Chekist's knife (X12MF, Karelian birch)
Product description
Finka NKVD-replica knife. In the early-mid-1930s, in the RSFSR, NKVD employees received a Finnish knife (in some documents, "Norwegian knife" or "Swedish type") as a special tool, manufactured in several varieties by the Trud factory (formerly the factory of the industrialist Kondratov) in the village of Vacha Nizhny Novgorod region. The basis of the "NKVD knife" was a copy of the Swedish knife made by P. Holmberg, which was banned as a "Finnish knife".
