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OKAY!!!! It exists in standard modern Russian. :druzja:
Though I always thought that people who use it do it simply for exotics value (like using "сабвей" in articles about New-York). Same goes...

Yup, exactly. :) The only explanatory dictionary that mentions this word in that meaning is an old dictionary by Dal, full of obsolete and dialect words, and "парка" is marked as "Siberian dialect...

Oh, you are right.
I think it's a relatively recent loanword, because people do not use it widely.

No, "North Face" is "North Face". It's pronounced the same way, only with Russian accent - Норс Фейс. :)
There's no word "parka" in Russian, so these kinds of winter jackets are usually called...