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2) The rest of the uniform items can be left the same, but with the indispensable stipulations, firstly, that there should be no more than one copy of each of them, with the exception of underwear and boots, of which there should be two pairs, and, secondly, that the Cossacks should not be required to take away those items that are not established to have in wartime, such as, for example, caps with covers, blue sashes, etc. *).
3) Allow the regiments to take boots and shirts worn by var5ers, the last of any material from dark tsvfts, as well as old overcoats, and leave the front overcoats to the regiment commanders for repair money, the size of which will be doubled for the existing cost, vol. e. d0 42-Xyo rubles v5 1005.
4). Reduce the cost. Cossack spdla. This can be achieved, firstly, by allowing the regiment to take used saddles into the regiment, if only they are completely durable, and secondly, by replacing expensive saddlebags with cheap Kurdzhums, the complete usefulness of which has been proven by numerous Cossack Campaigns in the Turkestan region. Gayume kurjums, not inferior to saddlebags in durability and superior to them in convenience, will cost three times less than the latter.
5) Establishment of ve army workshops: saddlery and sewage... The need to establish workshops with modern demands from Cossack uniforms has long been recognized in other troops and this question is addressed there in a positive sense. The project was established at the military arsenals of each of the departments of the Orenburg army saddlery workshops
*)Order for the military department of 1895 No. 125.
developed back in 1895 and will cost only for its implementation. The main position of this project is that only the main masters should be outsiders, and the rest of the workers are their own from the youth. On the same basis, it is necessary to open a sewing workshop with a shoemaking department. The experience of the saddlery workshop of the first department has shown that there are so many people willing to learn the craft that there is absolutely no shortage of them.
The above procedure of sending young Cossacks to regiments without some new uniform items cannot serve as an obstacle to opening workshops, since there are still many Cossacks in the army who are entitled to benefits and who also need service items.
6) The requirement from a combat Cossack horse, in terms of its flow and growth, is to reduce, i.e., its height to let into t arsh. 14-14'/" vershoks, and age up to nine years. "
To worry about the fact that this mfra may have an unfavorable influence on the Cossack is that he will not care about getting the best horse for himself, n5t based. The Cossack has always tried and is trying to get the best horse, if only his means allow him, because the traditional saying: “the horse is under me, so God is above me” has not lost its meaning in his eyes to this day. They will give the Cossacks tall horses, herds of horse-bearing herds and other mfr, taking up the improvement of horse breeding, they will be in the ranks and will be there first of all: something else, and the Cossack always likes to brag about a horse.
Cossack equipment currently costs 204 rubles, and this amounts to an average of about 600,000 rubles per year. for the entire army. By design, the cost of equipping a Cossack for service can be reduced by almost half without any damage to its beauty and amenities.
There is also hardly any reason to assume that the Cossack’s fighting qualities may also be lost as a result of this change. And in 4Bl itself, to say the least, it would be strange to say that wearing a coat and riding a 5-inch horse, a Cossack would be a winner, but wearing shirts and riding a 14-inch horse would be a winner. It would seem, on the contrary, that whatever service requirements are feasible, they will certainly lead to goals, and not vice versa.
The complete suitability for service of the SONYE shirt and the unsightly-looking Cossack “magitak” was proven by numerous expeditions in the Turkestan region, where there was “not a single case, not a single battle in which the Orenburg Cossacks did not take part and where they were not the winners of even such ‘natural cavalrymen as, for example, the Turkmens. It would not be much of a stretch to say that the “shaggy” Cossack “mashtak” and shirt (linen or Armenian, depending on the time of year) conquered the entire Turkestan region *).
The burden of collecting Cossacks for service is currently slightly weakened only by the special way they have accumulated money for uniforms, introduced into the villages back in 1893. This method consists in the fact that a young Cossack from the age of 16 undertakes to