Garuda wrote:What was the year of the last Gulag?Was it closed by MVD in 1960?
That's right. After that all that was left was a system of penal colonies -basically just remote prisons. If your story is about political prisoners of some sort, note that as time went on their numbers went down dramatically, and by the mid 1980s there were something like 100 of them in the whole of the country (I remember reading this in Politburo meeting papers from when Gorbachev had just come to power and asked the KGB about it).
Apparently in 1958 the MVD was given a new set of rules about uniforms. Here they are (click on the links to see pictures of different ranks).
http://www.vedomstva-uniforma.ru/mil1958/mil1958.html Use google translate on the page if necessary -it should be fairly accurate.
Indigo, that collection you posted is very interesting. The last one especially, probably from perestroika times, shows a dirty uniform with 'brutality', 'bribery', 'corruption', etc. written all over it. Just another example of how everything at that time was covered with dirt and spit on, exactly at the moment when the militsiya was overwhelmed with the rise of organized crime.
My favourite militsiya related poster was always this one:
The officer is always on guard; in the dead of the evening among the city lights. 'Always be at your post'.
This one is also nice:
"Truly the people's
-Ulyanov (Lenin)"