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Conscription is a big thing here, especially when you want to avoid it, because army sometimes looks like prison here (although this isn't always that bad).

>kopasz = "bald/baldie"; fresh conscript

There is a pretty strict hierarchy, although it is changed when 2 years of conscription reduced to one, but it still works, and everyone know this hierarchy, even those who didn't experience army at all. It is dukh (spirit, smell) -> cherpak (dipper) -> ded (grandpa) -> dembel (demobilized), going by time of service. Some variation exists with intermediate rankings, but last two are required. Term "dedovschina" ("rule of deds") is used very often and has negative connection with army. For example, "ded" rarely does any cleaning work or something like this.

There also a large amount of army idiomatic expressions, mostly about stupidness of rules and stupidness of officers. For specific reason. army command thinks that free conscript is dangerous person, for outsiders and himself, so conscript always does some work to be tired. That works is often very stupid, from making square snowbanks, painting the grass in green (especially when high command visits) etc.
It is hard to write all these expressions, there are many, and they also often untranslatable because they contain wordplay to show low intelligence and bad style of commanding officers. Like "dig trench from fence to the dinner" ("to/until"), "you living like pigs in bear lair" ("pig" means dirty person), "soldier, your boots is your face" (about cleanliness of uniform), and many more.