9 mm Makarov (PM, GRAU index – 56-A-125, unofficial name – ”Makarov”, ”Makar”, “Macaroni,” “Makarych”) – semi-automatic pistol, designed by the Soviet designer Nikolai Fyodorovich Makarov, in 1948
. MP from 1951 until now is the personal weapon of the Soviet and post-Soviet armed forces and law enforcement.
