Gilded brass, nickel plating, enamel; 44.2 x 30.2 mm. Massive badge of solid quality and riveted three-piece construction.

Excellent, near mint condition. The screw post is of full length, approx. 8 mm measured from the reverse of the badge, and comes with an original screw plate mint-marked "Leningrad Mint".

This badge was established in 1985 and awarded until the collapse of the USSR in 1991. It was issued for excellent service to correctional officers and other MVD personnel of jails and forced labor camps. It was also awarded to faculty and staff of the MVD schools that trained personnel for the Soviet penitentiary system.

/See History of Awards and Insignia of Russian MVD, 1802 - 2002 p. 78, fig. 1.2.1.32/