To Survive (Chtoby vyzhit)

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Chtoby vyzhit DVD cover Country Russia Directed by Vsevolod Plotkin Release Date 1992 Language Russian Studio Rolan Bykov Foundation Cinewest Entertainment Group Inc. Raven Star Pictures Main Cast Character Actor Oleg Vladimir Menshov Nikolai Sergey Veksler Jafar Aleksandr Rozenbaum Yura Dmitri Volkov Igor Marchuk Andrey Shcherbovich-Vecher Kochmat Murad Aliyev Abdy Anvar Kendzhayev

To survive (Chtoby vyzhit; Russian: Чтобы выжить) is a 1992 Russian thriller. Emissary of the former "party mafia", nicknamed "Jafar" prepares and implements a series of provocations and terrorist acts on the outskirts of the country to create the preconditions for a coup. During a attack on one of the army armories wounded his conductor.

Bandits urgently need to smuggle across the Afghan border caravan with drugs. As a conductor Jafar tries to use the former army officer - Oleg, wherefore bandits taking hostage his son. Oleg and his army friend, Nikolai, using all his experience of the war in the mountains, enters into an unequal deadly struggle against a gangs...

The following weapons were used in the film To Survive (Chtoby vyzhit):

Handguns

Unknown revolver

One of Jafar henchmen armed unknown revolver.

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Stechkin APS

Oleg (Vladimir Menshov) uses Stechkin APS.

Stechkin APS - 9x18mm Makarov

Oleg holds Stechkin APS

Makarov PM

One of Jafar henchmen armed Makarov PM.

Russian Makarov PM - 9x18mm Makarov

At the beginning of the film, in an attack on a police station, one of the gangsters carries supressed Makarov PM.

Silenced Makarov PM.

Gangster fires silenced PM.

Submachine guns

Heckler & Koch MP5K

Jafar (Aleksandr Rozenbaum), throughout the film carries MP5K with 15-round magazine.

Heckler & Koch MP5KN with 15-round magazine - 9x19mm

Czech Sa.26

Some bandits uses Sa.26 submachine guns.

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Czech Sa.26 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm

Gangster, disguised as a policeman fires supressed Sa.26

Gangster holds Sa.26

Jafar's man with Sa.26

Assault rifles

AK47

One Jafar's man armed AK47.

Type II AK-47 (note stock mounting bracket) with prototype slab sided magazine - 7.62x39mm

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AKS-74U

Plenty AKS-74U rifles seen at the beginning of the movie in the armory in a police station.

AKS-74U (also referred to as the "AKSU" or 'Krinkov') - 5.45x39mm

AKS-74U in armory.

AKS-74

Jafar uses in the end of the movie AKS-74 with GP-25 grenade launcher.

AKS-74 - 5.45x39mm

GP-25 grenade launcher - 40mm

Jafar fires AKS-74

M16A1

Nikolai (Sergey Veksler) uses M16A1 rifle with XM148 grenade launcher.

Colt M16A1 with 30 round magazine - 5.56x45mm

XM148, 40x46mm

Heckler & Koch G3A4

Nikolai used Heckler & Koch G3A4.

Heckler & Koch G3A4 - 7.62x51mm NATO

Shotguns

Unknown pump-action shotgun

Nikolai (Sergey Veksler) used unknown pump-action shotgun.

Rocket launchers

RPG-7

Nikolai uses against Jafar's bandits RPG-7.

RPG-7 with PG-7VM rocket and PGO-7 scope - 40mm