Badge of the" Honorary Railway worker " No. 13468

An original and rather rare sign in very good collector's condition. Bronze, enamel, silvering. The twist is included. Guarantee of authenticity.

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 the USSR railway transport. Since 1964, it has been called not a badge, but a sign. NCPS Circular No. 89 / TSOA of May 20, 1934 sent the regulation on the Railway Worker's Badge of Honor to the road network. According to the position, the Honorary badge of a railway worker was issued to employees of the railways of the USSR for the following services 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 work 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 worker who has received the badge of an 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 left it due to switching to another job or social security, are granted the right to: 

a) being members of railway clubs; 

b) preservation of living space in houses under the jurisdiction of the NKPS; 

c) unhindered access 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 uniforms 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. Sample of 1978. Legally, this was enshrined 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, S. V. Kutafin, 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 it. For the socialist attitude to work, to reward vol. Kutafina badge "Honorary railway worker". Publish a mass-circulation brochure on the experience and methods of its work. Issue t. Kutafin received a full set of uniform uniforms and a bonus 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" To the Honorary Railway worker " No. 1 and the certificate to it, signed personally by the People's Commissar A. A. Andreev, was 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. Kutafinu 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. Overhead parts - a locomotive, a banner, a ribbon, ears of corn, an asterisk-are gold. 

 On July 21, 1960, the Board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs recognized the need to revise the Regulations on the badge "Honorary Railway Worker" and develop a new model of the badge. Transport in technical development went far ahead, the symbolism on the obverse of the icon did not reflect the changes that had 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 the clothes, 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 has become massive! The signs of the suspended type have a continuous numbering, they began with 112 thousand and ended approximately in the numbers of 183 thousand. 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 USSR badge of the Skorokhodovsky model ceased to exist, but due to its importance, some CIS states established a single sign of the new model, while retaining the numbering of the Soviet sign!