The Russian Post also issued an envelope depicting Degtyaryov
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Vasily Degtyaryov
Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov was a Soviet and Russian engineer who specialized in weapons design. He was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labour in 1940.
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science · Russian and Soviet weapons designer (1880–1949) · engineer · design engineer · politician · memoirist · inventor · also Vasily Degtyaryov, Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov, Degtyaryov
Born 21 December 1879 · Died 16 January 1949 · Q551661
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1979· 1 entry
On the occasion of the centennial of the designer's birth, the USSR Ministry of Communications issued a postal envelope with his image
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1954· 1 entry
A monument was erected in Kovrov for Degtyaryov, and a bust and several plaques were installed on the territory of the weapons factory bearing his name
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1949· 2 entries
Awarded Stalin Prize (1949).
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Died 1949-01-16.
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Stalin Prize (1946).
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1945· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Suvorov, 1st class (1945).
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“For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”
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1944· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1944).
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Awarded Order of Suvorov, 2nd class (1944).
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Became Major General of the Engineering and Artillery Service of the Soviet Union
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1942· 2 entries
Awarded Stalin Prize (1942).
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1942).
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded Stalin Prize (1941).
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1940· 4 entries
Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1940).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1940).
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Career landmark: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1940–1949).
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Became a Doctor of Technical Sciences, and Hero of Socialist Labour (he received the second such award in its history just two weeks after Joseph Stalin)
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1939· 1 entry
Degtyaryov designed his heavy machine gun called ДС, or DS (Дегтярёва Станковый "Heavy Degtyaryov")
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1938· 1 entry
This machine gun was upgraded by Georgy Shpagin and renamed ДШК (DShK) (Дегтярёва Шпагина Крупнокалиберный, "Large-caliber Shpagin-Degtyaryov")
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1934· 1 entry
(modernized in 1940) as the ППД PPD-40 (from Пистолет-пулемёт Дегтярёва, "Degtyaryov's submachine gun")
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1933· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1933).
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1932· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Star (1932).
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1918· 1 entry
Vasily Degtyaryov headed the first Soviet firearms design bureau at Kovrov Arms Factory
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1879· 1 entry
Born 1879-12-21.
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