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Originally posted by nightphoto
Can you tell me what this would be an abbreviation for?
VTS -- "Voenno-Topograficheskaya sluzhba" (Military Topographical Service)
VS -- "Vooruzhennye Sily" (Armed Forces)
There was only one Topographical Service in Russian Empire, Soviet Union and Russian Federation: VTS "pri General'nom shtabe" (under a General staff)*. So...
*) -- The exact name slightly varied in a years.