Cossack Outpost (Kazachya zastava)
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Cossack Outpost Kazachya zastava ) is a 1982 historical adventure movie directed by Viktor Zhivolub. Aleksey Butov (Borislav Brondukov ), a Cossack of Amur Cossack Host, returns home in 1923 after the World War I and Russian Civil war. But Aleksey was considered dead from 1915, and his wife now has a new family. Meanwhile Aleksey's native stanitsa (Cossacks village), located on the Russian-Chinese border, suffers attacks of Honghuzi (Chinese bandtis) and former White Army men under the leadership of Anna Morozova, a widow of White officer. Aleksey raises fellow villagers to defend the border.
The following weapons were used in the film Cossack Outpost (Kazachya zastava) :
Revolvers Nagant M1895 Nagant M1895 revolvers are seen throughout the movie, used by Former White Army Rotmistr (Capt.) Stepan Morozov (Nikolay Lavrov ), his widow Anna Morozova (Anna Tveleneva ), Cossack Yakov Morozov (Evgeniy Papernyy ) and some bandits.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Nagant M1895 Revolver - 7.62x38R Nagant. Note the angular front sight which was used from 1930s. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Stepan Morozov draws his Nagant on Aleksey Butov. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Nagant and jewelry, confiscated from Stepan Morozov by Aleksey Butov. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A bandit (Aleksandr Milyutin ) holds Yakov at gunpoint with his Nagant. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bandit Irod (Lev Perfilov ) carries a Nagant holster. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Anna Morozova, the head of a gang of former White Army men, holds a Nagant. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Anna Morozova with a Nagant. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Yakov disarms one of the bandits... Error creating thumbnail: File missing ...and fires at Anna. Pistols Mauser C96 Several Honghuzi , including their chieftan Liu Fang-Chin (Bolot Beyshenaliev ), carry Mauser C96 pistols.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pre-War dated Mauser C96 "Broomhandle" Commercial Version - 7.63x25mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Honghuz carries a Mauser C96 in holster. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Liu Fang-Chin carries a Mauser C96 in holster. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Honghuz (Mentai Utepbergenov ) holds a Mauser C96. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Liu Fang-Chin draws his pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Honghuz (Oleg Li ) holds a Mauser at the left. Luger P08 Kravchenko (Igor Ivanov ), the head of GPU (Soviet state security in 1920s) of the town of Blagoveshchensk, carries a Luger P08 holster. A P08 (likely same prop) is used in action by White officer Semyon (Vladimir Khotinenko ). In the climactic scene Semyon's pistol is used by Aleksey Butov (Borislav Brondukov ).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Luger P08 - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Kravchenko carries a Luger holster (it's hard to define if the holster contains appropriate pistol or is empty). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Semyon, one of the members of Anna Morozova's gang, carries a Luger in holster (the grip is seen). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Semyon holds a Luger. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Semyon holds his pistol at the right. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Aleksey Butov picks up Semyon's pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Aleksey holds the Luger. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Aleksey carries the pistol tucked in his belt. Rifles Mosin Nagant M1938 Carbine Out of time Mosin Nagant M1938 Carbines are most often seen rifles in the movie, used by Cossacks, notably Aleksey Butov (Borislav Brondukov ), Terentiy (Igor Ledogorov ), Gavrila (Aleksandr Yakovlev ) and Yerofeich (Gennadi Chetverikov ), Honghuzi and Anna Morozova's bandits.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mosin Nagant M1938 Carbine - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing Yerofeich carries an M38 Carbine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gavrila with a carbine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Honghuzi rob Yakov Morozov's house. Two of them are armed with M38 Carbines.Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Aleksey Butov carries a carbine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A bandit (Yuriy Sorokin ) runs with a carbine in hand. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A bandit (Aleksandr Milyutin ) carries a carbine at the background. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Terentiy with a carbine on watchtower. In previous scene he is seen with Winchester Model 1895 that switches to an M38 Carbine due to a continuity error. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Terentiy in shootout with bandits. Winchester Model 1895 Winchester Model 1895 rifles are seen in several scenes, used by Cossacks and native hunters of Goldi people.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Russian contract Model 1895 in 7.62x54 Russian. Note the loading bridge over the reciever Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Winchester Model 1895 Russian Contract (note the loading bridge over the reciever) and a Bebut M1907 dagger are seen on the wall in Yakov Morozov's house. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of Yakov's Winchester on the wall. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vasyatka (Vasiliy Sorokin), Aleksey Butov's son, holds Terentiy's Winchester. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Terentiy (Igor Ledogorov ) checks his rifle before the duty on watchtower. During the following shootout his Winchester switches to an M38 Carbine (see above). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Goldi hunters in their national dress hold Winchesters. Mauser Karabiner 98k In the opening scene, set in 1915 on Eastern Front of WW1, German soldiers carry anachronistic Karabiner 98k rifles, standing for Gewehr 98 rifles.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Karabiner 98k - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Cossack attacks a Mauser-wielding German sentry during the raid of Plastuns (Cossack scouts) on enemy trenches. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A bayonet on Mauser rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Close combat in trench. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An abandoned German rifle in trench. A Cossack at the foreground holds a Bebut M1907 dagger. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Abandoned German rifles in trench. Pattern 1914 Enfield Bandit Irod (Lev Perfilov ) uses a Pattern 1914 Enfield rifle.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pattern M1914 (P 14) Enfield - .303 UK Error creating thumbnail: File missing Irod fires at Kravchenko. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Irod with his Enfield rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Irod holds an Enfield rifle (at the right). Machine Guns Degtyaryov DT (visually modified to resemble Lewis) Two Degtyaryov DT machine guns, visually modified to resemble Lewis Gun , are used in the movie. One of these machine guns, with light brown wood on buttstock, is seen in hands of Aleksey Butov (Borislav Brondukov ) when he confiscates the gun from local richman Fedot Makeyich (Anatoliy Popolzukhin). Another fake Lewis, with dark, nearly black furniture, is seen mounted on a patrol boat of border guards, then captured by Anna Morozova's gang and used by Irod (Lev Perfilov ). During the climactic shootout Butov also uses this prop instead of the one, seen earlier.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing DT machine gun - 7.62x54mm R. DT could be dismounted from the tank or armored car and used with a bipod as a light machine gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lewis Gun - .303 British Error creating thumbnail: File missing Aleksey Butov confiscated a "Lewis" from Fedot Makeyich. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Kravchenko (Igor Ivanov ) fires at bandtis from the boat. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The machine gun next to dead Kravchenko. Note the absence of a hole in a detail below the reciever; on another machine gun of fake Lewis it has a hole (see below). Error creating thumbnail: File missing A bandit (Vyacheslav Sumskoy) carries the machine gun at the background. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Aleksey's "Lewis". This machine gun has a hole in the detail below the reciever. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Irod with the machine gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Aleksey with the machine gun. This is the "second" gun, with dark wood on buttstock. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Irod opens fire. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Irod frantically fires the machine gun. Maxim A Maxim (M1910 or M1910/30) in seen in the Blagoveshchensk GPU building.
Russian Maxim 1910 on Sokolov wheel mount with shield - 7.62x54mmR Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Maxim is seen at the background. Other Weapons F-1 Hand Grenade Bandit Filya (Anatoli Pereverzev ) carries an out of time F-1 hand grenade (it may stand for British Mills Bomb , used during Russian Civil war).
F-1 High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Filya carries an F-1 on his belt. 
