You have two Russian letters followed by 4 numbers. This is the standard serializing practice of Russia. When they sent the tooling to China, the guns stared getting one Russian letter followed by 4 numbers. These were stamped with the triangle 26. The first Chinese manufactured guns.
With that said, there is a possibility of a transition period where ther may have been rifles made in China by the old serializing, or they could have done a run with completely different serializing.
I can only make a logical guess based on what we have seen for decades prior to this recent run of imports. Russians were marked a certain way, Chinese a certain way. The old way is all documented very well on yooperj's site.
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