Vasily Degtyaryov
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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.
Degtyaryov in 1941
DP-27
The engineer's room in the house-museum
PPD-40
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The PPD is a submachine gun originally designed in 1934 by Vasily Degtyaryov. The PPD had a conventional wooden stock, fired from an open bolt, and was capable of selective fire. It was replaced by th
Vasily Degtyaryov
…Degtyaryov designed several models of submachine guns, the best of which would be adopted by the Soviet Army in 1934 (modernized in 1940) as the ППД PPD-40 (from Пистолет-пулемёт Дегтярёва, "Degtyaryov's submachine gun"). In 1930, Degtyaryov designed a 12.7 mm large-caliber machine gun, the ДК, or DK…
PPD-34 & PPD-34/38
PPD 34
Soviet soldier holding a PPD-40 with two-part wooden stock.
Sailors of the Baltic Fleet armed with PPD-40 (left two), PPSh-41 (rightmost) and a child in May 1943.