Stalin Era Labor Awards, 1930s-50s
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Badge in Commemoration of the 5th Anniversary of the Stalin
Railway Worker's Day, 1940. A very uncommon award for best
railroad workers issued early during WW2, just before the
German invasion of the Soviet Union. In outstanding condition
and includes original maker marked screw plate.
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Award document for the badge for Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Transportation Machinery Construction, 1951. Issued to a female worker of the famous Kirov Plant in Leningrad for outstanding results in building steam engine locomotives or other railroad equipment. EXC condition.
Badge for Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry
of Southwestern Oil (Yuzhzapadneft), #609, 1946-48. Excellent
condition. The ministry was one of the shortest-lived: just
two years after its inception, it was absorbed into the larger
Ministry of Oil Industry of the USSR. Note the three-digit
serial number, extremely low even for this relatively scarce
badge.
Shock Worker of Stalin Labor Campaign badge, c. early to late-1950s. Late model
with bright nickel finish, thin screw post, and early-style "ShMZ-d" screw plate.
Superb condition.
See other Stalin era Railway Badges in our Soviet Railway Awards Section.
Medal of a Participant of the All-Union Agricultural
Exhibition, variation with pinback suspension, 1954-55 issue.
In very fine to excellent condition. Known under
the abbreviation VSKhV, this permanent exhibition in Moscow
later became the famous VDNKh (Exhibition of Achievements of
the National Economy of the USSR).
Soviet Badges: Labor Heroes and Shock-Workers , Volume 3 of the
series by Igor Sysolyatin. This deluxe 335-page hardcover includes most up-to-date
prices and is the most complete reference guide on the subject. Published in early
2022; unlike the first two volumes of the series, there were only 100 copies in
print. This superb book is an instant bibliographic rarity. Russian text.