and sabotaged the high-value communication cable between Lublin and Warsaw.

It is very uncommon to see a badge issued to a veteran of such a relatively small partisan formation, clearly a testimony to the very special status of the brigade.

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