I'm really going to have to get off my tail and start looking into it in more detail. I'm convinced that they had some kind of code they used to increment both the first and second letters. I think it's a pretty good stretch to say the SKS45 is numbered alphabetically and XX = the 1234567th gun produced. They could have gone purely alphabetically such as: AA, AБ, AB, AГ, AД, AЕ, but that sure doesn't seem to the be the case:ġ949 prefixes in Notya's survey & in my photos: АГ, АУ, ГМ, ЕБ, ЕМ, ЖБ, ИЧ, ЛГ, ЛМ, MB, ОВ, РГ, РЖ, РМ, РН, РО, УК

Take 1958 for example:īC then CD then DE then EF (then FE unfortunately,^%*%$^ Romanians!)Ĭyrillic prefixes seem to be all over the place regardless of year with very very few 'repeats'. Take for example Romanian guns with dual letter prefixes, they are in a somewhat logical progression.

One thing that has always bothered me is that the Russian SKSs don't seem to follow the European pattern. He further states, 'The 1st 2 letters represent the production series, & the next 2 digits are the year code'. What's the name of the book & author Tony? The dual Cyrillic prefix system was used long before the SKS as MNs sport them all over the place. According to page 248, of 'The Grim Reaper' 2nd Edition / 2012, by Frank Iannamico, the author states that the recent Bulgarian manufactured AK examples may be dated by a code preceding the weapon's serial number.

Ak 47 Serial Numbers