Soviet Badge/Jeton identification please

[Bryan]

Any idea what the guy on the right side is wearing? I'm not familiar with this.

[HuliganRS]

He's wearing an early GTO (Gotov k Trudu e Oborony - Ready for Work and Defense) badge.

I'll post some pics after I get home.

Rusty.

[Danny]

Here is an image from a variation circa 1932-1936 with a serial number. There were numerous variations of this badge. This particular one is quite pricey.

Ref: Badges of the Defensive Societies of the USSR

[Chuck In Oregon]

I have several variations of this badge, with hangers and with pins, but not the one that Danny shows. I think it is pretty hard to find that one.

This CCCP - Second Step variant, silver and numbered, is also hard to find and the only example I ever came across "in the wild".

Chuck

[HuliganRS]

Here's mine:

Front:

[HuliganRS]

Here's the reverse:

[Bryan]

Anyone is able to translate the picture please?

[Christophe]

He's wearing an early GTO (Gotov k Trudu e Oborony - Ready for Work and Defense) badge.

I'll post some pics after I get home.

Rusty.

Bryan,

Done by Rusty... Isn't it ?

Cheers.

Ch.

[Ed_Haynes]

Vatslav Bronislavovich Lavrinovich (http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2326) had one too, but I'm not sure that the badge (a duplicate issue) that came with the group is his. His 1934 certificate.

Will post the badge when I drag it home post-weekend.

Edited November 25, 2005 by Ed_Haynes

[Chris S]

This is an example I have

Chris

[Chris S]

The back

[HuliganRS]

Here's what the back of the photo says:

Bulantevich, M. A.

Beggining of service in Red Army kursant of artilary school.

Rusty.

[Christophe]

Here's what the back of the photo says:

Bulantevich, M. A.

Beggining of service in Red Army kursant of artilary school.

Rusty.

Ooops !!

Sorry Bryan, because of the large format of the pic you posted, I had not seen on my screen there is a back posted...

Cheers.

Ch.

[Dudeman]

Anyone is able to translate the picture please?

Obverse reads "Ready for Labor and Defense"

Reverse "Mondvor" -- "Mint" where medals are struck

[Christophe]

Obverse reads "Ready for Labor and Defense"

Reverse "Mondvor" -- "Mint" where medals are struck

Hi Dudeman,

Ha, ha!!! You are making the same "mistake" I made ... Bryan is talking about the caption at the back of the pic in post #1.

Cheers.

Ch.

[Ed_Haynes]

Not sure how anyone can post a picture that size, given the severe size limitations in place.

[Christophe]

Yes, hence the mistake... In fact, the pic seems extremely compressed...

Ch.

Edited November 26, 2005 by Christophe

[Dudeman]

Hi Dudeman,

Ha, ha!!! You are making the same "mistake" I made ... Bryan is talking about the caption at the back of the pic in post #1.

Cheers.

Ch.

Oh, now I get it. I was never accused of being the brightest light bulb.

[Danny]

Would these badges have been awarded for passing a course? Like basic training?

[HuliganRS]

Yes, You had to pass the GTO course.

Rusty.

[Guest Rick Research]

I didn't realize there were TWO scans combined in the first post either: one on top of the other we'd have seen it right away. Didn't think to LOOK "off monitor screen."

Since the whole thing takes up less than 35KB of space, there are obviously technical skills involved far beyond my understanding!

I'm just glad all this is in color and not black and white like television was until I was in college!

[Bryan]

Thank you Rusty for the traduction!

Here is an other pictures of man with Budyonovkas and one with a GTO badge.

Edited December 1, 2005 by Soviet

[Danny]

Would the other badge be a Voroshilov marksman badge? I can't tell....

[Chuck In Oregon]

Would the other badge be a Voroshilov marksman badge? I can't tell....

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That's what it looks like to me.