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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Name	Afanasyev, Nikolay Mikhaylovich
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Date of birth	November 14, 1916
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Date of death	March 15, 2009
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