Mosin–Nagant
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The Mosin–Nagant is a five-shot, bolt-action, internal magazine–fed military rifle. Known officially as the 3-line rifle M1891, in Russia and the former Soviet Union as Mosin's rifle and informally ju
Schematic of Model 1891 (top left)
Russian Imperial infantry of World War I armed with Mosin–Nagant rifles
Arkhangelsk, Russia, November 20, 1918. The US 339th Infantry Regiment, equipped with Mosin-Nagant rifles, is inspected by British General Edmund Ironside, commander of the North Russia intervention Force.
A book published by the Japanese Army Magazine in 1938, quoted a Soviet Red Army military adviser's conversation, talking about the Mosin-Nagant sniper rifles (with a PE or PEM scope), which were used by the Chinese military in the Battle of Shanghai (1937), caused great losses to the Japanese army.
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin
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Sergei Ivanovich Mosin was a Russian Major General, engineer, and the main contributor to the design of the 3-line rifle, Model 1891, colloquially known as the Mosin–Nagant.
Mosin–Nagant
…engineers (the smokeless powder, for instance, was produced by Dmitri Mendeleev himself). In 1889, three rifles were submitted for evaluation: Captain Sergei Ivanovich Mosin of the imperial army submitted his "3-line" caliber (.30 cal, 7.62 mm) rifle; Belgian designer Léon Nagant submitted a "3.5-line" (.35 caliber, 9 mm…
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Monument to Mosin in Sestroretsk, Russia.
Sergei Mosin in 1891 (left) and in 1901 (right)