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In 1927, the Red Army school of military concealment produced a dull green, two-piece summer suit with glued-on pieces of sponge. It was simply called summer camouflage. [Image: V. Voskoboynikov/Raboche-Krest'yaskaya Krasnaya Armiya.]

1927 summer camouflage
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

In 1919, Red Army commanders established a school of 'military concealment'. In 1927, this school produced three camouflaged garments, one of which was a dull green, two-piece summer suit, textured with glued-on pieces of sponge. The camouflage pattern was simply called 'summer camouflage' (Russian: летний камуфляж, trans. letniy kamuflyazh).

During the Second World War, engineers, snipers, airborne forces (Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска, trans. Vozdushno-desantnyye voyska, VDV) and reconnaissance units of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Russian: Народный комиссариат внутренних дел, trans. Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del, NKVD) were the most common recipients of summer camouflage garments.

After the Second World War, surplus stocks of this uniform were used by the Czechoslovakian armed forces.

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1927 summer camouflage
1928–1945


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 also known as:
  • Soviet 'grass pattern' camouflage
  • summer camouflage (Russian: летний камуфляж, trans. letniy kamuflyazh)
country of origin:

Союз Советских Социалистических Республик

National flag: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
used by:
  • reconnaissance units of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Russian: Народный комиссариат внутренних дел, trans. Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del, NKVD) (WW2)
  • Soviet airborne forces (Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска, trans. Vozdushno-desantnyye voyska, VDV) (WW2)
  • Soviet combat engineers (WW2)
  • Soviet snipers (WW2)
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