Russian gunsmiths. Creators of Victory weapons. Monetchiks S.

The book “Russian gunsmiths” is devoted to the life and activities of the domestic creators of the shooting, aviation, artillery, rocket, tank weapons, as well as a number of aircraft designers. creative personalities, reveals their interests and ideas, ways to achieve their goals, successes and failures, sometimes describes complex conflict situations. These experts, in the context of an impending war, as well as during the years of defense of the Soviet Fatherland, sought to ensure the technical superiority of the armed struggle over the enemy. Thanks to their work, the weapon of Victory was created.

The author of the book is Sergey Borisovich Monetchikov (1961-2017) prematurely passed away, in this regard, not all the names of the designers, the materials about which he planned to give in his monograph included In this publication.

is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

compiler: Chernikov V. m.