Tokarev SVT-40

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

Specifications

(1940 - cca. 1943)

• 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; 15-round magazines for AVT-40 are existed. There was also an experimental 20-round drum magazine.

• Fire Modes: Semi-Auto, Semi-Auto/Full-Auto (AVT-40)

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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
		Red Army soldiers
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 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
		Soviet Marines
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
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
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 aka "Der Untergang"		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
		The military history club member
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
	Valeriy Grishko	Gen. Petrov
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
To Paris! (Na Parizh)		Soviet soldiers		2019
Kalashnikov (2020)		Red Army soldier		2020

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
Hunting the Devil (Okhota na dyavola)		NKVD personnel	Early and late versions	2017

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
Enemy Front	SVT-40 SCOPED	Scoped		2014
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly		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