| Error creating thumbnail: File missing Join our Discord! |
| If you have been locked out of your account you can request a password reset here. |
Berdan Rifle
Berdan rifles were two Russian Army service rifles, designed by Hiram Berdan with the assistance of Russian officers Aleksandr Gorlov and Karl Gunnius. The Berdan No.1 (M1868) had a trapdoor breech block and was very soon replaced with the bolt-action Berdan No.2 (M1870) which was the main rifle of the Russian Army until the Mosin Nagant M1891 was put into service. It existed in full-length Infantry, shortened Dragoon and Cossack, and carbine configurations. Both Berdan models used the same .42 caliber cartridge ("4,2 line" in the old Russian measurment system). Besides the Russian Empire, Berdan M1870 rifles were used by Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Ethiopia, Mongolia, and Korea.
In the early 1900s, many surplus Berdan rifles were converted into bolt-action shotguns in 16 to 32 Gauge. Such guns were known as "berdanka", and this nickname became a common Russian name for all bolt-action shotguns.
Specifications
Berdan No.2 Rifle
(1870 - 1891)
- Type: Bolt-action rifle
- Country of Origin: Russian Empire
- Caliber: 10.67x58mm R
- Weight: 9.3 lbs (4.2 kg)
- Length: 51.2 in (130 cm)
- Barrel Length: 32.7 in (83 cm) (Infantry rifle)
- Capacity: 1
The Berdan Rifle and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Queen of Spades | on the wall | 1916 | ||
| The New Babylon | French revolutionary | Berdan No.2 | 1929 | |
| Dzhulbars | Nikolay Teleshyov | Beggar | Converted shotgun | 1935 |
| Peasant | ||||
| The Golden Taiga (Zolotoye ozero) | V. Tolstova | Marina | Converted shotgun | 1935 |
| Fighting Film Collection No. 6 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 6) | Partisans | Berdan No.2 | 1941 | |
| White Fang | Indians | Berdan No.2 | 1946 | |
| Heroes of Shipka (Geroite na Shipka) | Russian and Bulgarian soldiers | Berdan No.2 | 1955 | |
| Heroes of Shipka (Geroite na Shipka) | Russian Cossacks | Berdan No.2 Carbine | 1955 | |
| 1918 (Vosemnadtsatyy god) | White Cossack | Berdan No.2 Carbine | 1958 | |
| Dersu Uzala | Kasym Dzhekibayev | Dersu Uzala | 1961 | |
| Hussar Ballad (Gusarskaya ballada) | Russian and French soldiers | Berdan No.2, mocked up as flintlock musket | 1962 | |
| Wedding in Malinovka (Svadba v Malinovke) | Mikhail Pugovkin | Yashka the Artilleryman | Converted shotgun | 1967 |
| Personally Known (Lichno izvesten) | Revolutionaries | Berdan No.2 | 1958 | |
| Dersu Uzala | Maksim Munzuk | Dersu Uzala | 1975 | |
| The Lost Expedition (Propavshaya ekspeditsiya) | Boris Smorchkov | Aleksey Kumanin | Berdan No.2 | 1975 |
| Aleksandr Kaidanovsky | Kirill Zimin | |||
| Nikolay Olyalin | Silantiy | |||
| Peasant Son (Krestyanskiy syn) | A Red partisan | 1975 | ||
| The Evil Spirit of Yambuy (Zloy dukh Yambuya) | Rodna Yeshonov | Kararbakh | Converted shotgun | 1977 |
| The Turkish Gambit (Turetskiy gambit) | Egor Beroev | Erast Petrovich Fandorin | 2005 | |
| The Turkish Gambit (Turetskiy gambit) | Russian soldiers | 2005 | ||
| Piranha (Okhota na piranyu) | Aleksey Gorbunov | Kuzmich | 2006 | |
| Piranha (Okhota na piranyu) | Bolot Bairyshev | Evenk | 2006 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Adjutant of His Excellency (Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva) | Yuri Medvedev | Nikita | Converted shotgun | 1969 |
| Andrei Petrov | Nikolay Sirotin | |||
| Born by Revolution: Assault (Rozhdyonnaya revolyutsiey: Napadenie) | Russian revolutionaries | Seen in documentary footage | 1974 | |
| Lenin...The Train | Russian soldier | Berdan No.2 | 1988 | |
| His Majesty's Secret Service (Sekretnaya sluzhba Ego Velichestva) | Alina Van Orton | Lyuba | Converted shotgun | 2006 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Mods | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 | Berdanka | 2014 | ||
| Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 | Not usable | 2017 |