Sergei Ivanovich Mossin

Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Сергей Иванович Мосин
Transl. :	Sergej Ivanovič Mosin
Transcr. :	Sergei Ivanovich Mossin

Sergei Ivanovich Mossin ( Russian Серге́й Ива́нович Мо́син ; * April 2 ^July / April 14, 1849 ^greg. In Ramon ; † January 26th ^July / February 8, 1902 ^greg. In Tula ) was a Russian weapons designer and officer in the Russian army .

Life

Mossin entered the Voronezh Mikhailov Cadet Institute at the age of twelve . In 1867 he began training at the Alexander Military Academy in Moscow , which he left again in 1870 to switch to the Mikhailov Military Academy in St. Petersburg . Here he specialized in artillery and completed his training in 1875.

He then moved to the arsenal in Tula (today Tulaer Waffenwerk ), where his career as a weapons designer began. He first improved the Berdan 2 , the standard rifle of the Russian infantry at the time, and from 1882 developed a rifle in the new 7.62 × 54 mm R caliber , which in 1891 was called the "three-line rifle" after minor improvements by Léon Nagant , who revised the magazine's cartridge feed mechanism. M1891 was adopted into the armament of the tsarist army . The rifle was continuously improved and was the standard rifle of the Red Army as the M1891 / 30 until the end of World War II . The sniper version of the Mosin-Nagant was used in various armies until the 1970s and is still used today by target shooters and hunters.

Web links

Commons : Sergei Ivanovich Mossin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Colonel Sergei Ivanovich Mosin. In: Russian Mosin Nagant & Historic Military Firearms Page History Section. Archived from the original on March 27, 2008 ; accessed on March 22, 2014 (English). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The previously common transcription is Mosin.