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I just received one of the type 56, from Classic.  Their packing job sucks.  One piece of small bubble wrap, in a box 3x too big.  Box was torn up and the forearm word had a new chip taken out.   I'm surprised there wasn't more damage done.  Anyways, after cleaning it up it's a pretty nice gun.

It has a 6 digit serial number (I paid for all matching sn), to the left of the triangle 56.  There are no Chinese characters any where.    Is this a first year, 1956, Sino-Soviet?

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Howdy,

Yes, it's a 1956 but not what is commonly known as a "Sino-Soviet"<SS>.  The SS's have a letter followed by a (usually) 4-digit number.  There is debate about which came first, although I lean toward the SS being before the 6-digit rifles.  These coming from Albania are the first 6-digit Model 56 /26\  I've ever seen.  


The commonly used dating system for the Factory 26 Model 56 SKS is: anything below 1 million = 1956, 1 million = 1957, 2 million = 1958, etc.  Hope this helps.


Cheers