Nikolay Mikhaylovich Afanasyev

Nikolay Mikhailovich Afanasyev
Born	Nikolay Mikhailovich Afanasyev November 14, 1916(1916-11-14) St. Petersburg, Russia.
Died	March 15, 2009(2009-03-15) (aged 92)
Occupation	Weapons designer

Nikolay Mikhailovich Afanasyev Russian: Николай Михайлович Афанасьев (November 14, 1916 – March 15, 2009) was a Soviet firearms designer.

Afanasiev was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1938 he graduated from a Tekhnikum of the Mechanization of Agriculture. In 1939 was drafted to serve tank corps in Mongolia, where he became the arms designer.

Honours and awards

This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia.

Hero of Socialist Labour - For achievements in the design of aircraft gun armament
Two Orders of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
USSR State Prize
Mosin Prize
Honoured Inventor of the RSFSR

External links

Afanasyev bio (Russian)

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Sportspeople	Chess players

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Name	Afanasyev, Nikolay Mikhaylovich
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Date of birth	November 14, 1916
Place of birth	St. Petersburg, Russia.
Date of death	March 15, 2009
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