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Pages in category "Soviet military uniforms" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... Uniforms and insignia of the Red Army (1917–1924)
Ceremonial honour guard uniforms. From left to right: Winter Army, Army, Air Force, Navy, 1994-2008 Army, 1994-2008 Air Force, 1994-2008 Navy, 1971-1994 Army, 1955-1971 Army Fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin at an inspection by the President of the new Russian Armed Forces uniforms, January 2008 The bands of the Western Military District in their various uniforms
Weapons and Tactics of the Soviet Army. Jane's Publishing Company. Matlock, Jack F. (1995). Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Random House. ISBN 978-0-679-41376-9. Odom, William E. (1998). The Collapse of the Soviet Military. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Orr, Michael (2003).
The company adopted full parade dress in 1960 in the uniforms of the 3 service arms of the Soviet Armed Forces: the Soviet Army, Soviet Air Forces and the Soviet Navy in its three platoons. The regulations for such use were amended via a 1971 General Orders of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union , to be used only in state occasions ...
Soviet Uniforms and Militaria 1917–1991 by Laszlo Bekesi The Crowood Press UK (June 30, 2011), ISBN 978-1847972606; Soviet and Mujahideen uniforms, clothing, and equipment in the Soviet Afghan War, 1979-1989. By Zammis Schein; Inside the Soviet Army Today. Osprey Elite Military History Series No. 12 by Stephen J Zaloga
The tradition of Russian or Soviet ground troops wearing a naval uniform comes from Soviet Navy sailors who fought as shore units during World War II. It is exemplified by the famed Soviet sniper Vassili Zaitsev , a petty officer in the Soviet Pacific Fleet who volunteered for army duty, but refused to give up his telnyashka because of the ...
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The Soviet Armed Forces, [a] also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, [b] the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922) and the Soviet Union (1922–1991) from their beginnings in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.