The rifles troops often called rifle troops in English, is name for the Russian infantry

Infantry

Infantrymen are soldiers who are specifically trained for the role of fighting on foot to engage the enemy face to face and have historically borne the brunt of the casualties of combat in wars. As the oldest branch of combat arms, they are the backbone of armies...

 combat Arm of Service that, since 1857, had been armed with rifle

Rifle

A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves cut into the barrel walls. The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile , imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the...

s (currently assault rifle

Assault rifle

An assault rifle is a selective fire rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine. Assault rifles are the standard infantry weapons in most modern armies...

s) as their primary firearm. The name applies equally to the Arm of Service and its individual units (rifles ) or an individual soldier .

Imperial Rifles troops

By the First World War the Imperial Russian Army

Imperial Russian Army

The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of around 938,731 regular soldiers and 245,850 irregulars . Until the time of military reform of Dmitry Milyutin in...

 had a large number of territorially based rifle corps (not to be confused with the corps

Rifle corps (Soviet)

A rifle corps was a Soviet military organization of the mid-twentieth century. Rifle corps were made up of a varying number of rifle divisions, although the allocation of three rifle divisions to a rifle corps was common during the latter part of World War II.Unlike army corps formed by Germany...

 as a formation), including:

• Leib-Guard Rifles regiments (four)(The Life-Guards Yegersky Regiment although a light infantry unit in name, was numbered among the guard and not the rifles regiments)
• Dismounted rifles regiments of the Guard cavalry divisions (three)
• The Rifles Corps (32 regiments and the Rifles officer school regiment)
• Finnish Rifles Corps (24 regiments)
• Caucasus Rifles Corps (24 regiments)
• Siberian Rifles Corps (88 regiments, and 4 combined rifles regiments)
• Turkestan Rifles Corps (40 regiments)
• Dismounted cavalry rifles (17 regiments)
• Caucasian cavalry rifles regiment
• Trans-Amur mounted rifles regiment (This was a Cossack border guard regiment)
• Polish rifles battalions (six)
• Czechoslovak rifles regiments (four)
• Armenian volunteer rifles druzhinas (6 battalions)
• Latvian rifles regiments
  Latvian Riflemen
  This article is about Latvian military formations in World War I and Russian Civil War. For Red Army military formations in World War II see Latvian Riflemen Soviet Divisions....
  
   (eight)
• Georgian volunteer rifles druzhinas (two battalions combined into a regiment)

Soviet rifles troops

During the Soviet Army period the name was amalgamated with the new mode of motorised manoeuvre capability by the Soviet Red Army

Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...

 to create motor-rifle troops as the most numerous of all types of ground forces.