Soviet Some Nice Soviet Eye Candy I Recently Acquired

[Paul L Murphy]

I was able to purchase a large collection of Soviet badges recently at a very good price. I am disposing of the stuff that does not fit into my collection on ebay and keeping all the really nice pieces. Here are some pics for your enjoyment of the really nice stuff. The cultural related pieces such as People's Artist of the USSR have already been posted in another thread.

First up a nice badge for the 24th Congress of the Communist Party. I do like these, but not at the prices they seem to fetch normally these days !

Next up, the 25th Congress of the Communist Party.

Next up is the badge given to VIPs invited to the Kremlin to attend the celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of the Revolution.

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Next up is a super rare badge. It is a membership badge from 1923-24 for a voluntary committee that assisted war invalids.

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[Paul L Murphy]

Now to aviation, I was able to get two versions of the 1 million KM safe flying badge. The first is from the 1930s and the second is from the 1960s.

From one type of transport to another, this is for delegates to a congress of railway workers held in Moscow.

[Paul L Murphy]

Next up a selection of Excellent Workers & Winners in Socialst Competition badges. The numbered piece for the Merchant Fleet is particularly hard to find.

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[Paul L Murphy]

More of the same ...... but different.

Followed on by the badge that was brought out to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the death of Lenin.

Not sure on exactly what the next one is but it relates to the oil and gas industry.

Where would we be without a few Udarnik badges so here are two nice ones, a Stalin era piece and a more recent example.

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[Paul L Murphy]

This is one of the nicer Soviet Red Cross badges that I have seen. It is numbered on the reverse.

Now for some of the nicest items in the collection. First up is a 3rd class State Prize Medal.

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Closely followed by a nice example of the last type of Soviet State Prize Medal, and from the high number it was one of th elast awarded as well.

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[Paul L Murphy]

Moving to the military and police side of things, this was in the collection. The best suggestion I have had so far is that it is a privately made version of the M36 aviation graduate badge. All other suggestions are welcome. It is well made and appears to be silver.

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I have got very few Border Guard pieces but this is the latest addition to my small collection. It is for the 50th anniversary of the Border Guards.

This next one is for service on the supply convoys however it is made from solid silver and is of far better quality than the usual veterans badges that one sees.

Next up is a badge that I have wanted to get for a long time, the Khasan badge for the fighting against Japan near Khasan on the China Mongolia border.

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[Paul L Murphy]

This is a nice 2nd class sports parachutist badge from the 1950s.

And I have no idea what this is, it seems to be some sort of crew made badge rather than an official item. A dembel badge for a submariner perhaps ?

I hope you enjoyed these. I will not say how much they all cost since you will want to fly over to London and stick pencils into my eyeballs out of jealousy ! :lol:

[Komandir RKKA]

"Not sure on exactly what the next one is but it relates to the oil and gas industry."

It is the early postwar badge of Azerbaijan State Oil and Chemistry Institute (number one in former USSR) in Baku.

[Eric Gaumann]

Man, nice stuff there Paul. I especially like the para badge and the Merchant fleet badge.