The total number of uniform elements and equipment items was halved compared with the Soviet period, although new sleeve insignia was introduced, possibly as a form of ‘compensation.’ Russian ...

There were some changes in school uniform in the 1960s and 1970s. But when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1992, school uniforms, as a legacy of the Soviet era, disappeared with historical dust.

The uniform resembles an ordinary soldier's uniform, but bears an Orthodox cross and has the ecclesiastical rank and name of each clergyman embroidered in the same place where a soldier would have his ...