This rifle entered service officially as the Model 1891, and production began in 1892. Each submitted rifles for a testing, and while Mosin’s rifle was selected, the modified version featured key details of the Nagant design including the fixed box magazine and the magazine spring. The rifle has an interesting history in that it incorporated two designs and features from two different designers including Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, a captain in the Imperial Russian Army, and Belgian gun designer Leon Nagant.
Here is a look at the key Soviet small arms of World War II:Īrguably one of the most widely produced firearms ever (with the possible exception of the much later AK-47), some 37,000,000 were made between 18. Whereas German small arms needed to be produced in factories that could make weapons to very stringent tolerances, the Soviet firearms were produced in small shops and in some cases even under siege and isolation. While development had begun before the actual invasion, much of the production was done in wartime. So reliable were some of these small arms that their German adversaries often preferred captured weapons over their own issued weapons – this was especially true of the PPSh-41 submachine gun. The firearms were not always the most innovative or even the most advanced, but they worked well and in conditions where other guns would fail. Soviet small arms have always been known for being somewhat crude yet reliable. It would also serve to jumpstart the Soviet arms industry, which would in turn see the development of some of the most infamous firearms ever created. However, the Red Army was already looking to develop new small arms, and by the end of the Great Patriotic War – as the Second World War was labeled to the Russian people – millions of soldiers would be equipped with these weapons. When the Soviet Union faced invasion from Nazi Germany in 1941 its army was still utilizing the same basic bolt action rifle that had been carried a generation earlier during the First World War and the subsequent Russian Revolution and Civil War. Weapons of the Red Army: Soviet Small Arms of World War II By Peter Suciu
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