Helmet Komsomol regiment fire of the defence of Leningrad

Extremely rare helmet, which consisted on the supply of the Komsomol regiment fire the defense of Leningrad. Iron, paint. Original liner. The personnel of the regiment was in barracks, and obey the fire Department of the NKVD of Leningrad. The vast majority of photographs of the siege of Leningrad fighters with this type of helmets by young people — pupils and students of the first courses institutes schools. We can assume that helmets that were produced in large number (the regiment consisted of 1600 employees and sales of such helmets on the Internet is almost absent). Most likely, the helmet was produced according to the technology of manufacturing fire helmets pattern in 1927, but in a simplified form. Komsomol regiment fire protection was created in August 1941 by the decision of the Leningrad GC Komsomol, in accordance with the resolution of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of 17 July 1941 on the organization of cities in war zone Komsomol fire formations. Staffed by members of the Komsomol, workers, employees, students, pupils of the senior classes. Consisted of 15 mouth and 3 separate platoons (in the number of districts in the city and suburbs: Pushkin, Kronstadt, Peterhof), consisted of 1,600 people (July 1942-950 people). Units of the regiment participated in the protection of the Smolny Institute, Tavrichesky Palace, the food warehouses of the Leningrad city Council and others important objects. The soldiers of the regiment created a 130 fire units in households resulted in the order of more than 1 thousand of bomb shelters, equipped with 580 protective slits, has spent thousands of instructional classes with the population against the consequences of air raids and shelling. In March 1943 the personnel of the regiment are directed for logging in Tikhvin district of Leningrad region. In August 1943 the regiment was disbanded. The guarantee of authenticity.