“Invincible offensive impulse, bold manoeuvre and agility, whole-hearted courage and high valour, strong comradeship-in-arms, contempt for death, fierce hatred for the enemy – all this form the power of the glorious Marine Corps!”
The Marines is a sort of coastal corps of the Russian Navy.
The Marines is used on the sea-borne troops for conducting combat operations. Both with the ground forces and independently. Besides, the task of the Marine Corps is to defend the coast (naval bases, ports).
In the Russian army a special unit of the Marine Corps was formed in 1698 of the crew of the battle-ship “Eagle”. After the victory over the Swedes, Peter I decided to create a whole regiment, based on the marine troops of the Baltic Fleet.
Sailors in striped vests and peakless caps fought in the Battle of Borodino and the Crimean War, smashed the Nazi invaders, fought in Angola, Vietnam, Syria , Egypt, Guinea, Afghanistan and Chechnya. Nowadays, the Marines are involved in the fight against Somali pirates.
Automatic small arms, tanks, artillery, anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns, armoured troop carriers are at the disposal of the modern Marine Corps of the Russian Navy.
The Marines Corps are a part of all Russian Fleets – the Northern, the Pacific, the Baltic, the Black Sea and the Caspian Flotilla.
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Dog tag “The Icon of the Blessed Virgin of Kazan” is made from stainless steel with golden enamel. It represents an iconographical relief breast-deep image of the Blessed Virgin in characteristic clothes with her head inclined to the Baby. The Baby Christ is depicted strictly full face, the figure is limited waist-deep, only his right hand with a benedictory (two-fingered) gesture is visible. The bottom of the dog tag is decorated with traditional ornament and a legend in Slavic letters: “THE MOST HOLY MOTHER OF GOD SAVE AND PROTECT”.
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Dog tag “Navy Units of the Border Guards Service” (Skull) is made of stainless steel with enamel.
It is the image of the flag of the ships and boats of the Border Troops overlaid with the symbol of the “dead head” in a black cap.
The basis of the flag is the Navy (St. Andrew’s) Russian flag: a waving green cloth with dark blue diagonal cross edged with white stripe.
At the top of the tag is the inscription: “RUSSIA”, at the bottom – an abbreviation:”VMF” which stands for “Navy”. -
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The dog tag is made of stainless steel with enamel.
It represents a bust of a skeleton in a green beret and and a camo suit, holding a knife in his hand and surrounded by a pool of blood.
Below is an inscription: ”SPECIAL FORCES’” written in a swift dynamic style.
The image of the dog tag is based on the emblem laid on the patches of special forces unit “Viking” of the 20th Special Forces detachment of Russian Internal Troops. The detachment was disbanded in 2010.
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The dog tag is made of stainless steel with enamel.
It is a version of the medieval emblem of death – the Merciless Reaper – for combat swimmers and subversive groups of the Navy.
The skeleton, symbolizing the frailty of the flesh, wears a diving suit instead of the black cloak with a hood, and squeezes a dagger instead of the scythe in its bony hand.
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The sleeve patch of the servicemen of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
A cloth stripe with the emblem of the Russian Space Forces and the text of affiliation with the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
The Plesetsk Cosmodrome is the most northern cosmodrome in the world and occupies an area of 1762 square km.
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A chest patch for full-dress military uniform, which is located above the right chest pocket of the uniform.
The patch represents the undisputed (since 1955) emblem of the Airborne Troops (an open parachute with a paratrooper and two aircrafts on each side) and the inscription of relating to the Airborne Troops.
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The general sleeve insignia for all Russian Cossacks without defining the belonging to a particular Cossack Host.
Is designed for wearing on the casual uniform.
In the center of the emblem there is the image of St. George on horseback slaying a dragon on the background of the national flag of the Russian Federation.
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Sleeve insignia of the snipers of the Special Operations Group “Scorpion” of the 47th Regiment of the 100th Division of Russian Interior Ministry Troops.
The sleeve patch contains a stylized image of the semi-automatic sniper rifle of Eugeniy Dragunov (SVD) and the symbol of the regiment – scorpion – the personification of mortal danger and unpredictability.
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