What were standard-issue soviet sidearms?

[Deus Machina]

Lately, I've been allowing myself a gift every semester at school, as a personal reward for dealing with grant and scholarship paperwork and keeping my grades up.

I also have a C&R license, and a healthy respect and perhaps unhealthy love for soviet engineering.

So, to go along with my Mosin Nagant, (soon to be) SKS, and converted Saiga, I'm looking into what handguns the Russian military has used.

My current long-term goal is to have (very loosely) the same rifle/sidearm pair your basic farm-raised Russian grunt would likely have been issued since the turn of last century.

So, what's the lineup on Russian arms since the Nagant revolver?

 

[Quiet]

From Imperial Russia through the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the Russian Federation.

1872-1895 [Imperial Russia] = [S&W and Tula Arsenal] S&W Model 3 (.44Russian)
1895-1945 [imperial Russia / USSR] = [Nagant, Tula Arsenal and Izhevsk Arsenal] Nagant M1895 (7.62x38mmR Nagant)
1933-1955 [USSR] = [Tula Arsenal] Tokarev TT-33 (7.62x25mm)
1952-2003 [USSR / Russian Federation] = [Izhevsk Arsenal] Makarov PM (9x18mm)
2003-Present [Russian Federation] = [Baikal] MP-443 Grach (9x19mm)

 

[Shadow 7D]

Worldguns
look up USSR/russia and start reading, pistol, rifle, smg, etc.

 

[Mizar]

Russian/ussr soldiers were/are issued only long guns - Mosin, PPSh, PPS, AK 47/74 and etc. Officers had pistols/revolvers for personal handguns.

Boris

 

[PabloJ]

Lately, I've been allowing myself a gift every semester at school, as a personal reward for dealing with grant and scholarship paperwork and keeping my grades up.

I also have a C&R license, and a healthy respect and perhaps unhealthy love for soviet engineering.

So, to go along with my Mosin Nagant, (soon to be) SKS, and converted Saiga, I'm looking into what handguns the Russian military has used.

My current long-term goal is to have (very loosely) the same rifle/sidearm pair your basic farm-raised Russian grunt would likely have been issued since the turn of last century.

So, what's the lineup on Russian arms since the Nagant revolver?

Glock for more elite security services and 12 shot or 8 shot pistolet Makarova is probably still found in most military holsters.

 

[denfoote]

Boris,
Weren't senior NCOs sometimes issued a handgun??

 

[Shadow 7D]

What about the Nagant revolvers that are still in service?

 

[PPS43]

One addition to Quiet's list:

1951-present = Stechkin APS (9x18mm)

 

[PabloJ]

What about the Nagant revolvers that are still in service?

There might still be some in holsters east of the Urals. The Stechkin is not exactly standard issue sidearm.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Like said above sidearms weren't standard issue to the "grunts but if you want something to go with your Mosin Nagant my first choice would be a Nagant revolver. It just seems right to go with his rifle. If you can't find one or you like semi-autos better there;s nothing wrong with a Tokarev pistol.

Here is a 1895 Nagant for under $100.

Here is a Yugo Tokarev for $200.

If it were me I would buy the revolver but then again, I'm a revolver kinda guy!

 

[Mizar]

Denfoote, you are right - NCOs are issued with a pistol. I mixed the conscript and professional military.

Boris

 

[PPS43]

The Stechkin is not exactly standard issue sidearm.

Not any more, but in the sixties it was routinely issued to artillery, tank crews, and front line officers. Soviet special forces in Afghanistan used it as well.

It's little known in the US because full auto capability made importation problematic, but there were quite a few made, and some even remain in service.