↑ 170: Voronezh Aviation Production Association
- Made in Russia [1991].
- 700x265 mm.
- Weight: 850 g.
- Aluminum Shaft.
- Shaft: 36x27 mm.
- Fixed head with carabiner hole.
- Curved adze with a straight edge and no arch.
- Adze: 60(l)x59(w)x0(arch) 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 into glacial snow for using the 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.
