About the book: 1977 / The book examines the question of where, when and how the first heraldic emblems appeared on the territory of our Motherland and what they meant at different stages of its history. The author traces the evolution from the simplest family signs to sophisticated images of the coats of arms of historical figures, cities, and states. The reader learns that the oldest coats of arms on the territory of our Motherland arose not as an imitation of Western European knightly coats of arms, but on their own, domestic basis. It tells about the role of V.I. Lenin in the creation of the coat of arms of the Country of Soviets, about the coats of arms of the union republics. A number of problems of Soviet heraldry are posed in a new way, the roots of domestic production emblems are revealed.V. S. Drachuk - Candidate of Historical Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, specialist in the field of archeology and auxiliary historical disciplines. He is the author of the books: “Secrets of Heraldry” (Kyiv, 1974), “Systems of Signs of the Northern Black Sea Region” (Kyiv, 1975), “Roads of Millennia” (Moscow, 1976), etc..