Sign of the Komsomol "Golden spike" transitional type

Bronze, gilding, enamel. The logo itself is a deformed laterally round, framed by a raised Laurel branches, steel color. Cutouts on the outer edge of the circle to give the logo the form of a gear, symbolizing the main part of agricultural machinery. The oval of the inner part of the circle, covered with white and dark red enamel, raised an ear of wheat made of metal the color of gold. At the bottom of the basics of sign – a ribbon with an inscription: "of the Komsomol". The basis of the sign of the adaptor ring is attached to the pentagonal clasp, covered by a green moire ribbon. Original guaranteed.

Sign of the Komsomol "Golden spike" established by decision of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, B-11/30, dated may 26, 1967. Image and article about the establishment of the sign published in "Komsomolskaya Pravda" on 21 June 1967. Sign of the Komsomol "Golden spike" has two types:

Type # 1: Pad the one-piece, one-piece sign, and the sign and the Shoe is covered with enamel. The reverse is smooth. The first type was awarded from 1967 to 1971.

Type No. 2: Shoe with green ribbon. Sign overlay ear. The second type was awarded from 1971 to 1991. The second type divided into three kinds:

The first (transient) – enamel, no maker's mark, reverse smooth, soldered the ear (between the ear and the sign is a space), on the reverse of the sign at the top of the tips of the ear is rounded. The ear is covered with gold leaf.

The second type is a hot enamel, maker's mark (MMD) on the block, the reverse is smooth, the spike pins are attached, mount on the deck on the antennae. Clos is covered with lacquer under gold leaf.

The third kind, "cold" enamel maroon or red, the mark (MMD) on Board or on the sign or both the sign and on the block, the spike pins are attached, mount on the deck on the antennae. Later signs, antennae on the last longer.

Sign of the Komsomol "Golden spike" was awarded to: young farmers, state farm workers, Mashynobudivnyj and legalization stations, offices and associations of agricultural Machinery, agricultural machinery factories, the Builder of the water management objects, agricultural experts who have distinguished themselves in the implementation of production tasks, showing an example of a creative approach to work, actively involved in the promotion and introduction of scientific achievements and best practices; Komsomol workers and activists, masters of agricultural production, farm managers, institutions and organizations, representatives of rural intelligentsia and the older generation of peasantry, workers, vocational schools, teachers of Universities, colleges, scientists, actively involved in the Communist education of youth, training of specialists for the village; the young workers of industrial enterprises and institutions, students and pupils of educational institutions that provide a large permanent patronage assistance in the construction of industrial and domestic objects, the development of political, cultural-mass and sports work in the village. Rewarding sign of the Komsomol "Golden spike" is made of the Komsomol, and on behalf of the Communist youth Union republics, regional committees, the regional Committee of Komsomol/

The first Cavaliers Sign of the Komsomol "Golden spike" was H. G. Solomin, the first Director of the farm "Komsomolets" Voronezh region; M. I. Soboleva – the first tractor driver farm "Giant" Rostov region; D. M. Garmash – the Hero of Socialist Labor, the foreman of the tractor brigade; P. E. Dyakov – "fire tractor", etc. By 1988, the sign of the "Golden spike" was awarded about 35 thousand people.