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Tokarev SVT-40
The SVT-40 is a Soviet semi-automatic battle rifle introduced in 1940, replacing its predecessor the SVT-38. It was intended as a replacement for the Mosin-Nagant M91/30 as the Soviet Union's service rifle, but its production number fell sharply in 1941 and 1942, and only small quantities were produced in 1943 - 1945, with later releases immediately going to the reserve. Production of the SVT-40 ceased in 1945, and it was withdrawn from service shortly after the end of the war.
From 1942 - 1943, the select-fire AVT-40 variant was also produced. Also were produced AKT and SKT carbine versions in 1940 - 1943, in small quantities. The former was select-fire, and interestingly preceded the full-size AVT.
The SVT/AVT was also the only Soviet rifle with a detachable magazine to be issued with single magazine in the field (a trait ubiquitously and falsely attributed to Fedorov Avtomat). Originally, the rifles were issued with three magazines, but by 1943, they were only issued with one. This is for several reasons: in addition to costs, magazines from various rifles suffered from un-interchangeability, and could be easily lost in battle, and the SVT was on its way to being phased out by the PPSh-41 and the Mosin, so it was easier to equip each rifle with one well-fitted magazine, and reload them with stripper clips (the Gewehr 43 also suffered from such issues, despite attempts to issue more magazines).
There were also 15-round magazines for SVT; they are very rare today, as their production was discontinued in 1942 due to their complexity (since wartime production couldn't maintain the level of quality required for their production), and mostly they are more found on the sites of former battles. A 20-round drum was also tested, but it was considered unreliable and quickly discontinued.
Specifications
(1940 - 1945)
- Type: Battle Rifle
- Caliber: 7.62x54mmR
- Weight: 8.5 lbs (3.9 kg)
- Length: 48.3 in (122.6 cm)
- Barrel length: 24.6 in (62.5 cm)
- Capacity: 10-round detachable box magazine (may be loaded with 5-round stripper clips); rare 15-round magazines are existed. There was also an experimental 20-round drum magazine.
- Fire Modes: Semi-Auto, Semi-Auto/Full-Auto (AVT-40)
The Tokarev SVT-40 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In the Rear of the Enemy (V tylu vraga) | Nikolay Kryuchkov | Nikolay Boykov | 1941 | |
| Aleksandr Grechanyy | Aleksandr Karpenko | |||
| Pavel Shpringfeld | Pavel Balandin | |||
| Red Army soldiers | ||||
| Fighting Film Collection No. 2 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 2) | Boris Shlikhting | A German soldier | 1941 | |
| Pavel Sukhanov | A German soldier | |||
| Larisa Yemelyantseva | The Yugoslavian girl | |||
| Evgeniy Nemchenko | Yanko | |||
| German soldiers and Yugoslavian resistance fighters | ||||
| Fighting Film Collection No. 6 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 6) | Red Army soldiers | 1941 | ||
| Antosha Rybkin | Marina Ladynina | Larisa | With sword bayonet | 1942 |
| Red Army soldiers | ||||
| Fighting Film Collection No. 8 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 8) | Soviet and German soldiers | With sword bayonets, some without magazines | 1942 | |
| Two Soldiers (Dva boytsa) | Red Army soldiers | 1943 | ||
| Invincible (Nepobedimye) | Soviet soldiers | 1943 | ||
| Native Shores (Rodnye berega) | Soviet soldiers | With sword bayonets | 1943 | |
| The Front | Soviet soldiers | With sword bayonets | 1943 | |
| The Last Hill (Malakhov kurgan) | A Soviet sailor | With mockup bayonet | 1944 | |
| No Unknown Soldiers (Net neizvestnykh soldat) | Soviet soldiers | 1965 | ||
| Strong with Spirit (Silnye dukhom) | Soviet soldiers | Seen in documentary footage | 1967 | |
| The Naval Mettle (Morskoy kharakter) | Boris Tokarev | Andrey Krotkikh | 1970 | |
| Soviet Marines | ||||
| Young Winston | Soviet guards of honor | Stock footage of Yalta Conference | 1972 | |
| Poem of Kovpak: Alarm (Duma o Kovpake: Nabat) | A Soviet partisan | Documentary Footage | 1973 | |
| Sokolovo | Ladislav Lakomý | LCpl. Hugo Redisch | 1975 | |
| Kostja and the Radioman (Kostja und der Funker) | Soviet partisans | Seen in documentary footage | 1975 | |
| Poem of Kovpak: Snow-Storm (Duma o Kovpake: Buran) | Viktor Plotnikov | Medved | 1975 | |
| Soldier of Orange | German soldier | Seen in footage from propaganda movie | 1977 | |
| Santa Esperansa | Seen in the pile of guns | 1980 | ||
| Across the Gobi and the Khingan (Govi Khyangand tulaldsan ni) | Soviet soldiers | 1981 | ||
| Under Martial Law (Po zakonam voyennogo vremeni) | Soviet soldiers | 1983 | ||
| Come and See (Idi i smotri) | Aleksey Kravchenko | Florya Gaishun | 1985 | |
| Island of Lost Ships (Ostrov pogibshikh korabley) | Islanders | 1987 | ||
| The Winter War | Soviet & Finnish soldiers | "Stand-in" for the SVT-38 | 1989 | |
| It's We, O God! (Eto mi, Gospodi!..) | Soviet soldiers | 1990 | ||
| Kruglyanskiy Bridge (Kruglyanskiy most) | Vladimir Gritsevskiy | Britvin | 1990 | |
| Flight of the Intruder | NVA soldiers | 1991 | ||
| Afghan Breakdown | Mujaheddins | 1991 | ||
| Sniper | Aleksandr Strizhenov | Timoteo | 1992 | |
| Armen Dzhigarkhanyan | Augusto Savanto | |||
| Nikolai Yeryomenko, Jr. | Jay Benson | |||
| Criminal | ||||
| Ambush (Rukajärven tie) | Soviet sergeant | 1999 | ||
| Enemy at the Gates | Soviet soldiers | 2001 | ||
| Downfall | Soviet soldier | 2004 | ||
| Tali-Ihantala 1944 | Soviet soldier | 2007 | ||
| Defiance | Partisan Fighters | 2008 | ||
| Brother's War | Soviet soldier | 2009 | ||
| Dnieper Line: Love and War | Evgeni Sangadjiev | Soviet soldier | 2009 | |
| The Brest Fortress (Brestskaya Krepost) | Soviet sniper | With PU scope | 2010 | |
| Paradox Soldiers (My iz budushchego 2) | Aleksey Barabash | Taras | 2010 | |
| The military history club member | ||||
| The White Tiger (Belyy tigr) | Soviet soldiers | 2012 | ||
| Stalingrad | Soviet soldiers and sailors | 2013 | ||
| Battle of Sevastopol (Bitva za Sevastopol) | Yuliya Peresild | Ludmila Pavlichenko | Sniper variant | 2015 |
| Valeriy Grishko | Gen. Petrov | |||
| 1944 | Soviet soldiers | 2015 | ||
| Battery Number One (Edinichka) | Soviet and German soldiers | 2015 | ||
| Panfilov's 28 (28 panfilovtsev) | Andrey Bodrenkov | Ivan Shadrin | 2016 | |
| Mikhail Pshenko | Pyotr Dutov | |||
| Dmitriy Girev | Yakov Bondarenko | |||
| Andrey Nekrasov | Illarion Vasilyev | |||
| The Unknown Soldier | Finnish soldier | 2017 | ||
| Tanks for Stalin (Tanki) | A Soviet soldier | 2018 | ||
| To Paris! (Na Parizh) | Soviet soldiers | 2019 | ||
| Kalashnikov (2020) | Red Army soldier | 2020 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note/Episode | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omega Option (Variant "Omega") | Soviet sailors and soldiers | Seen in documentary footage | 1975 | |
| Born by Revolution: On the Night of the 20th (Rozhdyonnaya revolyutsiey: V noch na 20-e) | Soviet soldiers | Seen in documentary footage | 1976 | |
| Eternal Call (Vechnyy zov) - Season 1 | Soviet soldiers | Seen in documentary footage; Ep.9 | 1979 | |
| MacGyver (1985 TV Series) | Afghan Man | "To Be a Man" (S1E17) / changes back and forth between a Lee-Enfield No.4 due to bad continuity | 1986 | |
| Liquidation (Likvidatsiya) | Soviet sailors | With PU scope | 2007 | |
| Snipers. Love Under the Gun (Snaypery. Lyubov pod pritselom) | Soviet soldiers | 2013 | ||
| Ash (Pepel) | Aleksandr Makovskiy | "Pepel"'s henchman | 2013 | |
| Front | Polish partisans | 2014 | ||
| Bitch War (Suchya voyna) | A German soldier | 2014 | ||
| Covert Affairs - Season 5 | Mocked-Up as Fedorov Avtomat | 2014 | ||
| The Flash - Season 1 | with PU scope; Seen in gunshop; "The Fastest Man Alive"(S1E08) | 2014-2015 | ||
| Hunting the Devil (Okhota na dyavola) | NKVD personnel | Early and late versions | 2017 | |
| One Warrior in the Field (Odin v pole voin) | German soldiers | 2018 | ||
| Translation from German (Perevod s nemetskogo) | A State Security operative | 2020 | ||
| The Black Sea (Chyornoye more) | Soviet soldiers and sailors | 2020 | ||
| The Saboteur 3: Crimea (Diversant. Krym) | Soviet sailors and German soldiers and Hilfspolizei. | 2020 | ||
| Dzhulbars | Soviet Border Guards and German soldiers | 2020 |
Video Game
| Game Title | Appears as | Mods | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forgotten Hope | With and without sniper scope | 2003 | ||
| Call of Duty: United Offensive | 2004 | |||
| Call of Duty 2 | 2005 | |||
| The Stalin Subway | SVT-38 | 2005 | ||
| Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 | SVT-40 Semi Auto Rifle | w/o bayonet and PU scope | 2006 | |
| UberSoldier | Scoped version | 2006 | ||
| Forgotten Hope 2 | SVT-40 (can appear with a PU scope) and AVT-40. Both can be fitted with a bayonet | 2007 | ||
| Call of Duty: World at War | 2008 | |||
| Cryostasis | 2009 | |||
| 1968 Tunnel Rats (VG) | 2009 | |||
| Death to Spies: Moment of Truth | 2009 | |||
| Death to Spies: Moment of Truth | Tokarev SVT-40 with PU | 2009 | ||
| Karma Online | 2011 | |||
| Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad | SVT-40 and full-auto AVT-40 | 2011 | ||
| Sniper Elite V2 | SVT-40 | Scoped | Only with pre-order | 2012 |
| State of Decay | "SVT-40" | added in Lifeline DLC (2014) | 2013 | |
| Enemy Front | SVT-40 SCOPED | Scoped | 2014 | |
| World of Guns: Gun Disassembly | SVT-40 | PU scope and bayonet | 2014 | |
| Sniper Elite III | Scoped | 2014 | ||
| Mafia III | with PU | 2016 | ||
| Heroes & Generals | with and without PU scope | 2016 | ||
| Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades | Optional PU scope | 2016 | ||
| Call of Duty: WWII | SVT-40 | 2017 |
Animation
| Title | Voice Actor | Characters | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love, Death & Robots - Season 1 | Uncredited Actor | Maxim | "Secret War" (S1E18) | 2019 |
| Soviet soldier |