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The rifles troops ((ロシア語:стрелковые войска), English transliteration - strelkovie voiska) often called ''rifle troops'' in English, is name for 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 (ロシア語:стрелки)) or an individual soldier ((ロシア語:стрелoк)). ==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 regiments (four)(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) * 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 ((ロシア語:Заамурский конный стрелковый полк))(This was a Cossack border guard regiment) * Polish rifles battalions (six) * Czechoslovak rifles regiments (four) * Armenian volunteer rifles druzhinas (6 battalions) * Latvian rifles regiments (eight) * Georgian volunteer rifles druzhinas (two battalions combined into a regiment) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rifle troops」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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