Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Soviet Heavy Draft is a Russian breed of heavy draft horse. [4] It derives from the Belgian Brabant heavy draft breed. It was developed in the former Soviet Union for agricultural draft work , and was recognized as a breed in 1952.
The Russian Heavy Draft is a small powerful horse of heavy cob conformation, with lively gaits.The legs are short in comparison to the length of the body, and have little or no feathering; [6]: 277 cannon-bone circumference is approximately 22 cm. [5]: 323 Perhaps as a result of the Orlov Trotter influence, the head is not heavy.
German horse-drawn supply train with pneumatic tires in France, 1944. German and Soviet armies relied heavily on work horses to pull artillery and supplies. [18] Horses seemed to be a cheap and reliable transport especially in the spring and fall mud of the Eastern Front [18] but the associated costs of daily feeding, grooming and handling horses were staggering.
The Vladimir Heavy Draft is a Russian breed of heavy draught horse. It was bred in the early twentieth century in farms and collectives in Ivanovo Oblast and Vladimir Oblast, to the east of Moscow. The most important influence on the development of the breed was from three Clydesdale stallions foaled between 1910 and 1923. The Vladimir was ...
An Orlov Trotter as used in a Soviet kolkhoz. World War I (1914 — 1918) and the Russian Civil War (1917 — 1923) caused a major disaster for horse breeding in Russia. Many horses died in battle, yet more were eaten for food, and there was a general collapse of the economy, making horse breeding a luxury few could afford.
This is a list of the horse breeds considered in Russia to be wholly or partly of Russian origin, including breeds from the Russian Federation and from the former Soviet Union. Some may have complex or obscure histories, so inclusion here does not necessarily imply that a breed is predominantly or exclusively Russian.
[3]: 323 Other horses of the same type were moved there from a collective at Mariupol, in Donetsk Oblast, in 1929, and selective breeding for a compact but powerful draught horse began. [7] In 1970 the Ukrainian or Novoolexandrian type was officially recognised by the Soviet ministry of agriculture. [ 7 ]
The University of Oklahoma identifies 64 distinct horse breeds that were developed in the country during the Soviet era. [7] Including extinct horses and Przewalski's horse (which is not classified as a breed), the FAO lists 69 horse breeds present or formerly present on the territory of the Russian Federation .