Licensed Production
Production of the TT-33 in Russia ended in 1954, but copies (licensed or otherwise) were also made by other countries.
The TT pistol copies made notably in China as the Type 51, Type 54, M20, and TU-90
Poland produced their own copies as the PW wz.33, manufactured from 1947 to 1959 and Hungary rebarreled the pistol to fire 9×19mm Parabellum as the M48, as well as an export version for Egypt known as the Tokagypt 58 which was widely used by police forces there.
Yugoslavia produced an improved version of the TT-33 as the M57, M65, M70A and the 9×19mm M88. North Korea manufactured them as the Type 68 or M68.
Romania also produced a TT-33 copy as the TTC, or Cugir Tokarov well into the 1950s. These have been made available for commercial sale in great numbers in recent years. However, to be importable into the United States, a trigger blocking safety was added.
Both legal and illegal TT pistols are still manufactured in various Pakistani Khyber Pass factories.
At one time or another most communist or Soviet bloc countries made a variation of the TT-33 pistol, until it was eventually replaced by the 8-round, 9×18mm Makarov PM pistol in 1952.
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