cold war period russian 1952 pattern naval officer's dagger dated 1984.

A beautiful original piece complete with all its original fittings, mounts, and belt, in superb condition. A maker named BYNAM. Nice original USSR navy dagger, with all its original gilding, complete with its original dress belt, buckle, and hanging straps. Very good clean blade. For the most part, Russian sailors welcomed the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which they participated. Earlier, in 1905, sailors of the Imperial Russian battleship Potemkin in the Black Sea Navy revolted. In 1906 rebellious soldiers gained control of some Helsinki coastal fortifications during events known as the Viapori Rebellion, which was subsequently put down, following
bombardments from ships of the Baltic Fleet which remained loyal to the Tsarist government. 'The first ship of the Soviet Navy could be considered to be the rebellious Imperial Russian cruiser Avrora, whose blank shot from a forecastle gun signaled the October Revolution. In March 1921, the sailors of Kronshtadt rebelled against the Bolsheviks, demanding freedom of speech and the closing of concentration camps, but this belated revolt was ruthlessly suppressed by Leon 'Trotsky. After the Revolution, the Navy's restoration was slow, and only with the beginning of industrialization in 1930 was a large shipbuilding program developed, but not
accomplished before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, As a result, the Soviet Navy during World War I1 consisted of some old World War I-era ships, some modem pre-war built cruisers and destroyers, and a number of torpedo boats.

Unfortunately for the Soviets, much of their Fleet on the Baltic Sea was blocked in Leningrad and Kronshtadt by Finnish and German minefields during 1941-1944 and maimed by mines and air attacks, nevertheless numerous sorties by attack boats and submarines actions were held. On the Black sea with the loss of main naval base Sevastopol, and effective actions of axis aviation as well as minefields navy limited the efficiency of large surface ships. 'The Northern Fleet, composed mostly of destroyers (World War I Novik-class and more modern project 7 and 7u vessels),played a major role in anti-aircraft and anti-submarine defense of allied convoys heading to Murmansk. During the Cold War, the Soviets gave their navy a number of missions, in addition to its role as one of the legs of the nuclear triad, the navy was supposed to destroy American SSBNs and carrier groups, interdict NATO lines of communications, and assist the ground forces in continental theatre offensives. They were quick to equip their surface fleet with missiles of various sorts, In fact, it became a hallmark of Soviet design to place large anti-ship missiles onto relatively small and fast missile boats. The Soviet Navy also possessed several very large guided missile cruisers with great lire power, such as those of the Kirov class and the Slava class cruisers. In the 1980s the Soviet Navy acquired its first true aircraft carrier, 'Tbilisi (subsequently renamed Admiral Kuznetsov). In some respects, including speed and reactor technology later Soviet submarines were, and remain, some of the world's best. Their primary shortcomings were insufficient noise damping (American boats were quieter) and sonar technology. The Soviets possessed numerous purpose-built guided missile submarines, such as the Oscar class, as well as many ballistic missile submarines, such as the Delta class submarines, and attack submarines, such as the Victor and Akula class submarines. The Soviet Navy's Typhoon class boats are the world's largest submarines. The Soviet attack submarine force was, like the rest of the navy, geared towards the interception of NATO convoys, but also targeted American aircraft carrier battle groups. Like the WW2 German naval daggers directly after the war, they were once more easily available, now they are simply evaporating from the market and will soon be as valuable and as rare as their German Kriegsmarine equivalent. This is an absolute gem of an example and likely impossible to better. Weight:1.4 kg.Unused blades, no marks, no dents.In pristine condition.Issued to WW-II German Naval officers.Australia/ New Zealand/ Asia postage is very expensive.
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