Later that year, the M-1907 kindjal was replaced by a shashka in the enlisted ranks of the gendarme troops.  Despite this, the M-1907 kindjal saw extensive service in the battles of the Great War.  It was manufactured by major state factories such as Zlatoust Arms Factory until the revolution of 1917<2>.  The weapon saw some use in during the Civil War and subsequent revolution, but was never officially adopted by the Bolshevik government.

The M-1907 kindjal was a rather compact blade in comparison to the shashka's in use at the time.  This made it easier to carry for the troops of machine gun crews and artillery.  Its primary disadvantage was due to the changing nature of warfare, rather than through any inherent defect.  Close combat between gun crews and cavalry or massed infantry was a rare event in the early 1900's.  Smokeless powder and magazine fed rifles simply extended the lethal range of soldiers, making close actions less likely.  In such situations a modern fighting knife or blade bayonet would be more suitable than the kindjal.  In formations where close combat was expected, such as the cavalry, the kindjal lacked the reach of the longer shashka and was not adopted by those units.

The M-1907 Bebut Kindjal was developed at a time when the Russian Empire was struggling to modernize.  Part of this modernization was its attempts to find how edged weapons were to be employed in the era of magazine rifles, machine guns, and quick firing artillery.  It gradually replaced the longer shashkas in the machine gun and artillery units as it was found to be a more suitable weapon for these men.  Even so, its utility was limited by the rarity of close combat actions in warfare at that time.  It was eventually retired after the Bolshevik revolution as a weapon that had no place in their modern arsenal.