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The hat was created as part of a new uniform for the Russian army by Viktor Vasnetsov, a famous Russian painter, who was inspired by the Kievan Rus' helmet. [1] [2] The original name was bogatyrka (богатырка) – the helmet of a bogatyr – and was intended to inspire Russian troops by connecting them with the legendary heroes of Russian folklore.
The Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia was established in 1922 and was one of the most influential artist groups in the USSR. The AKhRR worked to truthfully document contemporary life in Russia by utilizing "heroic realism". [12] The term "heroic realism" was the beginning of the socialist realism archetype.
On 23 February 1917, [a] Russia burst into a revolution and with it came the fall of the Tsardom and the establishment of a Provisional Government. [3] The defining factor in the fall of the Autocracy was the lack of support from the military: Both soldiers and sailors rebelled against their officers and joined the masses. [4]
New Book Exposes Seedy Russian Underbelly Surrounding Models Death Now, a new book by NY Daily News reporter Peter Pomerantsev is making the country front page news again by exposing the seedy ...
Regina Nikolaevna Zbarskaya (Russian: Регина Николаевна Збарская) (born 27 September 1935, Vologda (according to another source - Leningrad) - died 15 November 1987 in Moscow) was a Soviet fashion model. She became world famous in the early 1960s.
The GP-5 gas mask kit (Russian: Гражда́нский Противога́з-5, romanized: Grazhdanskiy Protivogaz-5) is a Soviet-made gas mask kit, which contains a single-filter ShM-62 or Shm-62U gas mask. It was issued to the Soviet population starting in 1962 during the Cold War.
Many communist governments purposely diverged from heraldic tradition in order to distance themselves from the monarchies that they usually replaced, with coats of arms being seen as symbols of the monarchs. Soviet Russia was the first state to use a socialist-style emblem, beginning at its creation in
The SSh-68 (Russian: СШ-68 [стальной шлем образца 1968 года/stalnoy shlyem], English: SSh-68 steel helmet model 1968) - is a steel combat helmet of the Soviet and then Russian Armed Forces. The SSh-68 is a further development of the SSh-60 helmet.