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M-1969 Admiral Summer Parade No. 1 Uniform |
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M-1969 Admiral Summer Parade No. 1 Uniform |
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Parade No. 1 Uniform (1978) |
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The Admiral is Wearing: The 1969 pattern summer visor cap for naval flag rank officers. It features more elaborately patterned buttons, and gold embroidery along the visor. Its cockade is multi-piece and makes heavy use of gold embroidery. Gold colored cords running along the base of the black band attached to the two buttons complete the headgear. His jacket is an off white color (slightly yellowed with age) of higher quality fabric than typical officer patterns. Two embroidered stars can be found over the gold embroidery of this shoulder rank boards. More gold embroidery can be found at the ends of the sleeves where rank stripes and a star are located. The eight buttons on this jacket feature the state seal and crossed anchors rather than the simple anchor of officer jackets. A high quality belt with gold embroidery and a unique buckle is worn around the waist. From this belt is suspended the M-1945 officer's dirk. Flag rank officers used the same dirk as other naval officers, but the belt from which it hangs is of significantly higher quality. The matching white trousers and white naval officers shoes complete the uniform.
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| More about the uniform... This uniform was worn on special parade and ceremonial occasions by flag rank officers (konter-admiral and above). Typically worn during the warm summer months, the uniform could also be authorized for wear in the any warm locations where the fleet could find itself (Cuba, Cam Ranh Bay, and Socotra for example). Orders and medals were authorized for wear on this uniform. Orders would be worn on the right breast, while medals would be worn on the left. |
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Service Chronology When it was introduced in 1969, this pattern
of admiral's No. 1 uniform was the latest in a long line of white parade
uniforms. It superseded the M-1958 uniform, most notably with the addition
of the gold belt. Weather permitting, it was worn on all of the navy's highest
ceremonial occasions. The uniform was worn throughout the last
half of the Cold War and even for some years after. The uniform was only
formally replaced in 1994 with the new Russian Federation uniform regulations. |
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| This Uniform Replaced... | M-1969 Admiral Summer Parade No. 1 Uniform |
This Uniform was Replaced by... |
| M-1958 Admiral Summer Parade No. 1 Uniform |
M-1994 Admiral Summer Parade No. 1 Uniform |
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(2) Правила Ношения Военной Формы Одежды [Regulations on Wearing Military Uniforms], Moscow: USSR Ministry of Defense, 1989.
(3) Правила Ношения Военной Формы Одежды [Regulations on Wearing Military Uniforms], Moscow: USSR Ministry of Defense, 1973.
(4)
Правила Ношения военной формы одежды
военнослужащими советской армии и военно-морского флота (на мириое время)[Rules
of wearing military uniforms by the servicemen of the Soviet army and navy (in
peacetime)],
Moscow: USSR Ministry of Defense, 1958.
Last Updated 3 January 2019 by Ryan Stavka