1912-1924 Hankou Russian Voluntary Fire Brigade Badge/Знак Русской вольно-пожарной дружины в Ханькоу/1912-1924俄國救火會章

Chinese-made badge.

Silver.
Size 60.5 x 43 mm.
Weight 19.56 g.

Obverse

1912-1924 Ханькоу - Hankou /Hankou, alternately romanized as Hankow (simplified Chinese: 汉口; traditional Chinese: 漢口; pinyin: Hànkǒu), was one of the three towns (the other two were Wuchang and Hanyang) merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China. It stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers where the Han flows into the Yangtze. Hankou is connected by bridges to its triplet sister towns Hanyang (between Han and Yangtze) and Wuchang (on the southern side of the Yangtze). In 1862, Russian tea merchants arrived in the British concession of Hankou. Russians in Hankou established four factories using assembly lines and machinery to produce brick tea, and became the city's richest industrialists in what would become the Russian concession. Hankou used to have five foreign concessions belonging to the United Kingdom (115 acres (47 ha), est. 1862), France (60 acres (24 ha), est. 1886), Russia (60 acres (24 ha), est. 1886), Germany (100 acres (40 ha), est. 1895) and Japan (32 acres (13 ha), est. 1898). The German and Russian concessions ended in 1917 and 1920 respectively and those areas were administered by the Chinese government as the First and the Second Special Area./​

Р.В.-П.Д. = Русская вольно-пожарная дружина - Russian Voluntary Fire Brigade

俄國救火會 - Russian Fire Fighting Society

reverse marked

漢慶鳳 - Han Qingfeng

 

Obviously badge was designed after Imperial Russian Firefighting Society badge of distinction that was introduced on June 8, 1901.