Yevgeny Dragunov

Yevgeny Fyodorovich Dragunov (

Coming from a family of gunsmiths,[2] Dragunov worked as a factory machinist before beginning military service in 1939.

Career

After 1941, Dragunov was a senior armorer working for the Soviet Union and also captured enemy weapons during wartime. After 1945, he returned to Izhevsk and joined the Arms Design Bureau, working as a project engineer on sporting and civilian target rifles through the 1950s. One of these, the Biathlon target rifle, went on to the Olympic Gold. In 1959, Dragunov submitted his design for a military sniper rifle, the SVD, which was accepted into Soviet military service in 1963 and later became known as the Dragunov rifle.^[3]

Dragunov also participated in the competition that led to the adoption of

• Order of the Badge of Honour (1957)^[2]
• the Lenin Prize (1963)^[2]
• the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1992, posthumously)^[2][5]

Inventions

• TsV-50 (ЦВ-50) - target rifle^[2]
• MTsV-50 (МЦВ-50) - target rifle^[2]
• TsV-55 "Zenith" (ЦВ-55 "Зенит") - 7.62mm target rifle^[2]
• MTsV-55 "Strela" (МЦВ-55 "Стрела") -
  5.6mm target rifle^[2]
• VDNKh exhibition)^[6]
• SVD - 7.62mm semi-automatic sniper rifle^[2]
• PP-71 - 9mm submachine gun^[2][7]