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Alexey Sudayev
Soviet firearm designer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alexey Ivanovich Sudayev (Russian: Алексе́й Ива́нович Суда́ев; 23 August 1912 – 17 August 1946) was a Soviet firearm designer.[1][2][3]
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He was born on 23 August 1912 in the city of Alatyr.[1]
His father Ivan Nilovich Sudayev, a telegraph mechanic for the postal and telegraphic district in Kazan, died in 1924, leaving his mother dependent on 12-year-old Alexei and his two sisters.
In 1929 Sudayev graduated from a vocational school and began working as a locksmith. After graduating in 1932 from the Gorky Construction Technical School (Department of Industrial Transport), he worked in "Soyuztransstroi" as a site technician in the village of Rudnichnoye of Satka District in the Ural Region (now the Chelyabinsk Region). During this period (1933-1934) appeared his first inventions "Automatic firing from a machine gun through the action of infrared rays" and "Gasometer".
In the autumn of 1934, Sudayev served in the Red Army,[1] in the railway troops, where he showed great interest in weapons. Following his discharge, he entered the Gorky Industrial Institute where he studied from 1936-1938. During his studies he showed considerable creative abilities. He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1940.[1]
At this time, the Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy created a school of gunsmiths, which recruited students from various universities who had a tendency to invent and design. In 1941, Lieutenant Sudayev defended his diploma project[1] (7.62 mm machine gun) with honors in German language, majoring as an engineer. He was then recalled into the Red Army following Operation Barbarossa.
He died in 1946 of a gastric ulcer and was buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow.
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