Russia – Soviet: Badge for Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Food Industry of the USSR. With screw-back reverse numbered 6007
Condition: Nearly extremely fine
The People’s Commissariat of the Food Industry was established on 29th July 1934 by decree of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars USSR, which was divided into the People’s Commissariat of Foreign and Internal Trade and the People’s Commissariat of Internal Trade and the People’s Commissariat of Food industry. According to the Stalin Constitution of 1936 the People’s Commissariat of Food Industry is a union-republic commissariat.
In January 1939, the People’s Commissariat of Food Industry was subdivided by a ukase of the Presidium Supreme Soviet USSR, into the People’s Commissariat of the Fish Industry, the People’s Commissariat of Meat and Dairy Industry and the People’s Commissariat of Food Industry of the USSR. The People’s Commissariat of Food Industry was charged with the supervision of baking and confectionary industry, the sugar, alcohol and liqueur industries, the fats and perfume and cosmetic industries, and all other enterprises not transferred to the People’s Commissariat of Meat and Dairy Industry or the People’s Commissariat of Fish Industry. On 15th March 1946 the People’s Commissariat of Food Industry of the USSR, became the Ministry of Food Industry of the USSR. The Ministry of Gustatory Industry of the USSR was organised by a ukase of 15th July 1946.
Enterprises, Sovkhozes, and organisations of the following industries were transferred to its jurisdiction from the Ministry of Food Industry of the USSR: alcoholic spirits, viniculture, liqueur-vodka, brewing, mineral water and non-alcoholic beverages, perfume and cosmetics, volatile oils, tea, tobacco, and makhorka, and the sulfice-alcohol and hydrolysis industry. On 20th January 1949, the Ministry of Gustatory Industry of the USSR and the Ministry of Food Industry of the USSR were both consolidated into the latter. The Ministry was abolished in November 1985.
