Cockade on the cap of the vocational schools of communication of the 1944 model

An original and very rare cockade in excellent collector's condition. By Order of the Main Directorate of Labor Reserves No. 362 dated February 18, 1944, special badges for caps and armbands were introduced for specialized schools that trained personnel in certain industries. For specialized vocational schools of communication, the badge on the cap was a crossed hammer and a wrench superimposed on a bunch of zigzag arrows. It was made of light metal (steel, stamping, bronzing). The size is 22*25 mm. Guarantee of authenticity. It's rare.

The system of State Labor Reserves of the USSR, organized in 1940, adopted three types of vocational schools - vocational schools, railway schools, and factory training schools.

Handicraft and railway schools (2 years of study) trained skilled workers for industry, transport, communications, etc., and FZO schools (6 months) trained workers in mass professions for the coal, mining, metallurgical, oil industries, and construction organizations. Colleges and schools were recruited by conscription (mobilization), as well as due to the free admission of young people who graduated from 7-year—old secondary school, and schools of the Federal District - primary school. The students were provided with state support, and uniforms were introduced to them. The following signs were introduced to indicate the uniforms of students of craft and railway schools: badges for headdresses of students of craft and railway schools - metal intersecting hammer and wrench. Buttonholes on the collar of the greatcoat. Metal letters R.U. or J.U. and numbers indicating the number of the school are attached to the buttonholes. Dark blue piping on caps and buttonholes for students of vocational schools and crimson piping for students of railway schools. Metal buttons on overcoats for students of craft and railway schools with the image of an intersecting hammer and wrench. A white metal badge on the waist belt with the letters R.U. or J.The black color of the cloth for the greatcoat and cap. Black or blue is the color of a cotton tunic and cloth trousers (trousers are worn for graduation).

City chiefs. regional, regional and republican administrations were ordered to organize the production of these metal badges for the cap and the manufacture of armbands in order to provide them to the contingents of students by May 1, 1944.