Fedor Vasilievich Tokarev (russian: Фёдор Васи́льевич То́карев; 2 June 1871 4 June in old Russian calendarref name=r
Fedor Tokarev – Brief History
Tokarev.com. Retrieved on 2014-02-16. – 6 March 1968) was a

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weapons designer and deputy of the

Supreme Soviet of the USSR The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( rus, Верховный Совет Союза Советских Социалистических Республик, r=Verkhovnyy Sovet Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respubl ...

from 1937 to 1950.

Career

Outside the former Soviet Union he is best known as the designer of the Tokarev TT-30 and TT-33 self-loading pistol and the Tokarev SVT-38 and SVT-40

self-loading rifle A self-loading rifle or autoloading rifle is a rifle with an action using a portion of the energy of each cartridge fired to load another cartridge. Self-loading pistols are similar, but intended to be held and fired by a single hand, while rifles ...

, both of which were produced in large numbers during fighting on the Eastern Front of

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. For his contributions to Soviet arms design Tokarev received the

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award and the

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.The Official Fedor Tokarev Arms Designer Site
. Tokarev.com (2013-06-14). Retrieved on 2014-02-16. He also designed the prototype of the FT-1 / ФТ-1 panoramic camera (FT stands for: Fotoapparat Tokareva / Фотоаппарат Токарева).Архивы – ФТ
ZENITcamera. Retrieved on 2014-02-16.

Timeline

* 1888 – Admitted to the Military Vocational School at

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; age 17 * 1892 – Graduated as Cossack noncommissioned officer and sent to the 12th

Don Cossack Don Cossacks (russian: Донские казаки, Donskie kazaki) or Donians (russian: донцы, dontsy) are Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don. Historically, they lived within the former Don Cossack Host (russian: До� ...

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. * 1927 – Designed

Tokarev Model 1927 The Tokarev Model 1927 submachine gun was an experimental firearm developed in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Fedor Vasilievich Tokarev as part of the Soviet Union's drive to be self sufficient in armaments. It was a blowback-operated, ...

submachine gun prototype. * 1940–41 – Defended

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in technical sciences. Received the

award and the

. 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.

Career

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