What is "shapka"

Usage examples of "shapka".

Once inside, in the semi-darkness of the crowded cloakroom, he would doff his arctics, his short fur coat and his ear-flapped shapka, and rush up the stone steps into his own classroom.

Oskar Ugor-Zhilov, a wiry man in his middle fifties, wearing baggy trousers tucked into rubber galoshes and a fur shapka with the earflaps raised and jutting, carried two wine glasses in one hand and a bulky Russian walkie-talkie in the other.

There were plainclothes Ninth Directorate men up and down the pavement, but at the steel entrance gate they were in uniform, thick gray coats, fur shapkas with the earflaps down, and the blue insignia of the Kremlin Guards.

Two stone-faced policemen in heavy greatcoats and fur shapkas sat in the warmth of the cab.