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Weapons · Soviet Union · 1933-1954

TT-33

service pistol

Designed by Fedor Tokarev and chambered for a hard-hitting bottlenecked round derived from the German 7.63mm Mauser cartridge, the TT-33 was the standard sidearm of Red Army officers and NKVD troops throughout the war, prized for its simplicity and reliability under harsh field conditions.

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typesingle-action, short recoil
caliber7.62x25mm Tokarev
capacity8-round magazine
produced~1,700,000

Eastern Front

Tokarev TT33 From flickr user handvapensamlingen - Pistols used in Norway.
Tokarev TT33 From flickr user handvapensamlingen - Pistols used in Norway.Askild Antonsen · CC BY 2.0 · source
Romanian TTC made in 1953
Romanian TTC made in 1953Thornfield Hall · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
This is a Norinco 213, a 9x19mm copy of the Soviet TT-33 Tokarev pistol. I snapped this picture at a gun show in Sioux Falls, South Dakota this February. I was considering picking one up, since the Tokarev has been on my
This is a Norinco 213, a 9x19mm copy of the Soviet TT-33 Tokarev pistol. I snapped this picture at a gun show in Sioux Falls, South Dakota this February. I was considering picking one up, since the Tokarev has been on myVotesmall · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source