The Tokarev TT-33 is a self-loading pistol designed by Fyodor Tokarev in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. It - or rather, its preceding design, the TT-30 - was developed to succeed the Red Army's aging Nagant M1895 revolvers in the 1930s and was adopted in 1931. The pistol was refined into TT-33 through experience and had supplanted the TT-30 in service by 1935.
It was a widely spread pistol within the Communist bloc, with licenced copies being produced in Yugoslavia, China, Poland and Hungary. More than 1,700,000 of them were produced in the Soviet Union until 1953. It was succeeded by Makarov PM, with most of the communist bloc countries that adopted the TT-33 following suit.
Film appearances[]
Milos Columbo (Chaim Topol) holding a Tokagypt 58
For Your Eyes Only (film)[]
Milos Columbo uses a Tokagypt 58 (a Hungarian-Egyptian TT-copy chambered in 9×19mm Parabellum) during the Albanian warehouse raid and during the raid of St. Cyril's.
Octopussy (film)[]
A TT-33 appears shortly when General Orlov uses a one to smash the Fabergé egg Bond brought with him to India.
A View to a Kill (film)[]
Scarpine draws a Tokagypt 58 on Bond after the latter discovers murdered Tibbett in the Rolls-Royce. Later, Gogol's KGB bodyguard Venz draws a authentic TT-33 after May Day hurls Klotkoff down.
Skyfall (film)[]
A TT-33 appears in the hands of a man in the BBC broadcast, who executes a MI6 undercover operative who had been exposed by the leak.
Game appearances[]
GoldenEye 007 (1997 game)[]
Appears as Dostovei DD44.
GoldenEye 007 (2010 game)[]
The Tokarev is represented as the "Torka T3". It is a low power handgun, though it does have a quicker rate of fire than the P99 and has a fast reload time. It can be found in the single player, as well as the online play. It has an 8 round clip and is semi-automatic.
007 Legends[]
Appears again as a "Torka T3", based on 2010 GoldenEye 007 appearance. In both games' online mode, the Torka is unlocked from the very beginning at rank 1.
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Trivia[]
- While the gun itself doesn't appear in the movie GoldenEye, Valentin Zukovsky draws a similar gun, a CZ 52, to shoot towards Bond at the bar. Although CZ 52 is a further evolution of TT-33 design (using a different recoil operated, roller locked action) it was developed in communist Czechoslovakia and uses the same 7.62×25mm Tokarev ammo as TT-33.