Romanian sks production numbers serial number#
For Chinese SKS Rifles To get the year of manufacture, add the first digit in the serial number to 1956. The M56 carbines were produced in the Uzina Mecanica Cugir plant in Transylvania.
Romanian sks production numbers serial numbers#
The serial numbers begin with two letters followed by sequence numbers, followed by the year of manufacture. I'm really going to have to get off my tail and start looking into it in more detail. The Romanian SKS rifles check the end of the serial number, there is a dash followed by four numbers, this is the year produced. The Romanian SKS designated as the Model 56 was manufactured in Romania from 1956 to 1962. I'm convinced that they had some kind of code they used to increment both the first and second letters. My first Yugo was also a 1978 and it has been flawless since day one. 1978 was the last year of large scale SKS production in Yugoslavia, after that the numbers went down dramatically. I think it's a pretty good stretch to say the SKS45 is numbered alphabetically and XX = the 1234567th gun produced. There are not many reliable sources available to put it at any particular time or place anymore. They were considered of the highest quality, while the non-Soviet SKS carbines varied significantly in this matter. They could have gone purely alphabetically such as: AA, AБ, AB, AГ, AД, AЕ, but that sure doesn't seem to the be the case:ġ949 prefixes in Notya's survey & in my photos: АГ, АУ, ГМ, ЕБ, ЕМ, ЖБ, ИЧ, ЛГ, ЛМ, MB, ОВ, РГ, РЖ, РМ, РН, РО, УК Although millions of SKS were produced during a short time frame, the SKS carbines were building at the Tula Arsenal from 1949 to 1958 and at the Izhevsk plant from 1953 until 1954. While remaining far less ubiquitous than the AK-47, both original Soviet rifles and foreign variants can still be found today in civilian hands as well as in the arsenals of insurgent groups and paramilitary forces around the world. Take 1958 for example:īC then CD then DE then EF (then FE unfortunately,^%*%$^ Romanians!)Ĭyrillic prefixes seem to be all over the place regardless of year with very very few 'repeats'. In terms of production numbers, the SKS was the ninth most produced self-loading rifle design in history. Take for example Romanian guns with dual letter prefixes, they are in a somewhat logical progression. One thing that has always bothered me is that the Russian SKSs don't seem to follow the European pattern. What's the name of the book & author Tony? The dual Cyrillic prefix system was used long before the SKS as MNs sport them all over the place.
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