Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov was a Soviet weapons designer; he is one of the fathers of the modern assault rifle. Mostly known for the Samozaryadnyi Karabin sistemi Simonova (Russian: Самозарядный карабин системы Симонова), 1945 (Self-loading Carbine, Simonov's system, 1945), or SKS carbine, he also pioneered the assault and semi-automatic rifle field in the 1920s and 1930s, … Wikipedia
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