Nikolai Afanasyev
Russian weapons designer
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Nikolay Mikhailovich Afanasyev (Russian: Николай Михайлович Афанасьев; 14 November 1916 – 15 March 2009), also known as Nicolai Michaelovich Afanasiev, was a Russian firearms designer.[1]
14 November 1916
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| Born | Nikolay Mikhailovich Afanasyev 14 November 1916 |
| Died | 15 March 2009 (aged 92) |
| Occupation | Weapons designer |
Biography
Nicolai Michaelovitch Afanasiev was born in Russia on 14 November 1916 in St. Petersburg. In 1938 he graduated from a Tekhnikum of the Mechanization of Agriculture.
In 1939 he was drafted to serve in a tank corps in Mongolia, where he started to work on machine gun design. After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, he volunteered for front-line service. He was allowed to be a fighter from September 1941 until the fall of 1942, when he was recalled to work on armaments, initially on improving fuses for 82- and 120-mm mortars.
After 1948 Afanasiev worked at the KBP Instrument Design Bureau.[1]
He died on 15 March 2009.
Designs
- LAD machine gun – 1942[2]
- Afanasev A-12.7 – 1950[1]
- Afanasev Makarov AM-23 – 1953[1]
- a bullpup design with which he participated in the AKM contest - 1955[3]
- 2A-14 23 mm autocannon, used in the ZU-23 – 1960 (with P.G. Yakushev)[1]
- 2A-7 23 mm autocannon, used in the ZSU-23-4 – 1960 (with P.G. Yakushev)[1]
- TKB-011
- TKB-0136, competed in Project Abakan[1]
- OTs-02 Kiparis[1]
Honours and awards
- Hero of Socialist Labour (1986)[1] – For achievements in the design of aircraft gun armament
- Two Orders of Lenin (1963, 1986)[1]
- Order of the October Revolution (1977)[1]
- Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class (1963)[1]
- USSR State Prize (1967)[1]
- Mosin Prize[1]
- Honoured Inventor of the RSFSR (1968)[1]