Badge of Honor to the railroad worker No. 25899

Bronze, enamel, nickel plating. Satisfactory collector's condition. The twist is included. Guaranteed original.

On May 13, 1933, the Central Executive Committee of the USSR established a professional award for awarding transport workers – the badge "Honorary Railway Worker". The badge "To the Honorary railway worker" was approved on May 15, 1934. People's Commissar of Railways A.A. Andreev, as the highest professional award of railway transport of the USSR. Since 1964, it has been referred to not as an icon, but as a sign. The NKPS Circular No. 89/TSOA dated May 20, 1934 sent a provision on the Honorary Badge of a railway worker to the road network. By 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 the prevention of train wrecks, the destruction of transport facilities, rolling stock, machinery and the rescue of victims of the crash; 

b) for exemplary performance of special impact work and assignments; 

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; 

f) for services to scientific research in the field of transport.

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

a) status of members of railway clubs; 

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

c) unhindered entry onto platforms and passage along 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 wagons. They retained the right to wear 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. The 1978 sample. This was legally fixed in the fourth section of the Charter on the Discipline of Railway Transport Workers, "Differences on the labor front and incentive measures." S.V. Kutafin, train dispatcher of the Grozny branch, was awarded the badge No. 1 on October 31, 1934, for advanced train movement methods. The order of the People's Commissar of Railways stated: "S.V. Kutafin's method is to spread. For the socialist attitude to work, to reward T. Kutafina with the badge of "Honorary railway worker". To publish a mass-circulation brochure on his experience and methods of work. Issue a t. Kutafin will receive a full set of uniforms and a bonus of 600 rubles." Kutafin subsequently 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), Director General of the movement of the 2nd rank. The badge of the "Honorary Railwayman" No. 1 and its certificate, signed personally by People's Commissar A.A. Andreev, were kept in the Central Museum of the USSR Revolution in Moscow. On the reverse of the sign on the plate is the inscription: "Comrade. Kutafin S.V. for the socialist attitude to work 1st class. N.K. N.K.P.S." and the date of the award. The badge is "small" (22 x 33 mm), made of 916 silver. The overhead parts - the locomotive, the banner, the ribbon, the ears, the 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 of the "Honorary Railway Worker" and develop a new badge model. Transport has gone far ahead in technical development, the symbolism on the obverse of the badge did not reflect the changes that had taken place. One of the variants of the new 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 sample of a professional railway worker that was approved by the board. Instead of a steam locomotive, an electric locomotive is placed on the front. The badge's attachment to clothing has been changed, and it is now worn on a rectangular shoe. The first version of this sign was on an enamel block, but it did not go into mass production. And the last option has become widespread! The signs of the suspended type have retained the end-to-end numbering, they started with 112 thousand and ended with about 183 thousand numbers. There are many varieties of suspension type signs, but they relate only to the reverse of the signs, or rather, the method of applying numbers and the location of the LMD stamps. These badges were also awarded to citizens of other countries, but very rarely. After the collapse of the USSR, the USSR badge of the Skorokhodovsky pattern ceased to exist, but due to its importance, some CIS states established a single badge of a new pattern, while retaining the numbering of the Soviet sign!