Badge Of Honour.

[CtahhR]

The 4th March 1980 Ukazes were for Agricultural workers - No mention of plans or competitions, so possibly long service.

Here is the booklet for #271916. Awarded to Efim Matveevich Kolomytsev on 11th April 1958 "For outstanding achievements in the development of agriculture and the pursuit of excellence for the production of grains, sugar beet, meat, milk and other agricultural products."

Kolomytsev was born in 1914 and had been a Captain, commanding an artillery battery and awarded the Order Aleksandr Nevskij twice (1944 and 1945) and Patriotic War II (1944) after recovering from being heavily wounded in 1941 and lightly wounded in 1943.

[Bill Garvy]

Order of the Badge of Honor, flat-back, Serial #169522

[Bill Garvy]

Order of the Badge of Honor, Serial #181874

[CtahhR]

Here is #1015619. The number is rather difficult to read given the mess on the reverse.

[CtahhR]

Here is #1076944.

I believe I am at a crux when it comes to researching these. Results should be evident within the month.

If they do turn out to be researchable, I will offer that service to any forum members who have nurtured a good relationship with me over the years (i.e. those I am already doing research for). I'm certainly not in to researching for profit (as can be seen by the rock bottom prices I charge). The reward for me is the spread of information.

[Jumpmaster]

Screwback version in my collection

[desantnik]

Screwback version in my collection

Nice piece! From my data base, another in this range was awarded May '45.

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Order Book (#049612) dated April 13th, 1940 for the Badge of Honor (#11419) awarded to Iraida Mikhailovna Stepanovna on December 1st, 1939.

О награждении работников Кировской железной дороги.
За выдающиеся успехи в деле подъема железнодорожного транспорта и проявленные образцы социалистического труда наградить работников Кировской дороги:

14. Степанову Ираиду Михайловну — телеграфистку Хвойнинской дистанции сигнализации и связи, Кировской дороги.

Председатель Президиума Верховного Совета СССР М. КАЛИНИН.
Секретарь Президиума Верховного Совета СССР А. ГОРКИН.
Москва, Кремль. 23 ноября 1939 г.

About rewarding workers of the Kirov railway.
For outstanding successes in raising railway transport and for the demonstrated examples of socialist labor to reward the workers of the Kirov railway:

14. Stepanova Iraida Mikhailovna - telegraph operator at Khvoininskaya signaling and communication distance, Kirovskaya road.

Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR M. KALININ.
Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR A. GORKIN.
Moscow Kremlin. November 23, 1939
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