The Ukrainian Belgorod customs confiscated a rare gun
Belgorod customs officers at the checkpoint "negatieve" confiscated Ukrainian rare Gun and blades XIX - early XX centuries, a passenger bus was hiding weapons caches: bread, candy wrappers and kinder surprise.
Customs officials found in a suitcase from one of the passengers, a citizen of Ukraine, objects made of metal. These configuration items similar to part of the gun system Korovin caliber 6, 35 mm Corps gun customs officers found in the cache - between the 2 halves of the loaf, stitched with thread, reports NTV referring to the " news Agency ". The remaining parts of the gun were wrapped in candy wrappers and containers kinder surprise. Old blades with wooden figural handle and branded 1882 with the inscription " Kondratov ", as Well as wooden scabbard - passenger mask was not just put in the Luggage. Taken things submitted for review, which will set their cultural-historical value. TC (Tula, Korovin) - 1st Soviet serial self-loading Pistol. Designed in 1926 by a gunsmith Sergei Korovin at the design Bureau of Tula arms plant. At the end of 1926 TOZ began production of the gun, in the coming year the Gun was approved for use, having received the official name " Tula Gun, Korovin, sample, 1926 ". However adopted officially adopted was not. In the period from the autumn of 1926 to 1935 was released a few tens of thousand " Korovin, but the exact number of issued pistols unknown. Pistols TC went into service employees of the NKVD of the USSR, middle and senior officers of the red Army, government officials and party officers. Also TC was used in the form of a gift or premium weapons (for example, there are known cases of awarding them the Stakhanovites). After the beginning of the great Patriotic war, 1941-1942 due To the increased need for personal weapons for the Army and the shortage of pistols TT some TC was transferred to the arms of Junior commanders of the red army. In the period After world war II Pistols TC for some time kept in the savings banks as backup weapons for employees and collectors.
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