Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has been involved in numerous regional conflicts, which have served as a catalyst in the effort to equip police, infantry, and security services with adequate and practical close-combat weapons. The variety of these weapons is truly astonishing. Ilya Shaydurov documents the full range of Russian close-combat weapons in this book: grenade pistols, grenade launchers, anti-tank rifles, bunker busters, flamethrowers, and many more. Among the featured models are also weapons about which not much has been known due to their use by the KGB and other intelligence services in the past.