Rifle troops
The rifles troops often called rifle troops in English, is the Russian infantry combat Arm of Service that, since 1857, had been armed with rifles as their primary firearm. The name applies equally to the Arm of Service and its individual units or an individual soldier.
Imperial Rifles troops
By the First World War the Imperial Russian Army had a large number of territorially based rifle corps, including:- Leib-Guard Rifles - four regiments
- Dismounted rifles regiments of the Guard cavalry divisions
- The Rifles Corps
- Finnish Rifles Corps - consisted of Russians living in Finland
- Caucasus Rifles Corps
- Siberian Rifles Corps
- Turkestan Rifles Corps
- Dismounted cavalry rifles
- Caucasian cavalry rifles regiment
- Trans-Amur mounted rifles regiment
- Polish Rifles
- Czechoslovak Rifles
- Armenian volunteer rifles druzhinas
- Latvian Rifles
- Georgian volunteer rifles druzhinas