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Fedor Tokarev



Fedor Vasilievich Tokarev (Russian: Фёдор Васильевич Токарев, sometimes translated as Fyodor Vasilyevich, or Fedor Vasilevich) (1871–1968) was a Russian weapons designer and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1941 to 1950. Outside the former Soviet Union he is best known as the designer of the Tokarev TT-33 semiautomatic handgun and the Tokarev SVT-40 self-loading rifle, both of which were produced in large numbers during World War II (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War).



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