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The TT-30, [a] commonly known simply as the Tokarev, is a Soviet semi-automatic pistol. It was developed during the late 1920s by Fedor Tokarev as a service pistol for the Soviet Armed Forces and was based on the earlier pistol designs of John Moses Browning , albeit with detail modifications to simplify production and maintenance. [ 2 ]
Fedor Vasilievich Tokarev (Russian: Фёдор Васи́льевич То́карев; 14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1871 [1] – 6 March 1968) was a Russian weapons designer and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1937 to 1950.
Tokarev pistol: 7.62×25mm Tokarev: 1930–present in use in some reserve forces and carried by military officers TT-30. TT-33 1933 K54 (Vietnamese clone) M48 (Hungarian modification) PW wz. 33 (Polish clone) Type 54 (Chinese clone) Type 68 (North Korean clone) TTC (Romanian clone) Zastava M57 (Yugoslav clone) Soviet Union: Makarov pistol: 9× ...
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
TT-30 may refer to: TT pistol, a Soviet semi-automatic pistol; NEMA TT-30, a type of mains electricity connector This page was last edited on 30 ...
Fedor Tokarev (1871–1968) Russian Empire Soviet Union: TT-33 semiautomatic handgun and SVT-40 self-loading rifle (main Soviet guns of World War II) A Soviet soldier with TT-33: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, (1857–1935) Russian Empire Soviet Union: spaceflight (theory principles that led to numerous inventions, derived the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation)
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Fedor Tokarev - Cossack officer and director of small arms factory at Izhevsk before the Revolution. Designed the SVT-38 and TT-33 during the Communist era. [31] Fedor's son Nikolai Tokarev also designed arms for the Red Army.