length: 1030 mm Blade length: 875 mm Blade width: 36 mm Blade curvature: 62/375 mm Point of balance: 170-180 mm Weight: 1067 g Use There is little or no surviving contemporary written information on how the people of the Caucasus used the shashka. However, surviving Russian military manuals indicate that, despite the lack of protection for the hand, the military shashka was used in much the same manner as a Western European sabre, with very similar cuts, thrusts, guards and parries. In particular, Russian soldiers were not taught to cut in one movement from unsheathing, whatever Caucasus traditions suggest. See also Parikaoba/Farikaoba (:ru:Парикаоба) – traditional Caucasian fencing with shashka and buckler References Cited works Kirill A. Rivkin (no date). "Scaling universality and quantitative analysis of historical edged weapons based on allometric equation", Seagate Technology. Leonid Tarassuk and Claude Blair (1982). The Complete Encyclopedia of Arms & Weapons. Simon and Schuster. Ruslan Urazbakhtin (2018). "Shashka in Late XIX–XX C: Outline of Russian Combat Techniques", Acta Periodica Duellatorum (vol. 6, issue 2), Matyas Miskolczi (ed.) . . External links Steel of Sakartvelo (documentary about traditional Caucasus fencing) Military organization of Cossacks Sabres Single-edged swords Weapons of Russia European swords Russo-Japanese war weapons of Russia Weapons of the Russian Empire kk:Қылыш