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the whole set:

reverse (very hard to catch the s/n)

transportation card, pure cardboard, no plastic enveloppe...

supreme soviet of Belarus (this man was a former military officer)

revers badge

transportation card and avers:

supreme soviet card:

and avers ;)

and red flag (picked up in Paris via Poland)

reverse:

red star order, unattributed of course (my belief)

and revers:

merit 3rd class avers

So true and all credit to Paul. (And he also has a "day job".)

He has accomplished a very difficult thing: To publish a book when you know for certain that your presentation will be far, far less than 100%. This is a very difficult thing for any author to do. He has now introduced the field and brought (deluging) out of collection drawers and boxes the badges he does not present. Some day, a second (or third or . . . ?) edition . . . ?

The best we can do is share (as has been done in thsi thread) high-quality images of "NIS" badges.

I have the chance to belong one third of the badges presented in the book... I've got a looong work to complete the collection and I discovered lots of variations about suspensions, varnish, letterage colours... The same badge could be issued with "updated" supsensions following the celebration years (i.e. 30, 35, 40years and so on...). Regimental badges, and cold war badges (with only the v/tch. 5 digits numbers) seem to be a "black continent" to explore.

My friend Lapa saw hundreds of such badges in russian fairs. :speechless1:

It is a shame that Paul almost never comes here.

he surely lacks time to do this; let's play between collectors and he'll see the job later.

His book is a good milestone, and an pleasant tool.

But I've been told by one of the only french dealers who ventured in Russia in the early 90ies that a russian book existed about veterans badges; I never successed to gather any more infos about that... :(

Thanks for these!

I hope we'll find some of these enigmas! :jumping:

military okrug, Pribaltiskii? Heavy alloy, custom-made...

the big 3rd army badge:

sad thing. I loved the aestthetics of this monster (to understand, I live near Paris, and take some time to do a research about the Centre Pompidou conceived by renzo Piano and RIchard Rogers). And this is an historic error.

Other error, there's not real or significants pieces of the "death row", only pieces of wall for tourists photos...

and pure curiosity: very heavy and thick brass alloy:

again, a huge monster for the 19th division (3in, like the 57th army badge)

flashy colors, like the official proficiency badge...

ok, now here are known badges

for participation to the 1985 victory parade:

and last enigma... Podolsk military school?

a monster, huge (3inches) , nice, aluminium alloy... unknown unity.