Soviet Arkady Renko's "Polar Star" Badge

[Ulsterman]

Rick and I went to a fair a long while back and I got a set of these. But the question is... what are they?

Can anyone help?

I suspect they are either dock workers long service badges-or merchant marine long service badges, but they aren't in my book.

Thanks!

[Ulsterman]

Hmmmm... must be very boring as nobody commented on it. Well, can anyone be so kind as to at least provide and rough-n-dirty translation of what it says?

Ta!

QS

[Guest Rick Research]

It's all in the TITLE (changed... lessee what happens NOW )

BTW, didn't you get the SET?

Min of Fish Ind SSSR

For Work Without Accidents

"20" being YEARS, though I can't imagine factory-fishing without accidents for 20 MINUTES!

[Ulsterman]

Thanks Rick! Ministry of Fish huh? I remember seeing those enormous trawlers off the coast in the 1980s.

Yup- I got the set: "for destroying world cod stocks"....

[Guest Rick Research]

Scraped our seabed down to the bedrock, laughing out at our 3-mile limit. And the Bears are back overhead again. All we need now is a revival of the Cult of Brezhnev!

So show everybody the whole (?) set!