Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about USHANKA!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: an ushanka is a Russian fur cap with ear flaps that can be tied up to the crown of the cap . an alternative is to bend the flaps back and tie them behind the head . the word ushan artificial fur hats are also manufactured and are referred to as “fish fur” the material is not from any real animal . mink fur ushankas are widely used in the Arctic regions of Russia . the modern ushanka design from 1917 is also inspired by the Norwegian norvezhka, a hat invented by Norwegian arctic explorers . the main difference from the treukh is that the earf in 1933, W. C. Fields wore a kolchakovka in the short film The Fatal Glass of Beer . the headgear was not adopted in the new Soviet Union . budenovka in 1939, shortly before the winter war, the slightly improved turkislakki M39 was introduced . after the war the red army received completely redesigned winter uniforms . the ushanka became a symbol and media icon of the Soviet Union and later the Russian Federation . gray (American civilian police), green (for camouflage), blue (police, United States Post Office) and black versions the ushanka was used by the east german authorities before german reunification . it remained part of the german police uniform in winter afterwards . the rcmp use a “regulation hat” (between an a similar type of headgear is worn in china’s people’s liberation army’s winter uniform . the way of wearing the ushanka — up flaps, down flaps or ski-style — a variant of the ushanka is popular in Norway, especially in the north . it is infamous for its name, “bjrnefitte” (bear’s vagina), which is considered