Badge "Excellent signalman"

Original sign in great collectable condition. Tombac, enamel, gilding. Sign "Great Communicator" is a shield shaped body, which is superimposed on a wreath of oak leaves entwined with ribbon. Around the perimeter of the awards goes to a thin strip, and in the upper part of the shield is crimped decoration. Inside the badge there are two elements – a red medallion with a hammer and sickle at the top and the image of the star in the frame of the radio signals of lightnings, diverging in different directions. On the reverse side of the badge has a threaded shaft with a nut to attach mark clothing. The original twist in the kit. The guarantee of authenticity.

Signs standouts in the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union was an effective measure of moral incentives for military personnel, effective way of raising morale and love for the country. Handing out the awards, the Soviet government recognized the merit of the red army, which was indeed the objective. The practice of awarding lapel badges made a significant contribution to the development of domestic faleristics. For years of existence of the Soviet state there were so many different awards for various types of troops that the brief descriptions will need impressive encyclopedic volume. The Soviet army, or red army, were formed simultaneously with the appearance of the new state. Before the authorities at the time was the global task of building a Communist society sample in accordance with the principles of Marxist-Leninist philosophy. The economy was in a depressed position, exhausted. For the protection of the state and creation of favorable conditions for economic development needed an army, and the army – worthy fighters whose actions were encouraged, at least morally.

Badge "Excellent signalman" established by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 3, 1943. Sign (icon) was awarded to persons of ordinary and younger commanding structure of red Army, Navy and NKVD troops, systematically showing the highest examples of: excellent knowledge of the substantive parts of communications equipment and skilled, enthusiastic of using it in battle; quick entry into the communication, transmission and reception of telegrams and radiograms, to compliance with the rules of the station and maintenance services; personal masking, masking material part of the radio and Telegraph-telephone stations; savings personal weapons and property relations in all combat conditions; excellent discipline and strict observance of military secrets; successful assignments for quick communication, exceeding standards for the construction of communication lines, equipment units, repair the damage.