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Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov

1874 - 1966

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Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (Russian: Владимир Григорьевич Фёдоров; 15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1874 – 19 September 1966) was a Russian and Soviet scientist, weapons designer, professor, lieutenant general of the Soviet technical-engineering service and a founder of the Soviet school of automatic small arms. In 1900, Vladimir Fyodorov graduated from Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy and was transferred to the artillery committee of the Chief Artillery Directorate (Главное артиллерийское управление). He designed several automatic rifles: one chambered in 7.62 mm (1912), another in 6.5 mm for a cartridge of his own design (1913), and one of the first prototype assault rifles in the world: the Avtomat Fyodorova (1916), which was originally designed to fire a shortened Arisaka 6.5mm rifle cartridge, but saw service firing the full-sized 6.5 mm Arisaka rifle cartridge due to reliability issues in testing and foresight of logistical problems. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov is the 235th most popular engineer (up from 240th in 2019), the 1,411th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,417th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov ranks 235 out of 389. Before him are Johannes Winkler, Georgy Beriev, Benoît Fourneyron, Enrico Forlanini, Béla Barényi, and Jon Postel. After him are Eilmer of Malmesbury, Alfred Neubauer, René Panhard, Hidetsugu Yagi, Arthur Rudolph, and Yahya Ayyash.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov ranks 150. Before him are Julio Romero de Torres, Jerzy Żuławski, Madeleine Pelletier, Leonard Eugene Dickson, Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, and Lucien Démanet. After him are J. C. Leyendecker, Oskari Mantere, James H. Johnson, Manuel Díaz, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, and Charles W. Gilmore. Among people deceased in 1966, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov ranks 137. Before him are Seán T. O'Kelly, Jan Kiepura, Hedda Hopper, Stylianos Gonatas, Alfred P. Sloan, and Christian Herter. After him are Gʻafur Gʻulom, Zoltán Ozoray Schenker, Eva Justin, Robert Charpentier, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, and Gustavo Marzi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov ranks 1,411 out of 3,761. Before him are Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935), Eugen Slutsky (1880), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), Igor Sechin (1960), Vera Gaze (1899), and Julia Volkova (1985). After him are Viktor Yerofeyev (1947), Boris Grebenshchikov (1953), Nikolai Valuev (1973), Hermann Goetz (1840), Pyotr Anjou (1796), and Aleksandr Abdulov (1953).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov ranks 29. Before him are Alexey Sudayev (1912), Alexander Lodygin (1847), Vasily Mishin (1917), Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921), Vladimir Petlyakov (1891), and Semyon Lavochkin (1900). After him are Sergey Chaplygin (1869), Mikhail Simonov (1929), Nikolay Kamov (1902), Alexander Mikulin (1895), Nikolay Makarov (1914), and Mikhail Tikhonravov (1900).

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