Early history
The tradition of foot scouts, vanguard troops, and ambushes, together with the term ''plastuny'', belong to the early Cossack history of theSoviet period
The term was revived in theName
The name derives from the word ''plast'', "sheet" via an expression "to lay like a sheet", i.e., flat and low. The word "plastoon" also can refer to a member of a Ukrainian