Foreigners traveling to the USSR have always chosen to wear a ushanka. The U.S. President Gerald R. Ford meeting Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Vladivostok, 1974.

The most widely recognized Russian winter hat is “ushanka,” a thick and warm hat with earflaps. The design dates back to the 17 th century, when someone invented the “treukh” ...

Digital manipulation gave the appearance that the first lady of the U.S. was photographed wearing Soviet insignia on a traditional Russian ushanka. Dan MacGuill Published July 17, 2020 ...

MOSCOW, October 5. /TASS/. The Russian armed forces are not planning to scrap their traditional winter hat with ear flaps, known as ushanka, a Russian defense ministry official has told TASS ...