Rifle troops


The rifles troops often called rifle troops in English, is name for the Russian infantry combat Arm of Service that, since 1857, had been armed with rifles as their primary firearm. The name applies equally to the Arm of Service and its individual units or an individual soldier.

Imperial Rifles troops

By the First World War the Imperial Russian Army had a large number of territorially based rifle corps, including:
During the Soviet Army period the name was amalgamated with the new mode of motorised manoeuvre capability by the Soviet Red Army to create motor-rifle troops as the most numerous of all types of ground forces.