Built by NPZ/НПЗ (Новосибирский Приборостроительный Завод/Novosibirsk Instrument-Building Plant), initial production and troops trials began in 1993, with adoption by the MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs) happening on June 7th, 1995 (Pavel, 2010). The НИТЬ appears to have never been adopted by the Russian army as it never received an offical GRAU number. Documented manuals (currently only two) have final inspection dates in 2008 and 2009, suggesting production was restarted at least once by NPZ.

Some military marked scopes are marked НИТЬ-A instead of НИТЬ.

Images



With Russian soldiers.



Reticle.



Serial Numbers

Their appears to be two separate serial number ranges, one for military marked scopes and the other for civilian scopes.

The hammer and sickle style mark was generally reserved by NPZ for military versions of their scopes while the triple triangle logo was used on products intended for commerial sale.

The serial numbers follow NPZ's normal method with civilian market sights having a simple numeric serial number and military marked sights having a letter prefix before the serial number.

Serial	Mark	Images	Notes
00082	NPZ Triangle	1
00463	NPZ Triangle	1
00477	NPZ Triangle	1
00489	NPZ Triangle	1	Manual has an inspection date of March 23, 2008.
00525	NPZ Triangle	1
00540	NPZ Triangle	1
00747	NPZ Triangle	1	Modified for electric illumination.
00802	NPZ Triangle	1	Missing sun shade.
00826	NPZ Triangle	1
00876	NPZ Triangle	1
P0026	NPZ military Hammer and Sickle	1	Scope is marked НИТЬ-A.
P0134	NPZ military Hammer and Sickle	1
P0162	NPZ military Hammer and Sickle	1	Scope is marked НИТЬ-A. Manual has an inspection date of February 21, 2009.

References

Pavel, P. (2010). (Retrieved November 5, 2023) Нить-А - коллиматорный прицел. Описание, характеристики, фотографии, боевое применение. http://www.ak-info.ru/joomla/index.php/devices/9-optics/155-nit


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