Badge "Honorary railway worker" No. 2687

The original sign is in good collector's condition. Heavy metal, enamel. Small type of sign. Sign on the original spin of the artel "Vsekohudozhnik " in Moscow. The size is 22*33 mm. Weight without twist is 12.3 grams. Scaly chip on the banner.

On May 13, 1933, the CEC of the USSR established a professional award for awarding transport workers – the badge "Honorary Railway Worker". The badge "Honorary Railway Worker" was approved on May 15, 1934 by the People's Commissar of Railways A. A. Andreev, as the highest professional award of railway transport of the USSR. Since 1964, it became known not as a badge, but as a sign. NKPS Circular No. 89/TSOA of May 20, 1934 sent a regulation on the Railway Worker's Badge of Honor to the road network. According to the regulations, the Honorary Badge of a railway worker was issued to employees of the railways of the USSR for the following merits in railway transport: 

a) for preventing the collapse of trains, the destruction of transport structures, rolling stock, machinery and the rescue of victims of the crash; 

b) for exemplary performance of special impact works and tasks; 

c) for making technical improvements to the transport business; 

d) for exemplary work, which resulted in technical and economic achievements in transport; 

e) for inventive activity; 

(e) For services to research in the field of transport.

The badge is issued by the decision of the Central Award Commission of the NKPS both at the request of the direct heads of the represented, and party, professional and other public organizations in transport at their place of work. A railway employee who has received the badge of Honorary Railway Worker should serve as an example of exemplary performance of their duties. The badge is worn on the left side of the chest. Those who have the badge of an Honorary Railway Worker, both working in transport, and those who have left it due to the transition to another job or social security, are granted the right to: 

a) status of members of the railway clubs; 

b) maintenance of living space in buildings under the jurisdiction of the people's Commissariat; 

c) unhindered entrance to the platforms and passage along the station tracks, where no special passes are required.

Honorary railway workers had the right to travel free of charge on the USSR railway network in soft cars. They retained the right to wear uniform after finishing work on transport and receiving uniforms on the same grounds as all railway transport workers.

The right to award the badge "Honorary Railway Worker" belonged to the People's Commissar of Railways. A sample of 1978. Legally, this was fixed in the fourth section of the Charter on the Discipline of Railway transport Workers "Differences on the labor front and incentive measures". The Badge No. 1 was awarded on October 31, 1934 to the train dispatcher of the Grozny branch Kutafin S. V., for advanced methods of train movement. The order of the People's Commissar of Railways said: "The method of S. V. Kutafin is to spread. For the socialist attitude to work, award T. Kutafin with the badge "Honorary Railway Worker". Publish a mass-circulation brochure on the experience and methods of its work. Issue t. Kutafin has a full set of uniforms and a bonus in the amount of 600 rubles." Kutafin later worked as an inspector for dispatching work of the NKPS, head of the Southern and Moscow-Kursk railways, Hero of Socialist Labor (6.11.1943), General Director of the movement of the 2nd rank. The badge "Honorary Railway Worker" No. 1 and the certificate to it, signed personally by the People's Commissar A. A. Andreev, were kept in the Central Museum of the Revolution of the USSR in Moscow. On the reverse of the sign on the plate is the inscription: "Comrade. Kutafin S. V. for the socialist attitude to labor 1D. N. K. N. K. P. S." and the date of the award. The badge is "small" in size (22 x 33 mm), made of 916 silver. The miscellaneous parts - locomotive, banner, ribbon, wheat ears, star gold. 

 July 21, 1960, a panel of MPs found it necessary to revise the regulations on badge "Honourable railwayman" and develop a new sample icon. Transport in technical development has gone far ahead, the symbolism on the obverse of the icon did not reflect the changes that have occurred. One of the variants of the new model of the badge was prepared by V. Skorokhod, an employee of the Central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with many years of experience. It was the model of a professional railway worker that was approved by the board. Instead of a steam locomotive, an electric locomotive is placed on the front part. Changed the attachment of the badge to clothing, it was worn on a rectangular pad. The first version of this sign was on an enamel pad, but it did not go into mass production. And the last option became mass! The signs of the suspended type have a continuous numbering, they began with 112 thousand and ended with about 183 thousand numbers. The signs of the suspended type have many varieties, but they relate only to the reverse of the signs, or rather the method of drawing numbers and the location of the brands of the LMD. These badges were also awarded to citizens of other states, but very rarely. After the collapse of the USSR, the Skorokhodovsky badge of the USSR ceased to exist, but due to its importance, some CIS states established a single sign of the new model, while maintaining the numbering of the Soviet sign!