From the history of Soviet small arms (1934-1984)

A military representative inspects a batch of manufactured submachine guns in 1942. New submachine guns in a factory pyramid.

Assembly of anti-aircraft guns in a workshop at one of the factories.

Children at the factory assemble submachine guns for the active army, check the cleanliness of the barrel bore.

Rifle stocks are turned on a machine, a master checks the work of an apprentice.

Views of parts of city blocks (from above), construction of a new house.

Workers assemble submachine guns, check the ease of inserting the cartridge disk.

A memorial plaque dedicated to the inventor of the three-line rifle Mosin S.I., a museum stand with a portrait of Mosin.

A museum stand with light and heavy machine guns that were in service with the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War, portraits of small arms designers.

Examples of Soviet and foreign rifles and machine guns in the museum exposition.

Border guards at one of the outposts are on alert, disassembling weapons from a pyramid in the weapons room.

A border patrol armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles gets out of a truck and follows the trail of an intruder.

Military actions during the Great Patriotic War, German tanks, views of burning and destroyed houses.

Production of collectible weapons at one of the Tula factories, applying patterns to gun barrels, samples of rifles and pistols.

Training of the American Marine Corps, the face of a Marine, a meeting of Western politicians, maneuvers of NATO troops, an American reconnaissance aircraft in flight.

Ordzhonikidze G.K., Voroshilov K.E. hand over to Stalin I.V. a rifle with an optical sight, a gift to the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Stalin looks through the sight, everyone applauds.

A train is moving.

Nurses of the ambulance train care for the wounded.

Captured weapons taken in a battle with Afghan mujahideen in the early 1980s.

Captured mujahideen, the face of one of the captives.

Faces of soldiers of the Afghan People's Army, a Kalashnikov assault rifle in the hands of one of them.

Soldiers of the Afghan army take an oath, holding Kalashnikov assault rifles and submachine guns from the Great Patriotic War.

Soviet motorized rifle troops conduct military operations in Afghanistan.

One of the international conferences on peacekeeping, general view of the conference room (top).

Soviet troops in Afghanistan, the return of a unit after a combat operation, faces of motorized riflemen and tank crews.

A group of combat swimmers goes to the shore to perform a combat training mission.

A Soviet military unit during night exercises.

Maneuvers of NATO troops, faces of soldiers.

A photograph of a killed Soviet soldier in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War.

Singer Ruslanova L.A. gets dressed before a performance on the front line.

Faces of soldiers of the armies of NATO countries.

Harvesting on a collective farm in the early 1940s.

A train heading to the front, a burning tank, an elderly woman's face, a dead soldier.

Soviet troops during exercises in the early 1980s, a burning village in 1941, an orphaned child, a meeting of NATO generals, Soviet troops on exercises.