Yevgeny Fyodorovich Dragunov
Yevgeny Fjodorowitsch Dragunow ( Russian Евгений Фёдорович Драгунов ; born February 20, 1920 in Izhevsk ; † August 4, 1991 ) was a Soviet weapons designer.
The enthusiastic marksman Dragunow designed a. a. the Dragunov sniper rifle (SWD) in caliber 7.62 × 54 mm R , which borrowed from the AK-47 assault rifle and the Soviet self-loading rifles of the Second World War, such as the Simonov AWS-36 and the Tokarev SWT-40 .
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literature
- Jan Boger: Hunters and Hunted , Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-87943-373-9
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SURNAME | Dragunov, Yevgeny Fyodorovich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Драгунов, Евгений Фёдорович (Russian); Dragunov, Evgeniy Fedorovich (English) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian weapons designer, military, marksman |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1920 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Izhevsk , Russia |
DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1991 |