Leather belts have been an important part of clothing and military equipment since people learned to make quality leather from animal skins. Today, despite the colossal evolution of military affairs in general and equipment in particular, it is impossible to imagine ordinary soldiers, officers, or generals without this element of uniform.

With the development of military affairs, a leather belt with a buckle has become a practical and necessary thing. The number of useful functions of a military belt differs from a civilian belt. The buckle of the civilian belt is convenient to fasten and unfasten, its additional functional load is decorative. On a military belt, which is worn over a uniform or overcoat, a holster for individual weapons — a pistol or revolver, a field officer’s bag, pouches for cartridges or grenades, a bayonet-knife, a sword belt or a dagger — can be attached.

The buckle of the military belt was designed with particular care, since buckles, like buttons, on military uniforms usually carry state symbols, or else symbols for the type of troops or type of activity of the organization. On the dress uniform, the soldiers had brightly polished silver buckles, and the officers had golden buckles. This tradition is followed by almost all armies in the world.

Before the 1917 revolution in Russia, many walked in uniform and wore belts: civilian departments as well as the military had their own uniforms and their own belts with special buckles. Belts with buckles were worn by high schoolers studying at actual as well as cadet schools, by university students, and even professors. Firefighters, postmen, railroad workers and engineers from various departments had buckles with their own symbols.

The exhibition of the museum features a brass buckle produced by the Society of Associated Factories of Lamps, Burners and Metal Products “Brunner Brothers, Hugo Schneider and R. Dietmar”. The buckle is rectangular with cut corners. On it is a two-headed eagle, in whose talons there is an orb and a sceptre - the image of the state emblem of the Russian Empire. The image is convex and occupies the entire central area of ​​the front side of the buckle. On the back there is a curved metal plate with a rounded edge and a metal clip for fixing the belt, on the right side there is a stamp - the letters B.SH.D., meaning “Brunner, Schneider, Dietmar”.