page_title: Corps of drums
section_title: Russia/CIS/Nations with Russian influence
hierarchical_section_title: Corps of drums / Russia/CIS/Nations with Russian influence
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Парад по случаю Дня независимости Белоруссии при участии авиации ЗВО
context_page_description: A Corps of Drums, also sometimes known as a Fife and Drum Corps, Fifes and Drums or simply Drums is a unit of several national armies. Drummers were originally established in European armies to act as signallers. The major historical distinction between a military band and a corps of drums, was that 'drummers' were not employed to play their instruments to entertain or delight, but rather they carried out a utilitarian battlefield role. This role was fulfilled by trumpeters or buglers in the cavalry and the artillery, who did not form into comparative formed bodies in the way that drummers did; therefore, an orthodox corps of drums will exist in the infantry arm.
context_section_description: Russian Barabanshchiki or drummers are names that are used to refer to Russian military corps of drums (рота барабанщиков, rota barabanshchikom), a practice that is of Imperial origin in the field drummers that marched at the lead of their units in parades and that is a part of the traditions of almost all former Soviet republics (save for the Baltics and Georgia). Russian drum corps are usually made up of snare drummers with one line of flute or fife players in the middle and two glockenspiels in the front (with the option for a third one or a Turkish crescent, plus chromatic fanfare trumpeters, buglers and trumpeters). Military corps of drums are usually made separate from the massed military bands of the unit or command that it is a part of, and are led by a drum major who is a commissioned officer of minimum junior officer rank.
  Historically, the corps of drums is a military unit that is formally a part of the junior military high schools of these countries. Uniquely, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces follows the Turkish models by attaching a full bugle formation behind the corps of drums.
caption: Drummers of the Minsk Suvorov Military School on the avenue during a parade in 2017.
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