Plastun or plastoon (Ukrainian, Russian: пластун) was originally a Cossack of dismounted scouting and sentry military units in Black Sea Cossack Host and later in Kuban Cossack Host in 19-20th ceturies. These dismounted units were introduced during the Caucasian War to guard and scout beyond the "Kuban Line", a frontier in the Kuban plains, against sudden Circassian raids. The tradition of dismounted scouts, vanguard troops and ambushes, together with the term "plastuny", traces into early Cossack history of Zaporizhian Sich and mentioned, e.g., by Vladimir Dahl in his famous dictionary. Jump to: navigation, search The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey. ... Jump to: navigation, search Look up Scout on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Scout can refer to: A reconnoiter; see reconnaissance. ... Sentry is a highly automated collision monitoring system that continually scans the most current asteroid catalog for possibilities of future impact with Earth over the next 100 years. ... A military unit is an organisation within an armed force. ... Caucasus Line Cossack Host (Черноморское казачье войско) was a Cossack host created in 1787 in Southern Ukraine from former Zaporozhians. ... Russian Kuban Cossacks (Кубанские козака, Kubanskie Kozaki) were cossacks that settled in the region around the Kuban River protected the southern borders of the Russian Empire. ... Russian Invasion of the Caucasus, better known in Russia as the Caucasian War of 1817-1864, was a series of military actions of Imperial Russia against Chechnya, Dagestan and Northwestern Caucasus aimed at conquering these territories. ... Kuban (Russian: ) is a region of Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between Ukraine and the Caucasus. ... Circassian language is used in a number of ways: as a synonym for the Adyghe language; as a synonym for the Kabardian language; as a term for a distinct language that includes both Adyghe and Kabardian. ... Jump to: navigation, search Vanguard can mean: A vanguard is the forward division in an army. ... Zaporizhian Sich or Zaporozhian Sech (Ukrainian: Запорозька Січ, Zaporozka Sich) original Slavonic name Zaporizhska Sich was the center of the Cossacks of Zaporizhzhia. ... Dahls portrait by Perov Vladimir Ivanovich Dal (also: Dahl, Владимир Иванович Даль) (November 10, 1801 – September 22, 1872) was the greatest Russian lexicographer. ...

The name derives from the word plast, "sheet" via an expression "to lay like a sheet", i.e., flat and low. It its turn, the word "plastoon" gave rise to a Russian expression "ползать по-пластунски" (plastoon crawling), a way of clandestine crawling, in which the whole body rests spread on the ground and all four limbs move only sideways, in the plane, to propel the body. Crawling is a form of moving around by some animals and in some cases by humans. ...

Later the name "plastoon regiments" was applied to all Cossack infantry. In the Russian Imperial Army whole plastun regiments were formed. Normally Cossacks had to buy their horses and horse tack for their own money, and plastuns were relieved from these expences. Despite this relief, regular plastun units were not very popular, since they did not fit the traditional notion of Cossack pride. Therefore plastun units tended to consist of poorer people. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Tack is any of the various accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals. ...

The term was revived in Soviet Army during the Great Patriotic War and used in the names of several Cossack battalions and regiments. At the same time "plastun" (i.e., infantry) regiments existed in Cossack military that fought on the German side: in the 15th SS Cossack Cavalry Corps. This article is about the armed forces of the Soviet Union. ... The Eastern Front1 was the theatre of combat between Nazi Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union during World War II. It was somewhat separate from the other theatres of the war, not only geographically, but also for its scale and ferocity. ... Jump to: navigation, search Symbol of the Austrian 14th Armoured Battalion in NATO code In military terminology, a battalion consists of two to six companies typically commanded by a lieutenant colonel. ... Jump to: navigation, search A regiment is a military unit, larger than a company and smaller than a division. ... Early Cossacks history Cossacks came to existence in the territories of todays Ukraine around 13th century, as a result of early medieval migrations of peoples in Europe. ...

The word "plastoon" also refers to a member of an Ukranian Scouting organization Plast, named after the original plastoons. Jump to: navigation, search Scouting is a worldwide youth organization. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be wikified. ...