Color Book Catalog Order of the Red Banner USSR (224 Pages)

Description

This publication is the second book in the series "Encyclopedia of Soviet Awards" (the first book - V.A. Durov "The Order of Lenin" - was published in 2005), entirely devoted to the detailed history of one of the Soviet orders, in this case the Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR and USSR.
Here, for the first time in Russian historiography, the history of the establishment of the award, the development of the design of the order badge and its evolution, and production issues related to the manufacture of badges of the order are described. With sufficient completeness, it is said about the awards and about the awarded.
A special section is devoted to the actual classification of the signs of the Order of the Red Banner of various periods, which takes into account almost all, even the smallest, of their varieties.
The Appendix contains written acts - decrees, regulations on the Order of different periods, technical documentation, etc., which are directly related to the Order of the Red Banner.
Numerous illustrations and statistical tables help the perception of the material.
The material monuments used in the work are stored in national museums - the State Historical Museum, the Goznak Museum, the Museum of Uniforms of the Russian, Soviet and Foreign Armies of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Central Museum of the Navy (St. Petersburg), and also in private collections, mainly in Ukraine, Germany, USA and Canada.
The archival materials used are stored in the State Archives of the Russian Federation, the Department of Written Sources of the State Historical Museum, in the archives of the Great Patriotic War (Podolsk), in the archives of Goznak and in the archives of the St. Petersburg Mint.
The authors express their sincere and deep gratitude to all the employees of the above-mentioned state institutions who helped us with the work on the book, as well as to O. Derevyanko, V. Krivtsov, A. Kuznetsov and I. Pak.
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