Soviet Collectible Badge Honorary Donor of the USSR

Honorary Donor of the USSR – a badge approved by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 24, 1944.

Badge size: 60x40mm
Material: Aluminum alloy, enamel

Over the entire history of the existence of this sign, about 50,000 people were marked with it. In the 1980s-1990s, upon presentation of the badge, a smaller copy of it (a tailcoat badge or tailcoat) and a certificate of conferment of the title were added. It is not known exactly how many tailcoats were issued, but presumably about 12,000 pieces. Both the badge and the tailcoat were made of aluminum and attached to clothing with a pin. Doctors and donors call this sign the “Order of Blood.”

By the time they received the title “Honorary Donor of the USSR,” donors, as of 1991, had donated an average of 22 liters of blood.

There were cases of Soviet donors helping victims in Africa. Thus, on April 19, 1984, after a building explosion in the Angolan city of Huambo, blood was needed for transfusion to the victims. Soviet doctors and military advisers were the first to come to the aid of the wounded. In the same year, after saboteurs blew up the German ship Arendsee in the port of Luanda, Soviet citizens donated blood to German sailors.

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