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Military Space Forces uniforms & suits
The Soviet Army, Brezhnev & Gorby periods M1969 -1994
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Military Engineering Academy, Institution (Space Academy) cadet. The universal shoulder board for all kind of the uniform. Black soft cotton field, yellow cotton tapes and the plastic letter "K" (Cadet) Author collection. |
The example of the wearing. The Mozhaysky Institution (Military Space Academy) cadet Mikhail Brezhnev, the son of the famous space general. 1983, the parade uniform. Junior sergeant rank. The shirt (not as officer) is without the shoulder boards. |
The usual (service) uniform. 1982. Cadet Prilepin and Nikitin. Winter (only as the cap, the overcoat doesn't matter). Note that the color of the shoulder board- the black, the tape - yellow. (as artillery, strategic defense and anti-aircraft) . The winter cap as the officer style (the soldiers in Academy used the soldier, low quality cap that causes the theft and the exchange) |
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Starshina Legenchenko A.A., 1983. The Space Forces Academy. The usual summer uniform, cadet of 3d year degree ("kurse"). Photo and Archives of M.Blinoff |
Same. Starshina Legenchenko A.A. The parade summer uniform. Note the regular cadet tapes. |
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Sergeant-major ("starshina") of Military school. Note the narrow tapes (= military school) are not same like regular. Else case all shoulder board looks completely yellow. |
It was too difficultly to buy this starshina straps. The good reason to use non- regular ones (fashioned, but prohibited- any meeting with the military patrol or Academy duty officer or Officials cause the arrest into the military prison -"guba") | Main fashions: the yellow metal letter "K" over the shoulder (old order was canceled and replaced by the plastic), the irregular size of starshina or cadet tape etc. |
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Air Forces and Space Forces. Major. Shoulder board for the shirt. The regular kind of shoulder boards for military aviation and Space officers. Author collection (5 years I used the same kind of shoulder board, but the low rank). |
The example of the wearing. Major, summer time the usual uniform: the shirt without the tunic. The same exactly shoulder board. Space site, the military unit near Eupatoria city, Crimea, 1984. |
Space military unit. The training for the soldiers. The pro-communist propaganda and the World economic & political review. The examination of the soldier. |
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General-colonel Kholopov, the chief of Leningrad Military Engineering Institution (Space Forces Academy). The parade uniform, 198?. Author collection |
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General-colonel shoulder board. The same exactly like the general-colonel Kholopov one. Author collection. |
He was a "native" strategic nuclear rocket troupes officer, not a "native" Space Forces officer. Cadets (and the officers) didn't him |
The general- lieutenant Medvedev, the participant of WWII, the Hero of USSR. The parade military uniform. The delivery the real machine-gun (AKM - "Kalashnikov") to the new cadets. August 1981. Note that some machine-guns where used in the Soviet Afghan war. |
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