Membership badge of the DSO "Neftyanik"

The original membership badge of the Neftyanik Voluntary Sports Society is in excellent condition. The Neftyanik Sports Union was established in 1936 as a sports society of the professional union of workers of the oil fields and the oil refining industry of the Caucasus. This logo was also used by the Neftchi football club (Baku), which in Soviet times (until the mid-1960s) was called Neftyanik. The emblem includes a stylized letter "H", inside which an oil rig is depicted. The sign is topped with a red five-pointed star. The sign is made of heavy metal using hot enamel. Guarantee of authenticity.

Voluntary sports societies (DSOs) are sports organizations in the USSR and socialist countries created on the basis of a territorial (in the Union republics) or industrial-sectoral feature to unite citizens involved in physical education, sports and tourism in order to solve the problems of developing mass physical culture, sports and tourism, as well as training athletes "Ready for work and defense of the USSR", "Tourist of the USSR", athletes, dischargers, masters of sports and improving the skills of athletes, acted on the basis of the principles of broad self-activity in accordance with the approved charters of the DSO, through their primary organizations, youth sports schools (youth sports schools), as well as sports clubs united physical culture collectives of districts, regions, republics, enterprises, institutions, educational institutions, organizations, one or more branches of the national economy, etc