Belaruski

The badges are prong backed.

The collar tabs as you can see are sewn on before the backing material. (No stitching on the back of the collar from the tab).

Most M35 officers uniforms have a backing material to the collar, but this one is 'bare'. With the zigzag stitching commonly seen on German uniforms.

The lighting on this photo is a little too bright.

That's amazing! Did you sculpt it yourself?!

Illl take some more photos today. Basically the green tab is standard for all branches of the NKVD Frontier Troops (apart from naval ones). The cavalry metal insignia of crossed sabres and horseshoe is the sa,e as a regualr Red Army cavalry device. Rick, that's a lovely M35 cap! I have one very similar!

SIMPLY STUNNING!

THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS!

I had an interest in Albanian awards but didn't know what I was looking at until now. This is a simply superb guide! Many thanks again!

Also be warned thes buckles, and belts are faked now pretty well. Trident sell them, and I think collectrussia had a couple at one point. Almost anything and everything is faked now in Ukraine!

Thanks! I kept looking for 3 years before I found this one!

There isn't any stamp left in the gymnastiorka, but the cap has a few.

Both (and the sharovari breeches) are actually quite mothed up close.

I have a few gyms' with stamps, but not this one!

They're pretty rare. Made between 1936-1941. The shells turn up reasonably often, but complete original examples are rare. The liner system is pretty shoddy so use, and time take their toll!

Here's one of my uniforms, a nice pre war cavalry officer of the NKVD frontier troops. I have this man's cap tunic, and trousers. The badge is for the 1939 battle against the Japanese at Khalkingol.

And inside!

I've realised I've been reading and not posting, so I thought I'd share this with you all. It's a Polish rogatywka cap, with the diamond shaped crown. It's a WW2 other ranks model. What makes it really nice is that the eagle badge is a short lived design made by the Soviets in 1944-45 for the Polish Red army units. I love this cap!

Here's a pretty poor picture of my Ssch36. With the corrugated band.

I also had a M36 with this type of chinstrap. Some early M40's even have them.

The corrugated bands were sometimes removed as they're pretty flimsy. It looks a good helmet, but I've never seen that kind of cotton material before!

Hi,

I'm a collector of Soviet WW2 items particularly NKVD Frontier troops. And am happy to join up.

I am wary of internet forums in general having found them to be often hangouts for neo-nazis or lunatics, but have been reccomended to try here! I am also starting to collect Socialist Albanian awards, and found this to be the only place to find info on them!

Regards!