Soviet HERO CITIES OF THE SOVIET UNION BADGES

[Kev in Deva]

Hallo Gents

I picked up these 7 badges at the Collectors Fair in Deva today 23 June 2007.

I am presuming they are from the Communist period but if I am mistaken please feel free to move to the corect

area of the site.

Larger pictures of the individual badges to follow, they are made of aluminum.

Kevin in Deva.

[Alfred]

Hello Kevin ,

nice badges. On ebay you see them also sometimes.

12 cities and the fortress Brest-Litowsk got during the soviet period the title Hero City (list below).

- Moskau

- Kiev

- Leningrad (St. Petersburg)

- Stalingrad (Wolgograd)

- Minsk

- Odessa

- Sewastopol

- Noworossisk

- Kertsch

- Tula

- Murmansk

- Smolensk

- Brest-Litowsk (fortress)

regards

Andreas

[Kev in Deva]

Hallo Andreas,

thanks for the list and information.

Here are some close ups of the badges:

Moscow- Moskau.

Kevin in Deva

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[Kev in Deva]

- Sebastopol.

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[Kev in Deva]

If anybody can identify correctly the names of the cities = to post number, please PM them to me and I will then apply them correctly to the correct pictures!!

- Noworossisk

Kevin in Deva

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[Kev in Deva]

- Volgograd - Stalingrad.

Kevin in Deva

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[Kev in Deva]

- Minsk.

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[Kev in Deva]

- Kertsch.

Kevin in Deva

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[Kev in Deva]

Leningrad - St. Petersburg.

Kevin in Deva

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[Kev in Deva]

The rear of the badges, a very simple pin attachment.

Kevin in Deva.

[Christophe]

Kevin,

Here are the names of the badges, in the order you posted them :

- Moskau

- Sebastopol (and not Stalingrad)

- Noworossisk

- Volgograd (Stalingrad)

- Minsk

- Kertsch

- Leningrad (St. Petersburg)

These are nice badges!!

Cheers.

[Ed_Haynes]

Nice ones!

The use of Leningrad (and not "St. Petersburg") and of "Volograd" (and not Stalingrad) suggests a date period for these lovelies?

[Kev in Deva]

Many thanks Christophe

For the translations of the names, seems like I only have to locate

5 more badges

Kevin in Deva

[speedytop]

Hi,

you can find these and other badges in the 60s, 70s and 80s in the Sovietunion in large quantities for some cent. Mostly you can find the original price on the reverse, e.g. 10K, 15K or 25K; 10, 15 or 25 kopeck.

Kevin, here are some more, but not all, and two of them with a different design. The Odessa badge is with a makers mark and the price = 10K

Edited June 24, 2007 by speedytop

[speedytop]

There are many of these badges with one ore more decorations on it.

Here are out of my small collection of those badges the badges for the hero city Minsk:

Regards

Uwe

[Kev in Deva]

Hallo Speedytop

many thanks for the info and pictures, especially some of the ones

missing from my set.

I believe there were 16 locations that were awarded the designation "Hero Cities" so I

think it would be correct to take that figure as a "set"??

Kevin in Deva

[Kev in Deva]

Hallo Gents,

over the weekend I managed to locate 2 more of these badges

for Soviet Hero Cities.

Kevin in Deva

[Belaruski]

Here's a couple of different Brest Fortress badges. 35, 15 &25 Kopeks!