Badge "Drummer MVS"

The original sign is in excellent condition. Icon drummer of the canal Moscow-Volga "the Drummer MVS". Steel, copper, enamel. The weight of 9.22 g. Size 39,9*30,3 mm. are rare. The guarantee of authenticity.

The channel name of Moscow (abbreviated Kim, until 1947 — channel Moscow — Volga in the name of I. V. Stalin) — connects the Moscow river with the Volga. Is located in the Moscow and Tver regions of Russia, partly flows through the city of Moscow. Length is 128 km, the Width of the channel at the surface and 85 m at the bottom to 45 m, depth — 5.5 m. Gives Moscow more than 60 % of the total consumption of drinking and industrial water. The water level on the Volga in the intake channel 124, after Karamyshevskaya dam on the Moscow river is 126 m, the highest plot in 162,1 m is between Iksha and Khimki.

By the beginning of 1930-ies in Moscow because of the growth of the population started to affect the shortage of drinking and industrial water, because the bandwidth Rublevsky water does not meet the needs of the capital in water. On June (15 June 1931) Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b), on the report of L. M. Kaganovich on the status of water in the capital and other cities for the Moscow water supply, as well as for transport purposes, it was decided to use the resources of the Volga, flowing 120 kilometers North of the capital.

During the construction of the canal was used the labor of prisoners — September 14, 1932 for the construction of the canal was created "Dmitlag", which lasted more than five years. In hospitals, doctors recorded the death 22842 person, moreover, people have died in workplaces or have been shot. In memory of people who died from the severe conditions, the track channel in 1997 on the sixtieth anniversary of the building was installed a Memorial cross. 4 June 1934 — Stalin, Kaganovich, Yagoda, Kuibyshev and Voroshilov visited the 7th and 8th gateways (in the village of Tushino), the Khimki dam and Deep hollow. In September 1934 work was completed on the 1st kilometer of the experienced channel between Dmitrov and Yakhroma. 14 June 1936 — the day of the publication of the draft of the Stalin Constitution — Stalin visited Perervinsky gateway. 17 April 1937 — filling with water of the entire route of the canal Moscow — Volga named after Stalin. In the autumn of 1941 the canal was the front line. In 1947, in connection with the 800th anniversary of Moscow — Stalin renamed the "a" channel in honor of the capital.