List of Russian weaponry makers

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

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

References