Sergei Ivanovich Mossin
Cyrillic ( Russian ) | |
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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
- 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
- ↑ The previously common transcription is Mosin.
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SURNAME | Mossin, Sergei Ivanovich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Мосин, Сергей Иванович (Russian); Moissin, Sergei Ivanovich; Mosin, Sergei Ivanovich (English) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian weapons designer and officer in the Russian army |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1849 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ramon |
DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1902 |
Place of death | Tula |