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A little info about this badge Badges for 1 000 000 km Trouble-Free Milage of Locomotive and 500 000 km Trouble-Free Milage of Locomotive were introduced by Ministry of Railway Transport order #29ц on July 18, 1985. Original order МИНИСТЕРСТВО ПУТЕЙ СООБЩЕНИЯ СССР ------------------------------------------------------------------ 18 июля 1985 г. N 29Ц ПРИКАЗ О введении нагрудных значков "За безаварийный пробег на локомотиве 1000000 км" и "За безаварийный пробег на локомотиве 500000 км" (извлечение) В целях повышения активности локомотивных бригад за гарантированное обеспечение должностных обязанностей, престижности профессии машиниста и помощника машиниста локомотивов ПРИКАЗЫВАЮ: 1. Ввести нагрудные значки "За безаварийный пробег на локомотиве 1000000 км" и "За безаварийный пробег на локомотиве 500000 км". 2. Утвердить Положение о нагрудных значках "За безаварийный пробег на локомотиве 1000000 км" и "За безаварийный пробег на локомотиве 500000 км" (приложение N 1) и описание (приложение N 2). 3. Начальнику Главного управления локомотивного хозяйства, начальнику Управления кадров, начальнику Хозяйственного управления разместить заказ на изготовление необходимого количества значков "За безаварийный пробег на локомотиве 1000000 км", "За безаварийный пробег на локомотиве 500000 км" и бланков удостоверений к ним. Министр

Fair price (in Russia ) for 1 000 000 km Trouble-Free Milage of Locomotive will be around $20. For doc about the same. Together $40-50

"Old comrades among themselves" ... "Outsiders" ... God save you dear insider!

Sounds like another task for superman :whistle:

Nice badges Eric! P.S. Should find and post mine (didn't see them for centuries - literally )

Mesmerizing thread ...

It certainly was Nice early war piece ...

I believe that entry from 12.05.46 refers to him as Guards private of 104th Guards airborn division Under "104th Guards airborn division" we see "okr. (i.e. okrug/district) MGB. More about 104th division and structure of soviet-russian airborne troops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Airborne_Troops He was demobilize on March (?) 18, 1947.

Yep, but unfortunately there is no distinguished boundary ... 450ххх-490xxx is "never know for sure" diapason

Not only lists

They don't call you research for nothing

Additional info about russian postmarks during WWI can be found in this article O.Farafontov, P.Florenskiy. "Postmarks of WWI". "Philately of USSR", 1971, №7, pp. 41-42 / О. Форафонтов, П. Флоренский. "Почтовые штемпеля первой мировой войны". "Филателия СССР", 1971, №7, стр. 41-42 Full-text of this article (in russian) http://stampsportal.ru/great-russia-stamps/russian-empire/mail/postmarks/829-pochtovye-shtempelya-pervoj-mirovoj-vojny

Blue one reads "From front-line forces" It was used between 1914 and 1917. All letters from army to Empire were free of charge. During official registration of letter these stamps were used to indicate that "From front-line forces" can be in purple, blue or red ink. Of course there were unit stamps in Russian Imperial Army during WWI. Actually around 20 000 of such stamps!

Issued somewhere around December 1943. This one belongs to pentagonal bar ;)

Nice to hear that!

Carrot!

"no longer with GMIC" As far as I know Ed is still alive :whistle:

Hi Tod, long time no hear! These two photos were recently sold on eBay. I will send you originals in a couple of days. Cheers, Nick

Second badge

Luckily GTO badge was numbered According to archive of "Dynamo" sport society badge 50405 was issued to Loshkarev Konstantin Pavlovich ...

In 2006 on the riverside of Ressa search group found remains of soviet soldier. Next to him were found two german cartridge pouches full of 7,62-54 bullets, silencer “bramit” and two badges GTO 2nd class and “To participant of All-USSR athletes' parade of 1939”.

Most likely it was 280 infantry division of Wehrmacht

Most likely he was killed in action (together with his comrades) June 30, 1942 shortly after crossing river Ressa on his way back ... Here you can see the place where he died

Dependants certificate