Fedor Tokarev
Fedor Vasilyevich Tokarev Фёдор Васи́льевич То́карев | |
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Fedor Vasilievich Tokarev (
Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1937 to 1950.[2]
Career
Outside the former Soviet Union he is best known as the designer of the
Hero of Socialist Labor award and the USSR State Prize.[3]
He also designed the prototype of the FT-1 / ФТ-1 panoramic camera (FT stands for: Fotoapparat Tokareva / Фотоаппарат Токарева).[4]
Timeline
- 1888 – Admitted to the Military Vocational School at Novocherkassk; age 17
- 1892 – Graduated as Cossack noncommissioned officer and sent to the 12th Don Cossack Regiment as an armorer-artificer; age 21.
- 1896 – Returned to Novecherkassk as Master Armorer Instructor; age 25. Applied for admittance to the Military Technical School.
- 1900 – Graduated as a Cossack commissioned officer, age 29, and returned to his old unit, the 12th Don Cossack Regiment as Master Gunsmith.
- 1910 – Submitted his version of a conversion of the bolt-action Model 1891 Mosin–Nagant rifle to semi-automatic fire, which merited official testing, age 39.[3]
- 1927 – Designed Tokarev Model 1927 submachine gun prototype.[3]
- 1940–41 – Defended
Tokarev's son Nikolai (1899–1972) also became a prominent firearms designer. He worked for several decades in Tula and designed several machine guns and anti-aircraft guns that were used by the Soviet Army in the 1930s–1940s.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b Fedor Tokarev – Brief History Archived 2017-07-15 at the Wayback Machine. Tokarev.com. Retrieved on 2014-02-16.
- ^ a b c Токарев Фёдор Васильевич. warheroes.ru
- ^ a b c The Official Fedor Tokarev Arms Designer Site Archived 2007-01-14 at the Wayback Machine. Tokarev.com (2013-06-14). Retrieved on 2014-02-16.
- ^ Архивы – ФТ. ZENITcamera. Retrieved on 2014-02-16.
Further reading
- Chumak, Ruslan (2011). Фёдор Васильевич Токарев и его оружие "Я буду работать, пока дышу…" (PDF). p. 32-28.
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