and the individual's alphanumeric number.
п - 052942 - (soldier number)
The
M1957 dog tag has not officially been withdrawn from the supply of professional
and reserve officers to this day. During the war in Afghanistan in the years
1979-1989, soldiers of the conscript service as well as professional
non-commissioned officers and warrant officers were not equipped with dog tags.
Only career officers and reserve officers had chips.
After
the collapse of the Soviet Union state, the Soviet Army ceases to exist, more
and more local conflicts in the former Soviet republics bring more and more
unrecognizable deaths. Public opinion in the federal states is different than
in the USSR, people are less and less afraid and press the authorities so that
their children, husbands, relatives do not have to end up in
"refrigerators" in Rostov n/Don as nameless bodies.
After
the conflict in Tajikistan, and mainly after January 1995 in Grozny, the Army
of the Russian Federation begins to issue officer pattern tokens also to
privates, non-commissioned officers and ensigns.