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Staritsky District

Staritsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 36 in Tver Oblast, Russia....

, Tver Oblast

Tver Oblast

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) – October 28, 1940, Miskhor, Crimean ASSR

Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

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) was a prominent Soviet

Soviet Union

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 designer of anti-tank, air-defense, and other types of artillery, widely used during World War II

World War II

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Being a chief of the designer bureau of 8th Kalinin Artillery plant in Kaliningrad

Korolyov (city)

Korolyov or Korolev is an industrial city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, well known as the cradle of Soviet and Russian space exploration. It was originally founded as Kaliningrad in 1938 by Vasily Boldyrev, Naum Nosovsky, and Mikhail Loginov as the leading Soviet center for production of anti-tank...

 (Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast

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), he created, among others, 45-mm anti-tank gun M1937 (53-K), 76-mm air-defense gun M1938, 37-mm air-defense gun M1939 (61-K), 85-mm air-defense gun M1939 (52-K), 25 mm automatic air defense gun M1940 (72-K)

25 mm automatic air defense gun M1940 (72-K)

25 mm automatic air defense gun M1940 was a Soviet 25 mm caliber anti-aircraft gun. The gun was created in the beginning of 1940 at 8th Kalinin Artillery Plant in Kaliningrad under the guidance of its Chief Designer Mikhail Loginov....

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For his achievements he was rewarded with Order of the Red Star

Order of the Red Star

Established on 6 April 1930, the Order of the Red Star was an order of the Soviet Union, given to Red Army and Soviet Navy personnel for "exceptional service in the cause of the defense of the Soviet Union in both war and peace". It was established by Resolution of the Presidium of the CEC of the...

 (1937), Order of Lenin

Order of Lenin

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 (1939), and Stalin Prize

USSR State Prize

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(1941, after his death).