Venäläinen puoliautomaattikivääri m/40 -

Finnish Defence Forces SVT-40 Manual, 19411

The manual was published by the Artillery Command of the Finnish 6th Army Corps (Tyk.Kom/VIAKE) operating in East Karelia in December 1941. During the Continuation War, Artillery Com-mand was often responsible for the small arms and their maintenance.

Under the Finnish Copyright Act2, section 44, the copyright in a work made public without men-tion of the author’s name or generally known pseudonym or pen name shall subsist until 70 yearshave elapsed from the year in which it was made public. According to database kept by the NationalArchives of Finland, there is no secrecy provision for the document under the Act on the Openness ofGovernment Activities (621/1999).3

Original 35.1 x 22.3 cm. Reproduced in 150 DPI. Uploaded on 26 June 2018 to Traditional.fi.

1Original at the National Archives of Finland. T-19055/3. Päämaja. Tykistöosaston jalkaväen asehuoltotoimisto. Salainenkirjeenvaihto 1942.

2Copyright Act (404/1961)3National Archives of Finland, ’AARRE-arkistorekisteri’, http://kronos.narc.fi/aarre/, accessed on 26 June 2018