The Guard badge was established on May 21, 1942 by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR On the introduction of guards military ranks for servicemen of the guards units and formations of the Red Army and the Navy. The author of the sign drawing is the artist S. I. Dmitriev
The Guard badge was issued to servicemen of military units, formations and formations of the Armed Forces of the USSR, converted into guards, and its image was also placed on the banners of these units . For a long time, the subdivisions of the USSR Navy used their own version of the guards sign, proposed by BM Khomich The Soviet guards sign ceased to exist due to the collapse of the USSR. In the guards units of some states in the post-Soviet space, it has been preserved in a modified form