page_title: Gazyr
hierarchical_section_title: Gazyr
caption_attribution_description: Georgian man with falcon wearing Chokha on Tbilisoba festival.
context_page_description: Gazyr, was an implement to hold a rifle charge: a tube with a bullet and a measure of gunpowder or a paper cartridge. They were carried in gazyr bags or in rows of small pockets on the breast. Later gazyr pockets has become a distinctive element of national dress of the peoples of Caucasus, such as Georgian chokha.
  Gazyr breast pockets were borrowed by Russian Cossacks, together with other elements of Caucasus peoples' outfit, as part of their military uniform.
context_section_description: Gazyr (via Russian: газырь from Turkish hazır, "ready", ultimately from Arabic; Georgian: მასრები masrebi) ,  was an implement to hold a rifle charge: a tube with a bullet and a measure of gunpowder or a paper cartridge. They were carried in gazyr bags or in rows of small pockets on the breast. Later gazyr pockets has become a distinctive element of national dress of the peoples of Caucasus, such as Georgian chokha.
  Gazyr breast pockets ("gazyrs") were borrowed by Russian Cossacks, together with other elements of Caucasus peoples' outfit, as part of their military uniform.
caption: A Georgian man in chokha
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