Alexey Sudayev
Alexey Ivanovich Sudayev | |
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Born | Alexey Ivanovich Sudayev August 23, 1912 |
Died | August 17, 1946 | (aged 33)
Alma mater | Gorky Industrial Institute[1] |
Occupation | inventor, engineer |
Alexey Ivanovich Sudayev (Russian: Алексе́й Ива́нович Суда́ев; 23 August 1912 – 17 August 1946) was a Soviet firearm designer.[2][1]
Biography[]
He lived in Leningrad, and participated in the defense of the city.[1] The PPS was developed to be mass-produced for the defense of Leningrad.
Sudayev designed one of the first Soviet assault rifles for the new intermediate cartridge 7.62×39mm, the AS-44. The first prototype was tested in 1944, and found to function adequately by the Red army, though it was considered too heavy at 5.6 kg. Sudayev then worked on a second, lighter prototype that weighed only 5.35 kg. However, the second prototype had accuracy and reliability problems, which needed to be resolved.[3] However, Sudayev became seriously ill and died in 1946, a week before his 34th birthday and before his design could be finalized.[4]
Awards[]
- USSR State Prize (1946)[2][1]
- Order of Lenin[1]
- Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Inventions[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Судаев Алексей Иванович // Большая Российская Энциклопедия / редколл., гл. ред. Ю. С. Осипов. том 31. М., научное издательство "Большая Российская Энциклопедия", 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Судаев Ал. Ив. (1912 - 1946) // Советский энциклопедический словарь. редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. 4-е изд. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1986. стр.1286
- ^ Сергей Монетчиков, Русские оружейники: Жизнь, оборвавшаяся на взлете Archived 2018-02-12 at the Wayback Machine "Братишка", October 2002 issue
- ^ John Francis Nejez Bradley (1977). Sydney L. Mayer (ed.). The Russian war machine, 1917-1945. Chartwell Books. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-86124-379-2.
- 1912 births
- 1946 deaths
- People from Alatyr, Chuvash Republic
- People from Alatyrsky Uyezd
- Firearm designers
- Soviet inventors
- Soviet engineers
- Stalin Prize winners
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery