The peaked cap belonged to the Soviet military leader and Deputy Construction Commander of the Northern Fleet, Boris Stepanovich Fulik. Fulik was a World War II veteran and survived a German concentration camp. Later he started a career in construction from scratch. Boris Fulik rose relatively quickly to the position of head of the construction department of the Baltic Fleet, where he spent six years.

Fulik paid great attention to the issue of providing housing for Severomorsk residents and introduced innovative technologies. Thanks to Boris Fulik, instead of the old and barely effective trestle pile-driving method, vibratory pile-driving was adopted. This method uses a special device — a vibratory hammer. It transmits mechanical vibrations of a certain frequency to the pile. These vibrations make the soil less dense, so that the pile, under the pressure of its weight, goes into the soil.

Under Fulik’s leadership, the universal construction of stationary berths on pile foundations became ubiquitous. It was a fundamentally new method of construction of sonar structures, which were built to replace outdated ones. Labor productivity increased by one and a half times, and the efficiency of construction processes significantly improved. In addition, Fulik promoted large panel system building.

Under Boris Fulik, a lot of facilities and urban areas were designed and constructed in Severomorsk, including Primorsky Square. Furthermore, he supervised the construction of a new microdistrict on Severnaya Zastava and a project for a residential area on the middle terrace of the city above the Rossiya cinema. A dairy factory, a number of hydraulic engineering facilities, and a park with a playground were also built in Severomorsk at that time. Boris Stepanovich Fulik rose to the rank of Lieutenant General.

From 1969, in the Soviet Armed Forces, the standard officer’s peaked cap had an oval-shaped base (the cap for Navy officers had a removable white cover), a crown, a band, piping, a ribbon, a visor, a braided cord, a cockade, and other parts.