Soviet The Soviet backpack of model 1936

[Sergey]

Soviet soldier's backpack well-known under posters of 1939

[Sergey]

Other party and stamp/

[Sergey]

So it is arranged inside

[Sergey]

And here such backpack a part of a uniform on the poster devoted the Polish company of 1939

http://www.plakaty.ru/posters?id=675

[Belaruski]

Very nice Sergey. All of these early backpacks are nice, and I know how hard they are to find too!

Here's my M38.

Edited December 10, 2007 by Belaruski

[Sergey]

Your backpack is more, so better

[Guest Rick Research]

Impossible to find here.

How easy are they to find there?

In our armies after the war, this is the sort of thing that soldiers were either allowed to bring home with them and keep (it saved the government having to warehouse them) or ended up in the "army-navy stores" of my childhood, with government surplus gear like this for sale by millions of units-- cheap, and durable.

I was using WW2 tents and backpacks and folding shovels in the 1960s as a Boy Scout. German Boy Scouts were still using 1930s Zeltbahns in the 1970s-- I once had a PILE that they sold off to get fresh new camping gear. NOW... most of that field gear is used up and gone.

Dress uniforms get saved, but useful things like knapsacks seem to be used up, worn out, and throw away. Nice to see these!

[Sergey]

More often we should tell thanks rural attics and character of peasants. To those people that subjects and put things in a stock after the last fights.