Description text: The original description and color drawing of the sleeve insignia from the appendix to the original order No. 0528 are dated June 26, 1942 and are certified by the signatures of the Deputy Chief of Artillery of the Red Army for formations, Major General of Artillery B.I. Sheremetov and the military commissar of GUNART, brigade commissar I.S. Strong.

1. The sleeve insignia for the personnel of anti-tank artillery units is a rhombus with an artillery emblem in the center.

2. Dimensions of the sleeve insignia: rhombus side length - 5.4cm, diagonal rhombus width - 6cm, diagonal rhombus length - 9cm, edging width - 3mm, gun body length - 4cm, width: at the bottom - 7mm and at the top - 4mm.

3. The sleeve sign is made of black cloth and edged with red cloth. The artillery emblem is embroidered on the badge: for command personnel in gold, for junior and rank-and-file personnel in yellow twisted silk.

4. The sleeve sign is sewn on the left sleeve of the shirt and overcoat above the elbow by one third of the sleeve.

From the description it follows that, according to the idea of ​​GUNART, the IPTA sign should appear in two varieties: for the command personnel (officers) and for the rest. However, we can safely say that in the period from the moment of signing the order No. 0528 and until the moment the 22nd copy was handed over to the printing house of the NCO, the number of variants of the sign managed to be reduced to one. In the typographical version of the order, published in a circulation of 24 thousand copies (and sent to all military units up to a separate battalion), paragraph 3 of the description already looks like this:

3. The sleeve sign is made of black cloth and edged with red cloth. The artillery emblem on the badge is embroidered with golden natural silk.

Thus, the final version of the document establishes a single sample of the mark, excluding the version with gold embroidery. Apparently, this was the result of J.V. Stalin's oral instructions, which completely coincided in spirit with the pencil correction of clause 7 of the draft order (where bonuses were reduced).

The next day after copy No. 19 of the order to the secret part of the Main Quartermaster Directorate of the Red Army (SMI), the masters of the Military Sewing Workshop of the Clothing Supply Directorate have already made a sample of the IPTA sleeve insignia. Manufacturing proceeded in accordance with the revised text of the description and instructions of the SMI Technical Committee: the emblem on the badge was embroidered with golden twisted silk.

On July 3, 1942, the chairman of the Technical Committee, Colonel of the quartermaster service (s) S.V. Aginsky approved the finished sample and signed the technical documentation for it. This was followed by a presentation to the generals: the Chief Quartermaster of the Red Army, Major General and / s P.I. Drachev (for approval), as well as Major General of Artillery B.I. Sheremetov (who arrived from GUNART together with the brigade commissar I.S. Prochko to agree on the sample).

On the back of the card, assistant to a member of the Technical Committee, Lieutenant Colonel and / s K.N. Khalturin left a very important inscription: “When duplicating the description (sample) and issuing to industry the words“ fighter-anti-tank ”- replace -“ special ”. This amendment has been approved by the Head of Control Start Art. Spacecraft by Colonel Comrade Vasyukov.

The "description (of the sample)" mentioned by KNKhalturin should be understood as technical documentation containing guidance on the manufacture and conditions for acceptance from the industry of products corresponding to this sample. The next day, July 4, 1942, this document was registered with the Technical Committee of the State Institute of Management under the name "Description of the sleeve insignia for the personnel of anti-tank artillery units" and received the number 0517. Unfortunately, we do not know its content.

However, even before the reproduction of the technical description (as evidenced by the unencrypted words "fighter-anti-tank" on the new card), three more copies of the sleeve insignia with the emblem printed in yellow were made and attached to the approved sample. oil paint by stencil.

We would venture to suggest that the representatives of GUNART, at the moment of agreeing on the "embroidered" pattern, came forward with the desire to have two varieties of the sleeve insignia in accordance with their original design. Taking into account that the approval of the sample by P.I. Drachev, it is not difficult to assume that the chief intendant gave his consent.

Thanks to the genuine samples of the sleeve insignia, it becomes clear that in reality there were two officially accepted versions of the IPTA insignia: with an embroidered art. emblems and with its stencil image.

In the list of prices for items of quartermaster supplies for the Red Army, signed on April 8, 1944 by Deputy Drachev, Lieutenant General and / s V.N. Vlasov, in the section "Insignia and banners" we read: "p.21 Insignia on the sleeves of the special military units: a) officers 2-65 [rubles]; b) privates 0-82 [rubles] ".

The threefold difference of one price from another leaves no doubt that the IPTA sign for junior commanding officers and rank-and-file personnel was made in a cheap stencil method, therefore for officers it was “embroidered”.

The facts considered give every reason to assume that, making his remark on the project, Stalin did not object to the differentiation of the sleeve insignia according to the categories of the IPTA servicemen. Most likely, the "instruction" sounded like an expression of dissatisfaction with the word "gold" in the description.

Who was supposed to wear the IPTA sign fairly accurately informs the content of paragraph 6 of order No. 0528, to which a number of additions were made over time.

Back in March 1942, by order of the NKO of the USSR No. 0052, a company of anti-tank rifles (36 rifles) was introduced into the staff of a separate anti-tank division of a rifle division. Thus, in July 1942, the personnel of the PTR company of individual anti-tank battalions of rifle divisions fell entirely under the action of Order No. 0528. Note that the above does not apply to non-IPTA armor piercers. For military personnel of units, subdivisions and individual groups From January 1, 1943, salaries were also increased for the Red Army, armed with PTRs, and bonuses later appeared, but they did not have other advantages and special differences (sleeve insignia).

The situation was different with the personnel of eight SU-85 self-propelled artillery regiments, specially formed in July-August 1944 and included (one by one) in the eight IPTABr, from among those in the Supreme Command Reserve (order of the NKO USSR dated August 2, 1944 . No. 0032). The personnel of the SU-85 regiments dispensed with the IPTA sleeve insignia for the reason that they did not actually belong to artillery: back in April 1943, self-propelled artillery was completely transferred from the artillery department to the armored one and switched to the appropriate uniform.

As for the IPTAP, which had been in the tank and mechanized corps since September 1942, their personnel formally lost the right to wear the IPTA badge in September 1944, when these IPTAPs were reorganized into light artillery regiments. At the same time, in September 1944, all IPTAPs, which had been part of the tank armies since April 1943, were replaced by artillery units of a different purpose (order of the NKO of the USSR dated August 26, 1944, No. 0039 and 0040).

Appendix to Order No. 0528 with a drawing of the IPTA sleeve insignia and samples of the IPTA sleeve insignia approved by P.I. Drachev.

Homemade anti-tank artillery sleeve insignia.

In light of the shortage of insignia, servicemen had to make the necessary insignia themselves from scrap materials. Confirmation is provided by genuine sleeve insignia found on the battlefield, as well as photographs of IPTA units with apparently homemade sleeve insignia. Most often these were rhombuses made of black fabric with art. emblems made of metal. Black fabric, such as a German tank uniform, art emblems were cut out of metal (usually brass). With the help of a soldered mustache or thread, they were attached to a black fabric rhombus. Other materials at hand were also used.

Consider specific examples in the photos:

Photo # 1. Servicemen 520 IPTAP in a hospital, Germany September-October 1945

The circle marks an empty rhombus sleeve with traces of "guns". Accordingly, the guns were invoiced and for some reason were lost by this senior sergeant.

Next to the station sergeant there is a soldier with clearly large and differently shaped "guns", which does not correspond to the samples given in the TU.

The arrows on the right mark two soldiers with sleeve insignia, upon close examination, one can see how the right one glares in the sun, which clearly indicates that it was made of metal, and not the installed materials - embroidery with thread and stencil paint.

Photo # 2. Fire crew of the 3rd battery of the unknown IPTAP. In the first row, the far left (junior sergeant) and in the second row, the far right (corporal) wear sleeve insignia with cannons made of metal.

Photo # 3. Also, confirmation of the manufacture of homemade sleeve rhombuses is found during search operations on the battlefield. As an example, two such homemade insignia are presented below. Left - found in the Krasnodar Territory, Crimean district in battles of the period 1942-43 On the right - found in the Kursk Region, during the battles of the summer of 1943.

Photo # 4. Homemade cannons found in the Belgorod region. in the battles of 1943

Thus, we see a wide variety of signs within just one battery. Even while in the rear, at the end of the battles, some soldiers themselves made these signs from scrap materials. A noteworthy fact - the official manufacturers of signs sometimes used "leftover materials", clearly intended initially for civilian needs. For example, a batch of sleeve insignia was found and in several of them a fabric with a floral ornament was used for the substrate -.

After the end of World War II, the need for a special status of anti-tank artillery was no longer necessary.

In this regard, since September 1946, by order of the Minister Armed Forces the payment of increased salaries to the personnel of units and subdivisions of the IPTA, as well as subdivisions of the PTR was stopped. Wearing the sleeve sign continued until 1955-56. By order of the USSR Ministry of Defense dated August 4, 1956, which introduced the "Rules for wearing military uniform clothes for sergeants, foremen, soldiers, sailors, cadets and pupils Soviet army and the Navy ", the order of the NKO of the USSR dated July 1, 1942 No. 0528 was canceled as invalid.

You can read more about the post-war fate of the sign in the article by K. Cyplenkov, A. Stepanov →

Literature:

• magazine "TSEIKHGAUZ" No. 22 2006
• the article is based on the article by Cyplenkov K .; Stepanova A. - “Worn on the sleeve sign of anti-tank artillery. 1942-1956 " ...
• materials of the Internet.

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And in 1995 it was replaced by the FPS sign, however, there are allegations that this sign was introduced already in 1994, perhaps, but in our country, in Transbaikalia, it appeared only in 1995.

Initially, the sign was developed in three versions, on a green basis, for border troops, black, for MCHPV troops and blue, for FPS aviation personnel, however, soon, only a green backing remained.

Also, until 1995, there were no official signs of individual formations, units, divisions, there were unofficial ones.

In 1995, the development of these signs began, which were to be worn on the right sleeve. The first signs are from the Moscow and Golitsyn Institute of FPS, March 1995. Form they, more or less, repeated the sleeve insignia of the FPS

Golitsyn Institute

Moscow Institute.

Further, there is a long quote from A. Demin's article "Patches of the Federal border service":" In April 1995, a service was created at the General Staff of the Russian Border Troops military heraldry and military rituals, and in one of research centers- laboratory of military heraldry. With the advent of full-time divisions, the work on the creation of sleeve insignia in the FPS has become more focused and organized. A clear system of sleeve insignia for belonging to specific border service bodies has been formed ...

The sleeve insignia is proposed to be assigned to military units and border service bodies from a separate battalion and above. By decision of the director of the Federal Border Service of Russia, the right to your sleeve insignia can be assigned to other military units and border service bodies, structural units of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia. Military units and border service bodies that do not have this right must wear the sleeve insignia of the higher body of the Russian border service.

The right to wear the sleeve insignia should be retained for the soldier during his stay in the military unit.

The system of sleeve insignia is based on the principle of subordination and contains information expressed in a heraldic form about the rank, subordination, particular characteristics of the structural units of the Federal Border Guard Service, military units of the bodies and troops of the Federal Border Service Russian Federation…

All the sleeve insignia of officers and generals of the Central Office of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia represent the heraldic shield adopted by the Federal Border Guard Service, which depicts the main basic symbols of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia: a double-headed eagle with a scepter and a power in its paws and a green cross. The drawing of an eagle dates back to the period of the reign of Nicholas I, during which the Russian border guard acquired a military organization. The eagle can have several modifications: on the badges of officers and generals of structural units that are not part of the General Staff of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia - without additional elements; on the badges of officers and generals of the General Staff - with silver swords; for Marine Guard officers - with silver anchors; and for officers - aviators - with a silver crossed propeller and sword.

The colors of the cross-crosses were also distributed accordingly: for structural units that are not part of the General Staff, the colors of the State Flag of Russia; for officers of the General Staff - red (the color of the ground forces); for aviation officers - blue; for officers of the Maritime Guard - a double-headed eagle with anchors superimposed on the drawing of the flag of the border ships.

Personal badges of officials of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia have an eagle superimposed on a red medallion enclosed in Laurel wreath... The modification of this emblem, the color of the background on which it is superimposed, is determined by the rank of the official: on the personal badge of the director of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia and his deputies (with the exception of the chief of the General Staff and the commanders of the Naval Guard and Aviation) there are cross-hairs of the colors of the State Flag of Russia, the eagle has no additional elements, a gold wreath (from the director of the FPS) or silver (from the deputy directors); on the badge of the Chief of the General Staff, the background and drawing of the eagle are similar to those on the badges of officers and generals of the General Staff, a wreath - like those of other deputies.

The same principle is retained for the insignia of the commanders of the Maritime Guard and Aviation.

All other sleeve insignia have more complex drawing... They consist of a head and a bottom. The head bears an eagle of modification corresponding to the subordination of the unit, and has a specific color or combination of colors assigned to the association or formation of border troops or an institution central subordination... In the lower part, there is an armature indicating the features of the service and functional purpose, history and location of a specific border guard body or military unit. The armature is superimposed on the background, corresponding to the pattern on the signs of officers and generals of those structural units of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia, to which the unit (institution) is subordinated - a green cross with colored cross-hairs. "

Well, the pictures)))

Director of FPS

Deputy directors of the Federal Border Guard Service

Chief of the General Staff of the Federal Border Guard Service

FPS Aviation Commander

FPS Marine Guard Commander

Officers and generals of the Central Office of the Federal Border Guard Service

Officers and Generals of the General Staff

Officers and generals of the FPS aviation command

Officers, generals and admirals of the FPS Marine Guard Command.

Educational establishments.
It should be noted that the insignia of the Moscow and Golitsyn Institute remained unchanged, but "Subsequent sleeve insignia were developed in accordance with the emerging system, enshrined later in the order of the director of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia. These insignia are united by a single construction system, close to the rules of classical heraldry. Each insignia has In its upper part (chapter) on a black field there is a half-sun, in which the emblem of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia is placed - a crowned two-headed eagle. The first symbol indicates belonging to military educational institutions, the second to the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia. Black color of the head established for all units of central subordination In the Russian tradition, black was present as a corporate distinction on the uniforms of representatives of all high-tech military professions, including officers of the General Staff - the "brain of the army."

In the field of the lower part of the signs there are a straight, widening green cross and colored corners. This coloring repeats the colors of the flags of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia or flags of the branches of the armed forces. In the event that the institute trains specialists for several types of forces and services, a drawing of the flag of the Federal Border Service of Russia is placed in the lower part of the sign. If the university is clearly focused on the training of officers of a particular type of force, the lower part of the badge contains the colors of the corresponding flag, as depicted on the badge of the Kurgan Military Institute.

In the center of the cross there is an emblem consisting of the coat of arms (or a symbol that replaces it) of the city in which the institute is located, and symbols denoting the specialization of education. The emblem is composed using traditional corporate military symbols. So, the emblem of the Kurgan VI is based on the symbolism of the badge of the Gatchina military school of pilots, the emblem of the Military Medical Institute ( Nizhny Novgorod) is based on the symbolism of the sign of Russian military doctors. The emblems of the Kaliningrad and Khabarovsk institutes contain symbols that traditionally denote their specialization. The color of the "instrument metal" on the signs was chosen on the basis of the Russian military tradition, according to which "gold" (yellow) was assigned mainly to command specialties, and "silver" (white) - to engineers, specialists of logistic and military-administrative services.

According to a scheme similar to the sleeve insignia of military institutes, the sleeve insignia of the First Cadet Corps of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia was built. Its emblem uses a shield stylized like a book with the emblem of Tsarskoye Selo and two palm branches, symbolizing science and enlightenment in the European and Russian heraldic traditions, the glory gained in this peaceful field. "(V. Karpichenkov" Symbols of military educational institutions of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia " )

FPS Academy.

Kaliningrad Military Institute

Nizhny Novgorod Military Medical Institute

Kurgan Military Aviation Institute

Khabarovsk Military Institute

First Cadet Corps

Well, how it looked in the units and formations of the Federal Border Guard Service on the example of the Border Group of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia in the Republic of Tajikistan

General sign of the group.

Directorate of the Border Group of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia in the Republic of Tajikistan

Dushanbe hospital

Dushanbe Aviation Regiment (color rendition downed)

Dushanbe training detachment

Communications battalion

Pyanj detachment

Moscow detachment

Kalai-Khumbsky detachment

Khorog detachment

Ishkashim detachment

Murghab detachment.

Also, in theory, there should be stripes of the Moscow and Khorog squadrons, but I have not seen them.

67. Insignia according to the belonging of military personnel are sleeve and badges. The sleeve insignia of belonging to the Ministry of Defense, the General Staff of the Armed Forces, types (arms of troops) of the Armed Forces, Railway troops, troops not included in the types (types of troops) of the Armed Forces, located on the outside of the left sleeve items of military uniform. The sleeve insignia according to belonging to specific military formations are located on the outside of the right sleeve of items of military uniform. Servicemen of military units who do not have sleeve insignia according to their belonging to specific military formations wear insignia according to the affiliation of a higher military command (military formation). Military personnel passing military service outside the Russian Federation, wear on the outside of the right sleeve instead of the insignia of belonging to a particular military formation, the sleeve insignia of state affiliation. Patch signs are placed: on woolen tunics, woolen jackets (except for summer woolen jackets), woolen jackets, flannel jackets - at a distance of 80 mm from the upper point of the sleeve to the upper point of the sleeve insignia; on jackets for winter everyday, jackets for demi-season everyday, jackets for everyday suits, jackets of a set of field uniforms (except for a jacket of a windproof suit) in the places provided for their placement.

68. On jackets of everyday suits and jackets of a set of field uniforms (except for a jacket of a windproof suit), chest patches are worn in the places provided for their placement: on the right side of the chest - a chest patch with an inscription yellow color"ARMED FORCES OF RUSSIA" and edging; on the left side of the chest there is a chest patch with a yellow inscription displaying the surname and initials of the serviceman, for example: "IVANOV II", and piping. The color of the edging of the chest patches on the jacket of an everyday suit is red (in the Air Force, Airborne Forces and the Aerospace Defense Forces - blue, in the Navy and senior officers- yellow color. The color of the edging of the chest patches on the jackets of the set of protective field uniforms (and in the cases established by these Rules, when the set of field uniforms is used as everyday form clothes - red, blue, yellow) color.

69. Patches (except for the State Flag of the Russian Federation) and breast stripes on jackets of a set of field uniforms are worn in a khaki color, and in cases established by these Rules, when a set of field uniforms is used as a daily military uniform, in color. The sleeve insignia of the State Flag of the Russian Federation is worn only when wearing a set of field uniforms as a daily military uniform.

70. The sleeve insignia for training courses of cadets of military educational organizations in the form of golden squares are worn on the outer side of the left sleeve of demi-season jackets, jackets of everyday suits, uniforms and flannel jackets. The sleeve insignia for the training courses of cadets of military educational organizations are placed below the sleeve insignia according to their affiliation with the types (arms of troops) of the Armed Forces, the Railway Troops, troops not belonging to the types and types of troops of the Armed Forces, downward angle at a distance of 10 mm. On the uniforms, sleeve insignia for training courses for cadets of military educational organizations are placed at a distance of 175 mm from the upper point of the left sleeve.

71. The sleeve insignia according to the years of service of servicemen undergoing military service under contract in the positions of soldiers (sailors), sergeants and foremen, in the form of golden squares, are worn on the lower part of the outer sides of the sleeves of demi-season jackets, jackets with long sleeves of everyday suits, jackets naval suits, jackets of summer camouflage suits. In the cases established by these Rules, when a summer camouflage suit is used as field uniform clothes, sleeve insignia by years of service - khaki.

72. Badges of distinction according to belonging to specific military formations are worn on the left side of a woolen tunic, a woolen jacket, a summer woolen jacket, a woolen jacket 10 mm below the ribbons of state awards.

73. The official marks of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation and his deputies, heads of central bodies of military control, commanders of formations, commanders of formations and military units are placed on the right side of the chest 10 mm above the mark of class qualifications after the marks of honorary titles.