Cossacks. High fleece hats were worn on occasion with light blue cloth tops. Officers wore silver epaulettes and braiding. After 1907 a khaki-grey service uniform of standard Imperial Cavalry pattern was introduced but the light blue distinctions were retained until 1920. See also Nagaybaks, Tatar-speaking Cossacks belonging to the Orenburg Host References External Petr I. Avdeev Istoricheskaya Zapiska ob Orenburgskom Kazach'em Voiske, 1904 Cossack hosts White movement History of Ural History of the Cossacks in Russia