Officers/NCO's blue sharivaris

[vvadim]

From 1935 color of piping on trousers was as follows

Raspberry - Infantry
Red – Artillery, Armor, Medical, Veterinarian, Justice, Administrative, Supply(Intendants) from 1936 also Kuban’s and Don’s Kazaks
Light blue – Cavalry (from 1936 also Terek’s Kazaks)
Blue – All technical and engineering
Azure – Aviation
Black – Chemical

Raspberry - State security and all NKVD's troops

From 1943

Raspberry - Infantry, Justice, Supply(Intendants)
Red – Artillery, Armor, Medical, Veterinarian, Administrative
Black – All technical, chemical and engineering.
Light Blue – Cavalry
Azure – Aviation

NKVD/NKGB
Royal blue - State security and all branches of internal troops.
Green - Frontier guard troops.

This is more or less how colors looks like

[RichieC]

Raspberry - State security and all NKVD's troops

Perhaps you mean CRIMSON for NKVD? I understand that RASPBERRY is Infantry...

Also, that post 1943r NKVD & NKGB was a CORNFLOWER blue?

[vvadim]

Perhaps you mean CRIMSON for NKVD? I understand that RASPBERRY is Infantry...

Color was identical to Red Army infantry, of course if we still talking about piping on the bridges and tunics, not something else.

Also, that post 1943r NKVD & NKGB was a CORNFLOWER blue?

Russian word for that color is васильковый, most frequently used english equivalent is Royal Blue, that looks somewhat like that

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Guys, thanks for all the comments and info.

Cheers, Ade.