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Receiver Markings
Russian
Russian
Russian
Russian
1944
Shield with Star
(Typical marking)
1944
("1" factory unknown
to me)
1945
("C"=cyrillic S
Stalin Factory)
1943
Stalin Auto Factory (?) or Sestroretzk factory
( Stalin factory started making PPShs in 1942)
-marking below ejection port- (click on thumbnail)
Russian
Russian
Russian
Russian ?
1942
Number "3" or Russian letter for Z?
1942
Kovrov arsenal
(arrow in enlongated oval) (?)
Hammer and sickle in a circle in a star, whose lower points straddle a three-bladed propeller.
(picture courtesy of "gnlvr")
1945 (?)
Chinese
Chinese
Chinese
Chinese
Chinese manufacture mark and serial no. with date at bottom
(2-29-50).
(from "The World's Submachineguns" by Nelson)
1952
(drawing courtesy of Tallahassee Ted)
(drawing courtesy of Tallahassee Ted)
North Korean
Wehrmacht captured?
Bulgarian ?
Iranian
1949
(star inside two circles)
I believe this is a WWII German designate MP717(r) 9mm conversion of a Russian PPSh-41.
1951
("01" in a circle)
1945
Polish
Hungarian
("11" in a circle)
("02" in a circle)