slightly curved, steel chrome-plated fullered blade, handle with orange plastic grip mounted in chrome-plated brass, engraved with letters SSSR in Cyrillic and raised Soviet star framed by laurel wreath, chrome-plated metal scabbard, support rings attached. Length of blade: 81 cm (31 3/4 in.).  For similar examples see: Zdobnov I.P., Kholodnoe oruzhie Krasnoi Armii, 1918-1940, Kiev, 2005, page 138 and Kulinskii A.N., Russkoe kholodnoe oruzhie 18-20 vekov, St. Petersburg, 2001, vol.2, illustration 1.