Soviet ID Leather-Bound Booklet? 1977?

I picked this up really cheap on Ebay, but I don’t have the slightest idea of what it is? Here is the listing, with a few okay pictures:

1977 Soviet Russian ID Doc Document USSR CCCP Sh - eBay (item 370454721214 end time Nov-14-10 16:22:08 PST)

I don’t expect you to translate from those terrible pictures, but does anyone at least know its purpose? What branch? Something? I might post some more pictures.

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