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Nikolay Mikhailovich Afanasyev (Russian: Николай Михайлович Афанасьев; 14 November 1916 – 15 March 2009), also known as Nicolai Michaelovich Afanasiev, was a Russian firearms designer.




Biography


Nicolai Michaelovitch Afanasiev was born in Russia on 14 November 1916 in St. Petersburg. In 1938 he graduated from a Tekhnikum of the Mechanization of Agriculture.
In 1939 he was drafted to serve in a tank corps in Mongolia, where he started to work on machine gun design. After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, he volunteered for front-line service. He was allowed to be a fighter from September 1941 until the fall of 1942, when he was recalled to work on armaments, initially on improving fuses for 82- and 120-mm mortars.
After 1948 Afanasiev worked at the KBP Instrument Design Bureau.
He died on 15 March 2009.




Designs


LAD machine gun – 1942
Afanasev A-12.7 – 1950
Afanasev Makarov AM-23 – 1953
a bullpup design with which he participated in the AKM contest - 1955
2A-14 23 mm autocannon, used in the ZU-23 – 1960 (with P.G. Yakushev)
2A-7 23 mm autocannon, used in the ZSU-23-4 – 1960 (with P.G. Yakushev)
TKB-011
TKB-0136, competed in Project Abakan
OTs-02 Kiparis




Honours and awards


Hero of Socialist Labour (1986) – For achievements in the design of aircraft gun armament
Two Orders of Lenin (1963, 1986)
Order of the October Revolution (1977)
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class (1963)
USSR State Prize (1967)
Mosin Prize
Honoured Inventor of the RSFSR (1968)




References






External links


http://www.bratishka.ru/archiv/2007/8/2007_8_17.php Archived 2011-03-08 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
Photo of Afanasyev's small arms designs at Tula museum Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
Николай Михайлович Афанасьев page at KBP

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