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The rifles troops ( Russian : стрелковые войска , English transliteration - strelkovie voiska) often called rifle troops in English, is the Russian infantry combat Arm of Service that, since 1857, had been armed with rifles (currently assault rifles ) as their primary firearm. The name applies equally to the Arm of Service and its individual units (rifles Russian : стрелки ) or an individual soldier ( Russian : стрелок ).
Imperial Rifles troops
By the First World War the Imperial Russian Army had a large number of territorially based rifle corps (not to be confused with the corps as a formation), including:
- Leib-Guard Rifles - four regiments (The Life-Guards Yegersky Regiment, although a light infantry unit in name, was numbered among the guard and not the rifles regiments)
- Dismounted rifles regiments of the Guard cavalry divisions (three)
- The Rifles Corps (32 regiments and the Rifles officer school regiment)
- Finnish Rifles Corps (24 regiments) - consisted of Russians living in Finland
- Caucasus Rifles Corps (24 regiments)
- Siberian Rifles Corps (88 regiments, and 4 combined rifles regiments)
- Turkestan Rifles Corps (40 regiments)
- Dismounted cavalry rifles (17 regiments)
- Caucasian cavalry rifles regiment
- Trans-Amur mounted rifles regiment ( Russian : Заамурский конный стрелковый полк )(This was a Cossack border guard regiment)
- Polish Rifles (six battalions)
- Czechoslovak Rifles (four regiments)
- Armenian volunteer rifles druzhinas (six battalions)
- Latvian Rifles (eight regiments)
- Georgian volunteer rifles druzhinas (two battalions combined into a regiment)
Soviet rifles troops
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 ( Russian : мотострелковые войска ) as the most numerous of all types of ground forces.
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