Glossary of Soviet Terms and Abbreviations

[Auke]

Well, связной (from the word связь, which can be translated as communications, connections, relations, etc.) can best be translated into English as runner / orderly / courier I think. In German and Dutch we would call such a person an 'Ordonnanz'. You shouldn't take runner too literally here, I don't think they were necessarily on foot.

What was the word for machine gun, пулемет or автомат? If it's the latter it's a submachine gun, which can be handled on a horse I guess...