Fedor (Fyodor) Vasilievich Tokarev (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 remembered for the creation of the Tokarev TT-33 semiautomatic handgun and the Tokarev SVT-40 self-loading rifle which were two common (although relatively scarce compared to the Mosin Nagant and the PPSh-41) firearms of the Soviet Union during World war 2 (known in Russia as the Great patriotic war). Due to his contributions in Soviet arms design he received a Hero of socialist labor award in 1940. Fedor Tokarev developed the TT-30 Pistol for the Soviet Military to replace the old Nagant M1895 revolvers the Soviets were using held over from the time of the tsar. ... The Samozaryadnaya Vintovka Tokareva 40 is a Soviet semi-automatic rifle, which saw widespread service in World War II. It was the first self-loading battle rifle which was issued to service in large numbers. ... The Mosin-Nagant (Russian: Мосин-Наган) is a bolt action, five round, military rifle that was used by the armed forces of Imperial Russia and later the Soviet Union and various Eastern bloc nations. ... Designed by Georgii Shpagin, the PPSh-41 (Pistolet-Pulemet Shpagina, Russian: Пистолет-пулемёт Шпагина, nicknamed Peh-peh-shah, Shpagin and Burp Gun) was one of the most mass produced weapons of World War II. Finding that PPD was too expensive and time consuming to build, the PPSh was designed as an inexpensive alternate. ... The Eastern Front1 was the theatre of combat between Nazi Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union during World War II. It was somewhat separate from the other theatres of the war, not only geographically, but also for its scale and ferocity. ...

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