Nikolai Afanasyev

Nikolay Mikhailovich Afanasyev
Nikolay Mikhailovich Afanasyev
Born	Nikolay Mikhailovich Afanasyev; November 14, 1916; St. Petersburg, Russia.
Died	March 15, 2009 (aged 92)
Occupation	Weapons designer

Nikolay Mikhailovich Afanasyev (Russian: Николай Михайлович Афанасьев; November 14, 1916 – March 15, 2009) also known as Nicolai Michaelovich Afanasiev, was a Russian firearms designer.[1]

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.[1]

He died on 15 March 2009.

Designs

LAD machine gun – 1942[2]
Afanasev A-12.7 – 1950[1]
Afanasev Makarov AM-23 – 1953[1]
a bullpup design with which he participated in the AKM contest - 1955[3]
2A-14 23 mm autocannon, used in the ZU-23 – 1960 (with P.G. Yakushev)[1]
2A-7 23 mm autocannon, used in the ZSU-23-4 – 1960 (with P.G. Yakushev)[1]
TKB-011
TKB-0136, competed in Project Abakan[1]
OTs-02 Kiparis[1]

Honours and awards

Hero of Socialist Labour (1986)[1] – For achievements in the design of aircraft gun armament
Two Orders of Lenin (1963, 1986)[1]
Order of the October Revolution (1977)[1]
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class (1963)[1]
USSR State Prize (1967)[1]
Mosin Prize[1]
Honoured Inventor of the RSFSR (1968)[1]

References

"Памяти Николая Михайловича Афанасьева", КАЛАШНИКОВ. ОРУЖИЕ, БОЕПРИПАСЫ, СНАРЯЖЕНИЕ 2009/4, p. 24
Руслан Учмак, "Не вписавшийся в классификации. Лёгкий пулемёт под пистолетный патрон конструкции Лютого, Афанасьева и Дейкина", Kalashnikov 2012/5, pp. 82-87; addendum photo with the belt and its box: Коробка и лента к пулемету ЛАД под 7,62-мм пистолетный патрон Archived 2014-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
Monetchikov, Sergei (2005). История русского автомата [The History of Russian Assault Rifle] (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps. pp. 87–93. ISBN 5-98655-006-4.

External links

http://www.bratishka.ru/archiv/2007/8/2007_8_17.php (in Russian)
Photo of Afanasyev's small arms designs at Tula museum
Николай Михайлович Афанасьев page at KBP

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[k-1] "Памяти Николая Михайловича Афанасьева", КАЛАШНИКОВ. ОРУЖИЕ, БОЕПРИПАСЫ, СНАРЯЖЕНИЕ 2009/4, p. 24

[2] Руслан Учмак, "Не вписавшийся в классификации. Лёгкий пулемёт под пистолетный патрон конструкции Лютого, Афанасьева и Дейкина", Kalashnikov 2012/5, pp. 82-87; addendum photo with the belt and its box: Коробка и лента к пулемету ЛАД под 7,62-мм пистолетный патрон Archived 2014-02-09 at the Wayback Machine

[3] Monetchikov, Sergei (2005). История русского автомата [The History of Russian Assault Rifle] (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps. pp. 87–93. ISBN 5-98655-006-4.