Russian knives - who interested?

Some good looking knives there. I did not know about the length limit on the autos and butterfly knives. Still better than most places in the U.S. Gun laws are a different story. I was in Moscow when the U.S. embassy got shot at and some people were not too happy with Americans. I carried at least one knife all the time. Also picked up this thing (I am sure you have seen them) at the large flea market (forget the name at the moment). It was a metal tube with a bottle opener on one end. You can unscrew the bottle opener to reveal a small blade. The blade appeared useless, but the bottle opener end would seem to make a good impact weapon.
 
Yes, prices are not very high, but typical salary of programer in Moscow, for example, is about 500$ ( full-timer with high education and 2-3 year expirience ). At province, typical will be 200$. Prices at foreign markets will be much higher, i think. Anybody wants to shop in Russia for knives? ;) (no bears on streets of Moscow) ;)))
 
Dmitry, the Finnish looking Smersh knives look very appealing.:

smersh1-4.jpg

smersh5.jpg


Are there other Russian manufacturers of puuko style knives?
 
IMHO, Smersh series of NOKS is not very good, except Smersh-5. Thin tip (some guys reported, that they broke it). Here is my "UK" (Uzhniy krest) (is it puuko?):

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Actually, blade is a bit larger then on photo. Some perespective aberrations.
 
Wow Dmitry! Thanks for coming to the forums and giving us all of this information! I look forward to more of your posts.
 
Are there any websites to visit where we could get ahold of one of these knives before the prices doubles or triples? I like the look of a couple of those.
 
I saw the same knives in the latest issue of Tactical Knives. There was a good review on these blades but the curve of the blade doesnn't really do it for me.
 
Give the guy a break. I can type in russian (if I had a cyrillic keyboard) but I know there would be more errors in my russian writing than in his eniglish.
 
A bit more about Russian laws - they are not too good. But, of couse, there are many countries, which laws are more, more draconic.
In few words, there are four criterias of civilian knives: blade thickness<2.5 mm OR non-safe handle (for piercing) OR rounded tip OR small blade (9 cm, but i don't shure about this one). So, if knife has one of this parameters, it can be certified as "utility knife" or "expedition knife" (in case of rounded tip), and is sold without any limitations.
Autos, gravity knives and butterflys are allowed only whith blade <9 cm. Generally, butterfly in Russia has "criminal" aura.
Throwing knives are illegal too.

But most knives i want own, i can own legally.

If anybody interested, i can overview "traditional russian criminal blades".
 
Hm...
One guy asked his friend alter blade curve so smersh-4 become smersh-3, and then he sold it.
Some other guys reported that steal is weak. There are 2kinds of smresh 1-4: whith 2.4mm thin blade and 4 mm thick blade (rare). First are weak, second better.
 
Dmitry, thank you for joining the forum and dealing with the difficulties of a foreign language. Your English is excellent and your knife information is very interesting.

How is your access to the knives that are common in the American market (the good ones discussed on these forums, not the Chinese junk)? It sounds like you have Spyderco knives. That is great. Are American knife brands affordable there?
 
I have Spyderco Endura - good knife.
Most foreign knives are available in Moscow - Spyderco, Benchmade, CRKT, HK, MOD, Microtech, Helle and many others ( check http://www.knife.ru/catalog.php3?pTp=1&pMk=5 for folders, prices are in USD ). But most are too expensive for us, often peple prefer one fixed-blade russian knife, or one of Swiss army knives, or even ugly peace of iron from china - anyway, it can cut (a little, for a while).
 
Hi Dmitry and welcome to the Forums!

<a href="http://www.sergium.izet.pl/images/knives/russian/osa_01.jpg" target="_blank"><IMG align=right SRC="http://www.sergium.izet.pl/images/knives/russian/osa_01_tn.jpg" border="2"></a>I have visited Moscow knife show in exhibition hall MIR last year November and I had the opportunity to know NOKS and Igor Skrilev’s knives somewhat closer. I also have made some photos.
Must say I was not impressed at all with nor their design neither execution quality.

<a href="http://www.sergium.izet.pl/images/knives/russian/osa_02.jpg" target="_blank"><IMG align=left SRC="http://www.sergium.izet.pl/images/knives/russian/osa_02_tn.jpg" border="2"></a>I have caused the lock on this one (left) to fail just hitting my left palm with the blade spine. The quality of the others was somewhere between tragic and pitiful. I could recommend these knives to everyone with clearly masochistic penchants. Someone who advised you to get SPYDERCO at this price point certainly knew what he (or she) is talking about.

I have met Mr. Skrilev at IWA literally some days ago. He naturally read my article in 6’2001 issue of Russian Gun Magazine (Saint- Petersburg) with a lot of criticism on his designs and execution quality but he seemed not to be angry on me. I understand him – he makes his business and he will prosper as long as someone will want to buy his “cool looking fighting-killing” inventions. Probably criticizing his knives I have made him more advertising than he could get for money...

<a href="http://www.sergium.izet.pl/images/knives/russian/Silver_Age_02.jpg" target="_blank"><IMG align=right SRC="http://www.sergium.izet.pl/images/knives/russian/Silver_Age_02_tn.jpg" border="2"></a>It is just me but I like such knives from Russia much more...
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