NKVD shoulder straps. Senior Major of State Security

The senior command staff of the NKVD and NKGB of the USSR, introduced on October 7, 1935 by the Decree of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.

Previous lower rank: Major of State Security. Next more high rank: Commissioner of State Security, 3rd rank.

Corresponded to the military rank of division commander in ground forces oh and the rank of flagship of the second rank - in the Navy. Insignia - two diamonds in the buttonholes, two sleeve stars embroidered with gold in a row.

In 1935, the rank of senior major was awarded to 47 employees of the NKVD and GB.

In 1943, it was abolished and replaced by the newly introduced title of Commissioner of State Security.

Insignia

The question of insignia in the Special Departments remained open for some time due to agreements between the People's Commissariat of Defense and the NKVD. The joint order of the NKO/NKVD No. 91/183 of May 23, 1936 announced the “Regulations on the special bodies of the GUGB NKVD of the USSR”, according to which for the employees of the Special Departments of the NKVD who worked in the troops, for the purpose of secrecy, uniforms and insignia of the military-political composition of the corresponding ranks.

By NKVD Order No. 278 of July 15, 1937, the system of insignia was changed. Sleeve insignia the differences were canceled, the type of buttonholes was changed. Buttonholes were installed in two types: for a tunic or jacket and for an overcoat. The tunic buttonholes retained the same shape and size. The overcoats had a diamond shape with rounded concave upper sides. The height of the buttonhole is 11 cm, width - 8.5 cm. The color of the buttonholes remained the same: maroon with crimson edging. Instead of stars and squares, insignia similar to those adopted in the Red Army were installed: diamonds for the highest command personnel, rectangles for the senior and squares for the middle.

By Order of the NKVD No. 126 of February 18, 1943, in accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR “On the introduction of new insignia for personnel of the NKVD bodies and troops” of February 9, 1943, instead of the existing buttonholes, new insignia were introduced - shoulder straps, as well as the rules for wearing uniforms by personnel of the NKVD CCCP bodies and troops were approved.

In order to increase the authority of the commanding staff in the Red Army, personal ranks were introduced in 1935. At the same time, personal ranks were introduced for the personnel of the Main Directorate state security. The Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, by their resolution dated April 26, 1936, announced the introduction of special ranks for the commanding and rank and file of the Main Directorate of the Workers' and Peasants' Militia of the NKVD of the USSR. According to this resolution, the following were established for the commanding staff of the police: special ranks: police sergeant, junior police lieutenant, police lieutenant, senior police lieutenant, police captain, police major, senior police major, police inspector, police director and chief police director. Special ranks were established for private and junior commanding officers: policeman, senior policeman, detached commander, platoon commander and foreman.
This resolution was announced by order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 157 of May 5, 1936.
By order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 208 of June 15, 1936. New buttonholes and new insignia were introduced for the rank and file and commanding officers of the RKM.
Buttonholes. The color of the buttonhole is turquoise, with red trim. The buttonholes were shaped like a parallelogram. The length of the sewn buttonhole together with piping is 10 cm, the width with piping is 5 cm, the width of piping is 2.5 mm. Buttonholes were sewn on the collar of an overcoat, tunic, tunic, and raincoat. The size of the buttonholes on the tunic was 4x9 cm.
Sleeve badge was the coat of arms of the USSR, measuring 4.5 cm in diameter. The coat of arms is gold in color. The ribbon and star of the coat of arms are red. Relief globe- blue. The hammer and sickle are gold in color. The sleeve badge was attached in the middle of the outer side of the left sleeve, above the line of the elbow bend of the arm, at a distance of 37-40 cm from the lower end of the sleeve.

Badges for buttonholes for junior commanders and rank and file - the coat of arms of the USSR, silver in color, measuring 1.8 cm in diameter. The ribbon and star are red, the relief of the ball is blue. The hammer and sickle are silver in color.
A special lapel emblem was established by a separate order for traffic police officers.

For junior commanding officers, in the upper corner, just like for the rank and file, a silver-colored coat of arms was strengthened. The senior policeman had a silver strip 8 mm wide sewn across his buttonhole in the middle. The detached commander had two silver stripes 8 mm wide sewn across the buttonhole in the middle, at a distance of 5 mm from each other. The platoon commander and the sergeant major have three such stripes.

For command personnel from sergeant to police lieutenant inclusive, one golden strip 7 mm wide was fixed in the middle. The police sergeant has one silver star in the middle of his stripe. The junior lieutenant has one silver star in the middle of his buttonhole on both sides of the stripe, at a distance of 1 cm from it. The police lieutenant has three silver stars on his buttonhole, arranged in a triangle. One star on the strip at a distance of 5.4 cm from the back edge of the buttonhole and two on the sides of the strip - each at a distance of 3.4 cm from the back edge of the buttonhole.

For command personnel, from senior lieutenant to police major inclusive, two golden stripes 6 mm wide were sewn along. The strips are arranged so that there is a gap of 11.8 mm between them. The senior police lieutenant has one silver star between the stripes in the middle of his buttonhole. The police captain has two silver stars located on stripes in the middle of his buttonhole. The police major has three silver stars arranged in a triangle on his buttonhole. One between the stripes, at a distance of 5.4 cm from the back edge of the buttonhole, and two on the stripes, each at a distance of 3.4 cm from the back edge of the buttonhole.

For command personnel from senior police major and above, three golden stripes 5 mm wide were sewn along, with 7 mm gaps between stripes. The senior police major had one silver star on the middle stripe in the middle of his buttonhole. The police inspector had two silver stars in the middle of his buttonhole, in the gaps adjacent to the middle stripe. The police director has three silver stars on his buttonhole, arranged in a triangle. One star on the middle strip, at a distance of 5.4 cm from the rear edge of the buttonhole, and two others on the outer stripes, at a distance of 3.4 cm from the rear edge of the buttonhole. The chief police director has four silver stars on his buttonhole, two of them were located on the middle stripe, one at a distance of 3.4 cm, the other at a distance of 5.4 cm from the rear edge of the buttonhole. The other two have one star on the outer stripes at a distance of 3.4 cm from the rear edge of the buttonhole.

Candidates for the title were all persons of the police command staff (precinct inspector, assistant commissioner, platoon officer, passport officer) who had not served the prescribed period, did not have the appropriate training, and for other reasons did not receive the title of police commander.

By order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 1 of 01/02/1937. It was announced that the wearing of old-style buttonholes would cease from 02/01/1937.


By order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 418 of September 28, 1937. new Rules for wearing uniforms by RCM employees were introduced. All previously issued orders and circulars of the GURKM NKVD of the USSR on issues of wearing uniforms were canceled by RKM employees.
According to the new Rules, RKM employees were required to strictly follow all the rules for wearing uniforms. Items uniform, shoes and equipment had to be of the established standard and always be in good condition. Mixing items of uniform with non-uniform clothing, as well as mixing summer uniforms with winter ones, except as permitted by the Rules, was not allowed.
In the ranks and in the outfit (guard, duty, etc.), the entire composition of the unit or outfit had to be in a uniform and identical uniform.
The form of clothing varied according to the time of year and purpose:
a) according to the time of year, clothing was divided into summer and winter;
b) according to the purpose, the uniform was divided into casual and service (Appendix 11 and Appendix 12).


Casual uniform clothing was used outside of service, in service outside the formation or outfit, and in some cases in the formation.
Service uniform clothing used:
a) on guard, on duty, in outfits and at posts;
b) in an operational combat situation;
c) during exercises;
d) when escorting arrested persons;
e) on the special instructions of the heads of RCM departments.
The timing of wearing uniforms according to the time of year was established by the heads of the RKM departments of the republics, territories, and regions by orders for the garrison, depending on climatic conditions.
When wearing uniforms, the following rules were observed:
The established insignia was worn by commanding officers and junior commanding officers strictly according to their assigned ranks. Wearing insignia without an assigned rank or above an assigned rank was strictly prohibited.
The helmet or helmet should not be pushed to one side or to the back of the head. Headphones were allowed to be worn only in frosts of -6°C and below. The cap was put on straight, without breaking the front part of the crown and visor, the back part of the crown had to be lowered.
Shoes, windings and clothes had to be fitted.
An overcoat, bekesha and leather coat (jacket) were worn only in the sleeves and had to be fastened with all hooks and buttons. The overcoat was belted with a waist belt. For raincoats and leather coats (jackets), it was allowed to unfasten the hook at the collar and the top button, as well as turn down the sides. When out of formation, command personnel were allowed to wear an overcoat without a waist belt. Raising the collar of an overcoat was allowed only during guard duty and operational work, in frosts of -15°C and below.
The shirt (summer and winter) had to be fastened with all buttons and hooks and belted with a leather belt.
Felted shoes and galoshes were worn only during guard duty and operational work involving prolonged exposure to the cold. Wearing felted shoes and galoshes in the ranks was prohibited. Spurs were worn by all personnel of cavalry units. The spur straps had to be the color of the shoes.
The duty officers and orderlies, dressed up as commanding officers, had to be armed with revolvers (pistols). Those dressed up as privates and junior commanders are armed with edged weapons (bayonet, saber), and the bayonet is placed in a bayonet sheath.
Orders of the USSR and union republics, membership badges of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR and the Central Executive Committee of the union republics, the honorary badge of the Cheka-OGPU, the honorary badge of a policeman, as well as badges public organizations(Voroshilovsky shooter, Osoaviakhim, etc.) were worn in accordance with the established rules for wearing them.
Wearing civilian clothing on duty was permitted to privates and commanding officers of the RKM only when performing special operational tasks.

By order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 96 of February 13, 1938. A cap with a crimson top, turquoise band and edging, a varnished visor and a black chin strap was introduced for the rank and file and commanding staff of the railway police.
The cap was introduced on April 1, 1938. (Table 53).

As a winter headdress; A fur hat was introduced for the railway police Brown with a crimson wool top. (Table 53). For private and junior commanding officers of the rest of the police, a brown fur hat with a top made of gray-green woolen fabric was introduced as a winter headdress (Table 53).
In the Uzbek, Turkmen, Kyrgyz, Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijan SSR, Crimean ASSR and Southern Kazakhstan, in addition to high mountain regions, a cloth cap was introduced instead of a fur hat.
On the headdress it was established to wear the sign assigned to the RKM - a coat of arms in gold color for command personnel and in silver color for private and junior command personnel.
By order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 383 of June 16, 1938. Overcoats were introduced for RKM personnel new form, jacket and trousers.
Overcoat - coat for command personnel It was made of drape or overcoat cloth of a gray-green color, lined to the waist and in the sleeves, double-breasted, with open lapels, with two rows of large uniform, gold-colored buttons, six on each side, with a fastener with six slotted loops. The collar of the overcoat is turn-down. At the ends of the collar, buttonholes of the established pattern were sewn. The collar, if necessary, was fastened with a hook and loop. The sleeves are two-seam, with straight stitched cuffs. The pockets are transverse, welt, covered with straight flaps. In the middle of the back there is a counter fold, fastened at the top with two transverse stitches. There is a tab at the back of the waist, shaped like a stretched figure eight, fastened with two loops on two large uniform, gold-colored buttons; sewn on posts, sewn in at the waist into the side seams. At the bottom of the overcoat there is a cut (slit) with five small uniform, gold-colored buttons. The collar and cuffs of the overcoat were edged with red piping (Table 54).

Overcoat for private and junior command personnel made of gray-green overcoat cloth, lined to the waist and in the sleeves, double-breasted, with closed lapels, with two rows of large, silver-colored uniform buttons (oxidized), five on each side; with five-loop clasp. Turn-down collar, fastened with one hook. At the ends of the collar, buttonholes of the established pattern were sewn. The sleeves are two-seam, with straight stitched cuffs. The pockets are oblique welts, covered with straight flaps. In the middle of the back there is a counter fold, fastened at the top with two transverse stitches. There is a tab at the back of the waist, shaped like a stretched figure eight, fastened with two loops on two large, shaped, silver-colored buttons sewn on posts; sewn at the waist into the side seams. There is a cut (slit) at the bottom of the overcoat. The collar and cuffs of the overcoat were edged with red cloth (Table 54).
Jacket for command personnel made of steel-colored fabric, lined to the bottom and in the sleeves, closed, single-breasted, without a strap, fastened with six large, uniform, gold-colored buttons; back - to the waist. The collar of the jacket is turn-down, with a single hook-and-loop closure. Double-seam sleeves with straight cuffs, each with two small uniform, gold-colored buttons. At the ends of the jacket collar, buttonholes of the established pattern were sewn. Chest pockets are patch pockets with a bow fold and three-arm flaps each, with a fastener with one small, uniform, gold-colored button. The side pockets are welt, straight, transverse with flaps of the same shape as the chest ones, but without a fastener. The collar and cuffs of the jacket were edged with red cloth (Table 55).

The jacket was allowed to be worn with untucked dark blue trousers. IN summer time with white or dark blue trousers untucked, it was allowed to wear a white jacket of the same cut, but without piping along the collar and cuffs, with a white cap (Table 55).
Trousers untucked were made of dark blue woolen fabric with piping along the side seam. White trousers - without piping.
By order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 439 of July 17, 1938. A new cap was introduced for the rank and file and commanding officers of the RKM.
Cap for privates and junior commanding officers was made from cotton fabric. Gray diagonal cotton crown with red edging, cotton suede band turquoise color. The cap for command personnel was made of woolen fabric. The crown is made of gray-green cloth with a red edging, the band is made of turquoise cloth. The visor of the cap is black, varnished. The chin strap was lacquered, black, and was fastened with two small gold-colored buttons for command personnel and silver-colored for private and junior command personnel (Table 56).

By order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 472 of August 5, 1938. The order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 208 of June 15, 1936 on the introduction of new buttonholes and insignia for the rank and file and commanding personnel of the RKM was canceled. Until the new order was issued, the insignia remained the same.
By order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 563 of December 23, 1938. For the commanding staff of the RKM, with the exception of the railway police, a brown fur hat with a cap made of gray-green woolen fabric was introduced as a winter headdress. On the fur hat, the symbol assigned to command personnel was worn - the coat of arms of the USSR, golden in color (Table 56).
In the Uzbek, Turkmen, Tajik, Kyrgyz, Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani SSR, Crimean ASSR and Southern Kazakhstan, with the exception of high mountain regions, a fur hat was not worn.

By order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 524 of August 16, 1939. The guard's headdress - a helmet (felt and white) - was abolished. All police personnel (private and commanding) were required to wear a cap and fur hat, on and off duty, established by orders of the NKVD of the USSR No. 96 and 439 of 1938.
The same order introduced new buttonholes and insignia for the rank and file and command of the Workers' and Peasants' Militia.
Buttonholes were installed in turquoise color with red cloth edging. The tunic buttonholes had the shape of a parallelogram. The length of the sewn buttonhole together with the piping is 9 cm, the width of the buttonhole with piping is 32.5-33 mm, the width of the piping is 2.5 mm. The buttonhole was sewn on the collar of a tunic or jacket. The overcoat buttonholes had the shape of a diamond. The size of buttonholes for an overcoat in sewn form: length from corner to corner is 10-11 cm, width from corner to corner is 8-9 cm, length of edged side is 6.5 cm, edge width is 2.5 mm.

Patch for political personnel was a five-pointed turquoise star bordered by a gold stripe. In the middle of the star is a gold-colored sickle and hammer. The diameter at the edge of the star is 43-45 mm.

Metal equilateral triangles covered with blue enamel and bordered with a silver edge were installed as insignia for junior commanding officers. Two triangles were attached to the buttonholes of the senior policeman, three to the buttonholes of the squad commander, and four triangles to the buttonholes of the platoon commander and platoon commander.

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MINISTRY OF DEFENSE OF THE UNION SSR RULES FOR WEARING MILITARY UNIFORMS BY SOVIET ARMY AND NAVY SERVANTS Order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR 250 Section I. BASIC PROVISIONS Section II. UNIFORM OF SOVIET ARMY SERVANTS. Chapter 1. Uniform of Marshals of the Soviet Union, army generals, marshals of military branches and generals of the Soviet Army Chapter 2. Uniform of officers, warrant officers and long-term servicemen

MINISTRY OF DEFENSE OF THE UNION SSR RULES FOR WEARING MILITARY UNIFORMS BY SOVIET ARMY AND NAVY SERVANTS Order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR 250 Section I. BASIC PROVISIONS Section II. UNIFORM OF SOVIET ARMY SERVANTS. Chapter 1. Uniform of marshals and generals of the Soviet Army Chapter 2. Uniform of officers, warrant officers and long-term servicemen of the Soviet Army Chapter 3. Uniform of female officers

The military uniform, which includes all items of uniform, equipment, and insignia established by the highest government bodies for the personnel of the state’s armed forces, not only makes it possible to determine the affiliation of military personnel to the types and branches of the military, but also to distinguish them by military rank. The uniform disciplines military personnel, unites them into a single military team, helps to improve their organization and strict performance of duties military service. Not by chance

So, the unloading system of the Soviet motorized rifle of the 1950 model is a system of a field belt and a soldier’s field belt for conveniently carrying equipment when performing combat training missions. In common parlance it is called unloading. The field belt is canvas, covered with brown polystyrene and has a galvanized buckle, sometimes mistakenly called a construction battalion belt, but this is incorrect - this is a field belt model 1950. The soldier's harness consists of suspension belts and wide spreaders,

1. KACK TRAVELING EQUIPMENT OF A FIGHTER - INFANTRY RIFLE The marching equipment of Fig. 5-9 of the fighter - infantry shooter is divided into a full camping equipment, when all the equipment is taken with you, including a backpack with a rack, and b Assault, when a backpack with a rack of wearables no reserves are taken. ASSEMBLY AND FITTING OF ASSAULT EQUIPMENT Put the following items on the waist belt in sequence order, starting them from the free end of the belt 1.

Backpack of a Red Army soldier 1. BACK MARKING EQUIPMENT OF A FIGHTER - INFANTRY RIFLE Marching equipment Fig. 5-9 of a fighter - infantry arrow is divided into a full traveling equipment, when all the equipment is taken with you, including a backpack with a layout, and b Assault, when a backpack It is not taken into account when laying out portable supplies. ASSEMBLY AND FITTING ASSAULT EQUIPMENT Put the following items on the waist belt in sequence order, starting them from the free

Each army has its own system military ranks. Moreover, rank systems are not something frozen, established once and for all. Some titles are abolished, others are introduced. Those who are at all seriously interested in the art of war and science need to know not only the entire system of military ranks of a particular army, but also to know how the ranks of different armies relate, what ranks of one army correspond to the ranks of another army. There is a lot of existing literature on these issues.

The image shows two Red Army infantrymen, a Red Army soldier on June 22, 1941, and a victorious sergeant on May 9, 1945. Even from the photo you can see how the uniform and equipment were simplified over time; something turned out to be too expensive to manufacture in war time, something didn’t catch on, something the soldiers didn’t like and was removed from supply. On the contrary, individual elements of equipment were spied on by the enemy or taken as trophies. It's not all about the placement of equipment items

The first mass-produced Soviet steel helmet, the SSh-36, appeared in the Red Army in 1936, and by the end of the year it became obvious that it had a lot of shortcomings. The most important of them were the fragility of steel and low bullet resistance in bending areas. Attempts to improve the helmet led to the appearance of a number of experimental models, some of which underwent military testing. Red Army soldiers at the parade wearing steel helmets SSh-36. http forum.guns.ru In June 1939, for supplies

TABLE OF RANKS USSR MILITARY SERVICE 1935-1945 1935 1 By the Decree of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR dated September 22, 1935, on the introduction of personal military ranks of the commanding staff of the Red Army and on the approval of the regulations on serving as command and command personnel of the Red Army for military personnel of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, command and special military ranks of commander were established composition Military ranks of command and control personnel of the ground and

Order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR 005 dated February 1, 1941 introduced a new Standard List of items of clothing that make up the clothing of junior commanders and rank and file of the Red Army for summer and winter in peacetime and war. FOR EMPLOYEES IN SUMMER IN PEACETIME I. Uniform 1. Khaki cloth cap. 2. Khaki cotton cap only in combat units for field training. 3. A gray cloth overcoat is worn