Makarov Pistol Designer Biography

Tula Armory Nikolai Fedorovich Makarov was born on May 9 in the village of Sasovo Ryazan province in the family of a railway master. In the year, he entered the Tula Mechanical Institute. When the Great Patriotic War began, he was withdrawn from pre -dyssalized practice, an engineer was qualified ahead of schedule and sent to Zagorsky Engineering Plant. The plant was soon evacuated to the city of Vyatka Polyany, the Kirov region.

There Nikolai Fedorovich went from the master to the leading designer. In the year, N. Makarov returned to Tula, graduated from the institute, receiving a diploma with honors. During the year, he developed his diploma project - an automatic machine for a new arrogance cartridge. Makarov took part in the competition to create a new pistol instead of the TT Tula, Tokarev, a gun of arr.

Along with him, their samples were presented: F. Tokarev, S. Simonov, S. Korovin and others. In the year, a model of a pistol developed by N. Makarov was adopted under the name “9-mm PM Pim Pistol”. For its creation, the designer was awarded the Stalin Prize of the III degree. Another significant design work of N. Makarov was developed together with the Tula designer N.

Afanasyev Aviation gun AM, adopted by the year and became one of the most massive in the post -war period. Nikolai Fedorovich was one of the managers of projects for the development of anti -tank guided missile systems "Fagot" and "Competition". Almost 30 years, from year to retirement in the year, Nikolai Fedorovich worked at the Tula design bureau of instrumentation earlier than the Central Design Bureau in the army, the internal affairs bodies and today the pistol named his surname - the Makarov pistol.

For outstanding successes in design activities, N. Makarov was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor in the year. He was awarded two orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and medals. N. Makarov died on May 13. The weapon Museum contains a pistol donated by N. Makarov himself, and the Aviation gun of AM on the eve of the flight from the birthday of Nikolai Fedorovich Makarov, a delegation from the city of Sasovo, Ryazan region, the homeland of an outstanding designer, visited the weapon museum.

They talked about the laying of a stone where a bust of the famous fellow countryman will be installed, about renaming in honor of N. Makarov Street, on which his house is located today. The film will be prepared for the anniversary. Shots of visiting the exposition by the delegation of the exposition at the Tula Museum of Weapons and a touching meeting in the library and information center of the museum with Nikolai Nikolaevich Makarov’s son of the designer and Nadezhda Nikolaevna Makarova’s granddaughter of the designer have already been shot.

Remembering Nikolai Fedorovich Makarov: on the annual of the world famous designer from a documentary, created in honor of the anniversary in the design bureau of instrumentation: - Savostin B.