the "straight-back bolt" scheme P Gryazev Vasily Petrovich, one of the designers of GSh-18 Nikolay Popov, designed the first operational gas turbine tank T-80 Aleksandr Porokhovschikov, inventor of Vezdekhod (Russias first prototype continuous track tank, or tankette, and the first Russian continuous track amphibious ATV) S Andrei Sakharov, physicist, inventor of explosively pumped flux compression generator, co-developer of the Tsar Bomb, Nobel Peace Prize winner Pavel Schilling, inventor of Russias electric mine Piotr Serdyukov, designer of the SR-1 Vektor Vyacheslav Silin, designer of the Silin machine gun Georgi Shpagin, designer of the PPSh-41 submachine gun Boris Shavyrin, inventor of air-augmented rocket Pyotr Shuvalov, founder of Izhevsk, inventor of canister shot mortar, introduced the unicorne mortar Sergei Simonov, designer of the SKS carbine, and AO-31 and AG-043 assault rifles Vladimir Simonov, inventor of underwater assault rifle and AO-63 assault rifle Alexey Sudayev, designer of the PPS submachine gun T Peter Tkachev, inventor of the Balanced Automatic Recoil System and designer of the TsNIITochMash AO-63 assault rifle Fedor Tokarev, designer of TT-33 handgun and SVT-40 self-loading rifle, Soviet weapons used in World War II U Vladimir Utkin, designer of the railcar-launched ICBM (RT-23 Molodets) V Ivan Vyrodkov, creator of Russia's battery-tower Y Vladimir Yarygin, designer of the MP-443 Grach See also List of Russian weaponry List of Russian inventors List of Russian inventions Defence industry of Russia References Firearm designers Russian engineers Weapons of Russia Military industry Weaponry makers Russian and Soviet military-related lists