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Soviet Army NR-40 combat knife. The NR-40 (from Russian: нож разведчика, НР-40 nozh razvedchika meaning "scout's knife" or Finka) was a Soviet combat knife introduced in 1940 and used throughout World War II. The NR-40 has a 152 mm (6.0 in) blade with a clip point, a large ricasso, a black wooden handle, and an S-shaped guard ...
A modern Yakutian knife with birch burl (burr) handle and leather sheath.. The Yakutian knife (Yakut: саха быһаҕа, romanized: saxa bıhağa; Russian: якутский нож), sometimes called the Yakut knife, is a traditional knife of the Yakuts (an ethnic group from the Sakha Republic (or Yakutia), region of Siberia), used for working with wood, hides, skins, fish and meat or for ...
In the Jalisco region of Mexico, Los Machetes is a popular folk dance. This dance tells the story of cutting down sugar cane during the harvest. Los Machetes was created by Mexican farm workers who spent a great amount of time perfecting the use of the tool, the machete, for harvesting. Traditionally, real machetes are used while performing ...
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The NRS-2 (Нож Разведчика Стреляющий, "Scout Firing Knife") (official GRAU index 6P25U) is a gun hybrid with a combination of a knife blade and a built-in single-shot shooting mechanism designed to fire a 7.62×41mm SP-4 (СП-4) cartridge, originally designed for the PSS silent pistol.
A puukko (Finnish pronunciation:) is a small traditional Finnish general purpose belt knife with a single curved cutting edge, solid hidden tang, and usually, a flat spine. Military models of puukko were popular in the Russian criminal underworld under the name "Finnish knife" or finka since the 20th century.
Russian Armed Forces Russia MP-443 Grach Yarygin pistol 9×19mm Parabellum: 2003–present one of the standard sidearms for all branches of Russian Armed forces 6P35 Yarygin (prototype) 9×19mm Parabellum. MP-446 Viking (commercial) 9×19mm Parabellum. MP-446C (sporting variant) 9×19mm Parabellum Russia SR-1 Vektor Serdyukov pistol 9×21mm Gyurza
The TP-82 was the result of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov's concerns after being stranded in the Siberian wilderness when his Voskhod capsule malfunctioned. He feared that the 9x18mm Makarov pistol that was provided in his survival kit would be ineffective against the Siberian wildlife, such as Eurasian brown bears and Eurasian wolves.