posted 04-04-2017 06:42 PM            

In the meantime, I think that Восход in Russian is normally romanised as "Voskhod" not "Voshkod." I don't know if it's the official Восход 2 patch, or generic, but both Belyayev and Leonov wore a rocket patch a bit like this one on eBay (322031336759) on the left shoulders of their pressure suits:

posted 04-05-2017 01:12 PM               

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Originally posted by David C:
I don't know if it's the official Восход 2 patch, or generic...

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The arrowhead shaped CCCP logo was the first Soviet space patch that was publicly seen. It was worn on the protective layer of the Berkut spacesuit on March 18, 1965, by Alexei Leonov during his famous spacewalk outside Voskhod-2. (His crewmate Pavel Beljayev was also wearing it on his Berkut). We assume the Soviets knew that pictures of Leonov outside his spaceship would be published all over the world. American astronauts were wearing fancy NASA-meatball patches on their suits; the CCCP-patch was probably meant as a Soviet counterpart. Since personalized designs were not encouraged by the Soviet system, the patch probably represented the Zvezda factory who had built the Berkut-suit. We will therefore refer to it as the Zvezda 'Rocket'.

posted 04-05-2017 02:29 PM            

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Originally posted by Dave_Johnson:
This may be what you are looking for, Rick.

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posted 04-18-2017 06:21 PM               

1. Sun-Rays and Dove CCCP (Vostok 6)
   
2. Diamond/Arrowhead CCCP Rocket (Voskhod 2 and Soyuz 4/5 Spacesuits, Soyuz 11 flight suits, Leonov's ASTP flight suit)
   
3. Gold and Black Solar-Rocket (First seen on Soyuz 11, but may have flown on intended flight suits for Soyuz 10 had the docking not failed. Oddly, it was not seen again until the Salyut 4 missions. Was mistakenly later called the Flight Engineer's patch.)
   
4. Rectangular Salyut Star (Soyuz 12 through 18)
   
5. Soviet Flag Patch (Soyuz 12 and all missions to 1992)
   
6. Soviet Seal (Salyut 4 Missions onward)

There is a Soyuz 3 specific red patch produced near the time of flight but it was not worn by Georgi Beregovoi at any time. All the pin designs are souvenirs made for public consumption after the flight, and patches were made from some of these designs decades later. There was no "standard" accepted design for any specific mission until ASTP.

So the closest that exists as a generic representative of the Voskhod through Salyut 1 Soviet manned space patch is the arrowhead rocket design.

There have been made many marginal collection gap-filler reproductions made including the one earlier in the thread, but not one that is faithful to the original design.

If someone knows of a good patch maker, I will help back a setup/production run, and I have high quality images of the original patch down to the stitch. The only thing I am not sure of is the dimension (about 4" tall, give or take a half inch).

posted 04-19-2017 10:34 AM               

The first version on space suits (Voskhod 2 and on Soyuz 4/5 by Yevgeni Khrunov and Alexei Yeliseyev) was a much darker blue and had CCCP in bolder letters and possibly did not have the Soviet borders on the globe. It had a white versus gold border. As Russian has stated, it is also larger.

To add to the confusion, the 1970s Leonov version was sewn on various Yastreb 'Ястреб' and Berkut 'Беркут' suits in museums.