Fedorov Vladimir Grigorievich - a famous Soviet engineer in the field of weapons. Thanks to the technical skills of Vladimir Grigorievich, the best weapon of those years, the machine gun, was improved for the Russian Empire. However, despite the unconditional talent of the gunsmith, the release of his military weapons was constantly stopped due to any circumstances. That is why the name of Vladimir Fedorov, who participated in the creation of small arms of the Second World War, is still not so famous for many Russians. However, this article will tell a lot about the gunsmith's biography.
Biography of Fedorov Vladimir Grigorievich
The great engineer and designer was born on May 15, 1874 in the cultural capital of Russia - St. Petersburg.
Vladimir Grigoryevich Fedor's father worked as caretaker of the Imperial jurisprudence building.
The biography of Vladimir Fedor is extremely diverse in its events, which suggests thatthe engineer was indeed an outstanding mechanic.
Education of Vladimir Fedorov
First, Vladimir Grigorievich Fedorov studied at the St. Petersburg State Gymnasium, where he received his secondary education, and after graduation he entered the Mikhailovsky Artillery School, after which he already had a special education. It was after graduating from college that Vladimir entered the army of the Russian Empire in 1895, where he served for two years as a platoon commander.
But Vladimir Grigorievich Fedorov decided not to stop at his education. In 1897 he entered the Academy of Artillery in the same Mikhailovsk. Vladimir Fedorov passed his production practice at the arms factory, which was located in Sestroretsk. It was there that he met the head of the plant, Sergei Mosin, who was already a well-known weapons designer at that time. Mosin's most famous work was a three-line rifle, which was adopted by the Russian army in 1851.
First steps in Fedorov's service
Having graduated from the academy already in 1900, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fedorov was hired as a speaker in the weapons department of the Main Artillery Directorate. It was there that Vladimir Fedorov got access to many materials stored in the archives and of an official nature. These documents contained a lot of information about the armament of the Russian army and the armies of other countries.
First engineeringexperience
Already in 1906, Fedorov completed the first project to create an automatic rifle, which was based on the drawings of the Mosin rifle. Fedorov came to this decision because at that time there were about five million "mosquitoes" in service, and their conversion to automatic weapons was much cheaper than creating a new one.
In 1906 Vladimir Grigoryevich's project was officially approved. It was from that moment that Fedorov's career in engineering began.
Major weapon changes
In 1911, Fedorov began another project that called for cartridges with a smaller caliber, which changed the entire design of the rifle. With the outbreak of the First World War, about two hundred Fedorov rifles of a new design were produced, but soon the assembly of this weapon model was stopped.
Already in 1916, at the suggestion of Fedorov, automatic rifles were officially adopted, which could conduct continuous firing. It was this weapon that became known as the Fedorov assault rifle.
In September of the same year, an order was made to the Sestroretsk arms factory to assemble twenty-five thousand Fedorov assault rifles. Despite such an excellent development of events, due to poverty and lack of material during the war years, the order was first reduced to ten thousand copies, and then completely canceled.
Fedorov's later life
In early 1918, Vladimir Grigorievich Fedorov was offered a position as chief engineer at a machine gun factory in Kovrov. Thanks to the technique of manufacturing and assembling Fedorov's parts,already in 1920, 100 automatic machines were ready. And in 1921, thanks to the skills of Vladimir Grigorievich, the production of machine guns gained significant momentum - 50 pieces per month. It was at this time that Fedorov was working on the creation and development of new small arms, which were subsequently used during the Second World War. Small arms, on which Fedorov was already working, helped a lot in the victory of the Soviet troops over the fascist invaders.
In the 1920s, Fedorov, together with Shpagin and Simonov, created several variations of machine guns for tanks.
Already at the end of the Civil War, Fedorov still managed to make a huge variety of different changes to the design of his machine gun. In 1924, his more advanced weapons passed all the tests and began to be produced by weapons factories. However, despite all the innovations, the machine with an even smaller caliber was no longer produced. But by this time, more than two and a half thousand units had already been created.
Writing activity
After the end of World War II, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fedorov wrote a scientific book that told about the appearance of artillery weapons in Russia. It is in his writings that he writes that this type of weapon appeared and was first used in the late 1300s.
In addition to his enormous work on the creation of weapons, Vladimir Grigorievich writes several books about "The Tale of Igor's Campaign …", in which he considers all events exclusively from the point of view of a soldier, evaluating them from a military point of viewview.
Death of a great gunsmith
In 1953, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fedorov retired.
In 1966, the great engineer and gunsmith Fedorov dies in the capital of the Soviet state. Vladimir Grigorievich was buried in the same place, in Moscow, at the Golovinsky cemetery.
