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Manufacturers There were several manufacturers. The main manufacturer was Leningrad Mint. 44 806 pieces were minted in 1940 and another 104 300 pieces in 1941. Official cost of one piece was 7 rubles 18 kopecks. In toto 149 106 pieces was made by July 1941. After the start of war production (not awardings!) was halted and never resumed.

This badge was introduced by SNK USSR decree # 1889 on November 14, 1939. Badge was awarded to servicemen of the Red Army (soldiers, students of military schools and officers) for excellent combat and political training, service and discipline. The first 200 badges were awarded on May 1940 to the servicemen of division named after Dzerzhinsky. How many of them are out there? Somewhere between 200 000 and 250 000 pieces

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Another cavalier His name Antuhin Vladimir Vasilievich. It is said that this badge he got for capturing Moscow Kremlin in 1917

The minimal asking price for this badge was $40000 "Buy it now" price .. $50000

Screw-nut

Obviously this is not silver

The first and only time I saw this badge on sale it was two years ago. Here we have “live” pictures of this badge

Date of introduction is not known (presumably early 30s) … Total quantity of minted badges is not known … Manufacturers are not known ….

Contrary to Averse this piece is obviously made in bronze

One known piece is currently in the collection of Bolhove Museum) It belonged to P.F. Efremov

Here it is

+ A photo of an unknown cavalier

Not much info either

Practically unknown … Quasi rare… And these terms are not exaggerations … For example all we have from Avers #8 is this “nice” colored picture

Another photo

Konstantin Vikentievich Hruzkiy Participant of R-T war of 1877-1878 This photo was made in 1963 when he was 112 years old!!! He died 4 years later....

Additional photos of Trubnikov

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