⚪50,000 Women Work in Russian Armed 2017. Женщины в рядах вооружённых сил России! HD

Women of Russia and the Soviet Union played an important role in World Wars, especially during World War II. Women served in the Russian armed forces in small numbers in the early stages of the war, but their numbers increased after heavy Russian losses such as at the Battle of Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes and a need for increased manpower. Women played a part in most of the armed forces of the Second World War. In most countries though, women tended to serve mostly in administrative, medical and in auxiliary roles. But in the Soviet Union women fought also in front line roles. Over 800,000 women served in the Soviet armed forces in World War II, mostly as medics and nurses, which is over 3 percent of total personnel; nearly 200,000 of them were decorated. 89 of them eventually received the Soviet Union’s highest award, the Hero of the Soviet Union, they served as pilots, snipers, machine gunners, tank crew members and partisans, as well as in auxiliary roles. Российскую армию сегодня невозможно представить без представительниц прекрасного пола, на которых приходится 10% её личного состава. Женщины исполняют воинский долг в подразделениях специального назначения, в морской пехоте, в мотострелковой и арктической бригадах на должностях солдат, матросов, сержантов, старшин, прапорщиков, мичманов и офицеров. На сегодня в Вооружённых силах России числится 326 тыс. женщин. Эта цифра складывается из гражданского персонала и тех, кто носит погоны.