DOSAAF badges - and a little help please

[Lapa]

Originally Posted by deValcourt

...But what, may I ask, does DOSAAF have to do with driving permits? Did they simply offer a course? I thought it was a sport and "ready for defense" almost paramilitary organization. But then again, my posts from today are full of "what I thoughts" :rolleyes:

Phillip,

The DOSAAF organisation was providing a lot of different types of training and activities to the Soviet youth. Here is a link to the Russian wikipedia, the English version being hopelessy useless.

And here is the site of the modern day Russian DOSAAF.

Marc