Background
Nicolai Michaelovitch Afanasiev was born in Russia on 14 November 1916 in Saint St. Petersburg.
Nicolai Michaelovitch Afanasiev was born in Russia on 14 November 1916 in Saint St. Petersburg.
In 1938 he graduated from a Tekhnikum of the Mechanization of Agriculture.
In 1939 he was drafted to serve in a tank corps in Mongolia, where he started to work on machine gun design. After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, he volunteered for front-line service. He was allowed to be a fighter from September 1941 until the fall of 1942, when he was recalled to work on armaments, initially on improving fuses for 82- and 120-mm mortars.
After 1948 Afanasiev worked at the KBP Instrument Design Bureau.
He died on 15 March 2009. LAD machine gun - 1942 Afanasev A-12.7 - 1950 Afanasev Makarov Department of Administration and Management-23 - 1953 a bullpup design with which he participated in the AKM contest - 1955 2A-14 23 mm autocannon, used in the ZU-23 - 1960 (with Procter and Gamble Yakushev) 2A-7 23 mm autocannon, used in the ZSU-23-4 - 1960 (with Procter and Gamble Yakushev) TKB-011 TKB-0136, competed in Project Abakan OTs-02 Kiparis.