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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 RussianRussianRussian ?

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 ChineseChinese
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
PolishHungarian

("11" in a circle)

("02" in a circle)