✅ SOLVED russian explosive?

[Aquila]

Found this last summer from ww2 battlesite where Germans and Russians fought hard. I eyeballed it from ground and it has russian text and numbers in it? what it might be? mine? grenade? i dont know

 

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[tamrock]

Could very well be an electric detonator. It looks almost like the kind we used in the mines in the 70's, but I don't know what the size of that thing Is?. Non-El's are whats mostly used today underground. Those things have a potential to just go off. Problem was that when they did go off for some unknown reason no witnesses were left to explained exactly what happened and why it went off before they left the shot area. A shot went off in the mine I worked at and blew two miners to bits. A guy I knew on the recovery clean up told me he picked up one miners rubber mine boot with his foot and ankle still in the boot.

 

[Aquila]

it is not very large. place where i found it is full of ww2 trenches and foxholes. shrapnels, cartridges, mortar shells etc. everywhere

 

[NHBandit]

Why is this marked solved ? I don't see any definate answer as to what it is. My first thought was some sort of electrical capacitor.

 

[Backwoodsbob]

I agree with NHBandit

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[Backwoodsbob]

Electrical blasting caps are subject blow with a static charge. Our body's carry a charge that could easily set one off. Maybe that is what happened tamrock when the miners were preparing the lines

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[nhbenz]

Definitely a capacitor as NHBandit suggested: k50 2000uf aluminum oxide capacitor - Google Search
From what I notice online I believe the bottom line of text is the date (so June of 1979).

 

[Aquila]

i guess it could be dropped by soviet soldier during cold war. area where i dug was full of old soviet bases.