The guns were assembled entirely, or nearly entirely from Russian parts. Electropenciled serials can be found on the bolt, the underside of the gas tube, and sometimes on the gas piston. The numbered parts on the metal contain the entire or partial serial number, and are stamped on the receiver cover, trigger group, magazine, bolt carrier, left side buttstock (which omits the letter prefix). The main serial number is found on the left front of the receiver, followed by the factory symbol, which can sometimes be lightly stamped and/or partially obscured by the wood line of the stock. These guns are identified by a serial number which generally consists of a Latin letter, followed by a four digit number, i.e. The first rifles that were stamped with the /26\ arsenal mark are designated as the Sino-Soviet Type-56 SKS. The designation of the new model was called the Type-56.Įarly manufacturing utilized Soviet parts at the Jianshe Arsenal, Factory /26\. In that period, the Soviets sold their tooling, parts, design specifications, and provided engineering support in order for China to begin production of the SKS. As a result, assembly of the SKS at the Tula Arsenal dwindled to a trickle into early 1956. In late 1955, the Soviet Union was ramping up production of the AK-47.
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