comrade vs tovarich

comrade and tovarich both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
comrade	Yes	No	No	No
tovarich	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tovarich is a hyponym of comrade; that is, tovarich is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than comrade:

Other hyponyms of comrade include date, escort, playfellow, playmate, tovarisch.

comrade (noun)	tovarich (noun)
a friend who is frequently in the company of another	a comrade (especially in Russian communism)
used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement