4 little-known Soviet submachine guns from the Great Patriotic War

  • Jun 21, 2022
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4 little-known Soviet submachine guns from the Great Patriotic War
4 little-known Soviet submachine guns from the Great Patriotic War

About the Soviet submachine guns created by Shpagin, Degtyarev and Sudayev, a representative part of the citizens knows. However, few people know that there were Soviet submachine guns during the war years, which most often remained behind the scenes. They were not produced in millions or hundreds of thousands of copies, but nevertheless they were present at the front and in partisan detachments.

1. Submachine gun of the Korovin system

Automatic Korovin. Photo: cyrillitsa.ru.
Automatic Korovin. /Photo: cyrillitsa.ru.
Automatic Korovin. /Photo: cyrillitsa.ru.

The Korovin submachine gun was created in 1941 at the Tula Arms Plant. They did it at an accelerated pace in the face of a shortage of automatic weapons in infantry units. It is easy to guess that the PP created in the shortest possible time was extremely simple. Armed with such mainly fighters of the Tula workers' regiment. Almost everything was done by stamping. With a magazine of 30 rounds, the rate of fire reached 470 rounds per minute.

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2. Zaitsev system submachine gun

For rear parts. /Photo: back-in-ussr.com.
For rear parts. /Photo: back-in-ussr.com.

The Zaitsev submachine gun was created in 1942 and was never officially adopted for service. Only 300 of these were made. Today it is one of the rarest domestic submachine guns of the Great Patriotic War. They were armed with such not soldiers at the front, but military personnel of the rear units as a means of individual protection.

4 little-known Soviet submachine guns from the Great Patriotic War

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3. Sergeev system submachine gun

Sergeev machine. Above. / Photo: forum.guns.ru.
Sergeev machine. Above. / Photo: forum.guns.ru.

Another small-scale submachine gun, which was made for partisans and underground workers. The main feature of Sergeyev's design was that the weapon turned out to be extremely compact. It was possible to wear PP, including under clothes, almost imperceptibly to others. True, the weapon had one serious minus - an increased risk of spontaneous cocking.

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4. Submachine gun of the Temyakova-Menkin system

Familiar design. /Photo: letopis.belta.by.
Familiar design. /Photo: letopis.belta.by.

Another partisan submachine gun, which was produced in underground workshops in the occupied territory. They made it on the territory of Belarus in 1944. The famous German submachine gun is easily recognizable in the design of the weapon with a 35-round magazine. Obviously, it was he who inspired this design.

In continuation of the topic, read about why not the USSR, nor the Allies began to copy the formidable Tiger tank.
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4 little-known Soviet submachine guns from the Great Patriotic War