Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian and Soviet weapons designer
Date of Birth: 03-May-1874
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
Date of Death: 19-Sep-1966
Profession: engineer, combat engineer
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov
- Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (Russian: ???????? ??????????? ???????) (3 (15) May, 1874, Saint Petersburg – 19 September 1966, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet scientist, weapons designer, professor (1940), lieutenant general of a corps of military engineers (1943), founder of the Soviet school of automatic small arms, and a Hero of Labour (1928). In 1900 Vladimir Fyodorov graduated from Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy and was transferred to the artillery committee of the Chief Artillery Directorate (??????? ?????????????? ??????????).
- He designed a number of automatic rifles: one chambered in 7.62 mm (1912), another in 6.5 mm for a cartridge of his own design (1913), and one of the first prototype assault rifles in the world: the Avtomat Fyodorova (1916), which was originally designed to fire a shortened Arisaka 6.5mm rifle cartridge, but saw service firing the full-sized 6.5 mm Arisaka rifle cartridge due to reliability issues in testing and foresight of logistical problems.
- Automatic weapons designed by Fyodorov were used during World War I and the Russian Civil War. After the October Revolution, Fyodorov was appointed head and technical director (1918–1931) of the first Soviet weapons plant, which produced submachine guns of his design.
- In 1921, he organized and headed a design bureau at the automatic small arms factory.
- In 1922, Fyodorov designed the Fyodorov-Shpagin machine gun.
- In 1931–1933, Fyodorov worked as a standardization consultant at a weapons and machinegun trust.
- He then published a number of works on automatic weapons and was appointed a small arms consultant at Narkomat and with the Ministry of Arms (1942–1946).
- Between 1946 and 1953, Fyodorov was a member of the Academy of Artillery Sciences.
- He was a tutor of Vasily Degtyaryov, Georgi Shpagin, Sergei Simonov and others.
- Vladimir Fyodorov authored a number of scientific works on the history, design, production, and combat use of small firearms.
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