Army Captain Blue uniform?

[DougD]

Senior Aeroflot officers had the "scrambled eggs" in metal on the brim, like this cap.

DD

[Lapa]

[QUOTE=willie777;56025By the way, 58 aeroflot cap[/QUOTE]

The hardware is not original, if it is a 58 cap; it should be made of brass, not aluminum.

Marc

[Tretov]

Originally Posted by willie777

So the formal uniform was parade uniform? They wore parade uniform to dinners? Must be really humiliating having your order of lenin dip into your borscht.

The aeroflot cap is supposed to have leaves i think.

I don't know... There was the parade-walkout uniform for generals and marshals, which I assume could be more suitable for dinners with concern to the award-in-soup problem, but I was not there at that time. Most likely there was a solution to the problem, either the officers were able to eat in a decent, sophisticated manner, or they used ribbon bars or whatever.

Originally Posted by DougD

Senior Aeroflot officers had the "scrambled eggs" in metal on the brim, like this cap.

DD

Originally Posted by Lapa

The hardware is not original, if it is a 58 cap; it should be made of brass, not aluminum.

Marc

Ah. Something learned every day :)

[willie777]

The aeroflot cap is now starting bid... $75!!!!!!!!!???????!!!!!!!!! Wow from $9 to 75 in less than 1 week.

New description:

Stamped 58 inside.

Aeroflot Cap
These caps were worn by workers and supervisors of the USSR Civil Aviation fleet - or Aeroflot, the Soviet Union's national airline. Although of course its main peacetime mission is moving civilian passengers and freight throughout the USSR and overseas, Aeroflot has also always had a close relationship to the Soviet Air Force (VVS) - flying many transport missions in direct support of the Air Force (like delivering arms to overseas customers) and with many former Air Force personnel on staff. In fact, during its early days, Aeroflot was a militarized organization, with military style ranks. For example, senior officers would be identified as "Generals of Civil Aviation", with lesser ones identified as "Colonels of Civil Aviation" or "Lieutenants of Civil Aviation" and the like. Following Stalin's death, as part of a USSR-wide drive to "civilianize" government ministries, Aeroflot lost its military sounding ranks and all personnel were identified merely by position and "category". Although some changes were made over the years to this categorization system, over most of the later years Aeroflot "ranks" broke out like this: the highest categories #12-16 (general officer equivalent), senior #9-11 (field grade officer equivalent), middle #5-8 (company grade officer equivalent) and junior #1-4 (soldier and sergeant equivalent).

Scarce: Which means is occasionally seen or offered, but may be difficult to find in US due to limited sources.

Well, I guess he did research on under the red star...;)