↑ 170: Voronezh Aviation Production Association
- Made in Russia [1991].
- Aluminum Shaft.
- Shaft: 36x27 mm.
- Fixed head with carabiner hole.
- Curved adze with straight edge.
- Adze: 60(l)x59(w)x0(curve) mm.
- Curved Alpine pick with a neutral-clearance chisel tip and with 7 ventral teeth.
- Pick: 145(l)x21(h)x8(t) mm.
- Round spike.
- Spike: 44(l)x10(d) mm.
- Leash sewn around shaft.
- A short, lightweight alpine axe. I do not prefer round spikes, but the design of this one and the shape of the lower shaft facilitates driving this axe as an anchor.
- This axe was produced in a large numbers and used to be popular among Soviet and Russian climbers.
- Once exported to the USA where they were sold by USHBA under their brand.
