In its nascent years, the Red Army's uniforms and insignia were defined by two main factors: the revolutionary symbology developed in 1917 and the abysmal logistical realities of a country in crisis. This typically meant soldiers marching to the front in shabby World War hand-me-downs and rustic peasant shoes made of bark, if even that.

The ranks and rank insignia of the Red Army and Red Navy between 1940 and 1943 were characterised by continuing reforms to the Soviet armed forces in the period immediately before Operation Barbarossa and the war of national survival following it. The Soviet suspicion of rank and rank badges as a bourgeois institution remained, but the ...

First the new emblem for the Red Army, the Revolutionary Military Symbol of the Red Army (a large enamel red star containing a brass hammer and plough device with an oak branch on the left side and a laurel on the right making a wreath surrounding the star), which was meant to be worn either as a cap badge or on the left breast (see table 1).

New individual rank insignia of the Red Army was established by orders 2590 and 2591, active starting September 22, 1935. This was primarily directed at supreme commanders, commanding officers, and personnel in charge and control in the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army (RKKA) , published by order number 176 of the USSR People’s ...

Uniforms of the Red Army in World War II. Different types of uniforms and for airborne troops, NKVD, and Political Commissars. Insignia and badges of ranks for the period from 1940-1943 and 1943-1945. The crew of a Russian T-34 tank and their equipment.

In 1920 all the ranks and rank insignia of the Red Army and Navy were regulated by the orders of the Defence Commissar, Leon Trotsky. The first official emblem of the Red Army was a chest badge (red textile bend and oak leaves twig, in the middle a star with sickle and hammer), introduced in April 1918.

The first official emblem, as symbol to be enlisted to the Red Army, was a chest tack (red textile bend and oak leaves twig, in the middle a star with plough and hammer), introduced in April 1918. From summer of the same year the cap cockade, in form of a fife-rayed star with hammer and plough, was disposed by order.

From May 1940 the introduction of general ranks in the Red Army and flagg officer ranks in the Soviet Navy was disposed by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. [1] In line to this disposal the following ranks (OF6 to OR9) were introduced [2]

2020年10月15日 · In this article, I want to fully convey the subject of the ‘old’, Soviet collar, lapel and sleeve insignia, which Red Army Units wore into battle during WWII (1939-1945) and the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).

Between 1935 and 1941 new uniform regulatons authorised the insignia and ranks that were to be worn by the Red Army. This also included the reintroduction into the army of the ranks of General and Lt. Colonel in 1940.