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Tokarev SVT-40 - 7.62x54mmR. Note the purple color of the bolt; this is a result of post-WWII re-arsenaling, and is thus incorrect for any media taking place during the war.

Tokarev SVT-40 with PU sniper scope - 7.62x54mmR

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 production numbers 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 Production of the SVT-40 ceased in 1945, and it was withdrawn from service shortly after the end of the war.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. The AKT and SKT carbine versions were also produced in small quantities from 1940 - 1943. 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 a single magazine in the field (a trait ubiquitously and falsely attributed to the 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 a lack of 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 and are most likely to be found at 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
Antosha Rybkin		Red Army soldiers		1942
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
The Naval Mettle (Morskoy kharakter)		Soviet Marines		1970
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
Paradox Soldiers (My iz budushchego 2)		The military history club member		2010
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
Battle of Sevastopol (Bitva za Sevastopol)	Valeriy Grishko	Gen. Petrov	Sniper variant	2015
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
The Axe. 1943 (Topor. 1943)		Soviet and German soldiers		2021

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
The Interpreter (Perevodchik)		German soldiers		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
Love, Death & Robots - Season 1		Soviet soldier	"Secret War" (S1E18)	2019

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-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 production numberS 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.
+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 production numbers 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. The AKT and SKT carbine versions were also produced in small quantities from 1940 - 1943. The former was select-fire, and interestingly preceded the full-size AVT.