List of Russian weaponry makers explained

This list of Russian weaponry makers includes the famous weaponry inventors and engineers of the Tsardom of Russia, Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

Alphabetical list

A

• Nikolay Afanasiev, developer of TKB-011 2M bullpup assault rifle

C

• Andrey Chokhov, maker of the Tsar Cannon, the world's largest bombard by caliber

D

• Vasily Degtyaryov, designer of Degtyaryov-series firearms, co-developer of Fedorov Avtomat, inventor of self-loading carbine
• Yevgeny Dragunov, designer of the Dragunov sniper rifle

F

• Ivan Fyodorov, 16th century inventor of multibarreled mortar, introduced printing to Russia
• Vladimir Fyodorov, one of the chief pioneers of the battle rifle (Fedorov Avtomat) and general-purpose machine gun.^[1]

G

• Leonid Gobyato, inventor of modern mortar
• Vasiliy Grabin, designer of the ZiS-2 anti-tank gun, the best of World War II and one of the most produced in history

K

• Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of AK-47 and AK-74 assault rifles, world's most popular (produced more than all other types of assault rifles combined)
• Yuly Khariton, chief designer of the Soviet atomic bomb, co-developer of the Tsar Bomb
• Nikolai Kibalchich, pioneer of rocketry. The International Astronomical Union honoured the rocketry pioneer by naming a crater on the Moon Kibal'chich.
• Sergei Korolyov, inventor of the soviet unions intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7 Semyorka)
• Mikhail Koshkin, designer of T-34 medium tank, the most produced tank of World War II

L

• Semyon Lavochkin, designer of the La-series aircraft and the first operational surface-to-air missile S-25 Berkut
• Nikolai Lebedenko, designer of the Tsar Tank, the largest armoured vehicle in history

M

• Nikolay Makarov, designed the Makarov pistol, the Soviet Union's standard military side arm from 1951 to 1991
• Victor Makeev, inventor of the Soviet Unions submarine-launched ballistic missile
• Nestor Makhno, anarchist, legendary inventor of tachanka
• Alexander Morozov, designer of T-54/55 (the most produced tank in history), co-developer of T-34
• Sergey Mosin, inventor of the Mosin–Nagant rifle, one of the most produced in history to this day

N

• Alexander Nadiradze, creator of the Soviet Unions first mobile ICBM (RT-21 Temp 2S) and the Soviet Union's first reliable mobile ICBM RT-2PM Topol
• Andrey Nartov, polymath inventor, designed quick-firing battery and cannon telescopic sight
• Sergey Nepobedimy, designed the first supersonic anti-tank guided missile Sturm and other Soviet rocket weaponry
• Gennadiy Nikonov, inventor of the AN-94 assault rifle with the "straight-back bolt" scheme

P

• Nikolay Popov, designed the first operational gas turbine tank T-80
• Aleksandr Porokhovschikov, inventor of Vezdekhod (Russias first prototype continuous track tank, or tankette, and the first Russian continuous track amphibious ATV)

S

• Andrei Sakharov, physicist, inventor of explosively pumped flux compression generator, co-developer of the Tsar Bomb, Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Pavel Schilling, inventor of Russias electric mine
• Vyacheslav Silin, designer of the Silin machine gun
• Georgi Shpagin, designer of the PPSh-41 submachine gun
• Boris Shavyrin, inventor of air-augmented rocket
• Pyotr Shuvalov, founder of Izhevsk, inventor of canister shot mortar, introduced the unicorne mortar
• Sergei Simonov, designer of the SKS carbine, and AO-31 and AG-043 assault rifles
• Vladimir Simonov, inventor of underwater assault rifle and AO-63 assault rifle
• Alexey Sudayev, designer of the PPS submachine gun

T

• Peter Tkachev, inventor of the Balanced Automatic Recoil System and designer of the TsNIITochMash AO-63 assault rifle
• Fedor Tokarev, designer of TT-33 handgun and SVT-40 self-loading rifle, Soviet weapons used in World War II, also the leader of the EAI

U

• Vladimir Utkin, designer of the railcar-launched ICBM (RT-23 Molodets)

V

• Ivan Vyrodkov, creator of Russia's battery-tower

See also

• List of Russian weaponry
• List of Russian inventors
• List of Russian inventions
• Defence industry of Russia

Notes and References

1. Book: Калашников, Михаил. Mikhail Kalashnikov. ru:Записки конструктора-оружейника. Воениздат. М.. 1992. Военные мемуары. Чемодан со стволами. http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/kalashnikov_mt/09.html. 136. 5-203-01290-3. ru.