Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov (January 2, 1880, Tula - January 16, 1949, Moscow) was a Russian weapons designer, Major General of the Engineering and Artillery Service, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1940), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1940, he received the second such award in the history just two weeks later than Joseph Stalin himself). He became a CPSU member in 1941. Vasily Degtyaryov was the one to head the first Soviet firearms design bureau. Wikipedia
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