List of Russian weaponry makers

Andrey Chokhov, maker of the Tsar Cannon, the world's largest bombard by caliber

Vasily Degtyaryov, designer of Degtyaryov-series firearms, co-developer of Fedorov Avtomat, inventor of self-loading carbine
Yevgeny Dragunov, designer of the Dragunov sniper rifle

Ivan Fyodorov, 16th century inventor of multibarreled mortar, introduced printing to Russia
Vladimir Fyodorov, one of the chief pioneers of the battle rifle (Fedorov Avtomat) and general-purpose machine gun.^[1]

Leonid Gobyato, inventor of modern mortar
Vasiliy Grabin, designer of the ZiS-2 anti-tank gun, the best of World War II and one of the most produced in history

Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of AK-47 and AK-74 assault rifles, world's most popular (produced more than all other types of assault rifles combined)
Yuly Khariton, chief designer of the Soviet atomic bomb, co-developer of the Tsar Bomb
Nikolai Kibalchich, pioneer of rocketry. The International Astronomical Union honoured the rocketry pioneer by naming a crater on the Moon Kibal'chich.
Sergei Korolyov, inventor of the soviet unions intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7 Semyorka)
Mikhail Koshkin, designer of T-34 medium tank, the most produced tank of World War II

Semyon Lavochkin, designer of the La-series aircraft and the first operational surface-to-air missile S-25 Berkut
Nikolai Lebedenko, designer of the Tsar Tank, the largest armoured vehicle in history

Nikolay Makarov, designed the Makarov pistol, the Soviet Union's standard military side arm from 1951 to 1991
Victor Makeev, inventor of the Soviet Unions submarine-launched ballistic missile
Nestor Makhno, anarchist, legendary inventor of tachanka
Alexander Morozov, designer of T-54/55 (the most produced tank in history), co-developer of T-34
Sergey Mosin, inventor of the Mosin–Nagant rifle, one of the most produced in history to this day

Alexander Nadiradze, creator of the Soviet Unions first mobile ICBM (RT-21 Temp 2S) and the Soviet Union's first reliable mobile ICBM RT-2PM Topol
Andrey Nartov, polymath inventor, designed quick-firing battery and cannon telescopic sight
Mosin
Sergey Nepobedimy, designed the first supersonic anti-tank guided missile Sturm and other Soviet rocket weaponry
Gennadiy Nikonov, inventor of the AN-94 assault rifle with the "straight-back bolt" scheme
Aleksandr Nudelman, inventor of the NS-37, NS-23, N-37, NS-45, N-57, NS-76, NR-23, NR-30 autocannons, S-5, S-8, S-25 rockets, the 3M11 Falanga missile and its variants, the 9K112 Kobra, the Strela-1, 9K35 Strela-10

Nikolay Popov, designed the first operational gas turbine tank T-80
Aleksandr Porokhovschikov, inventor of Vezdekhod (Russias first prototype continuous track tank, or tankette, and the first Russian continuous track amphibious ATV)

Andrei Sakharov, physicist, inventor of explosively pumped flux compression generator, co-developer of the Tsar Bomb, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Pavel Schilling, inventor of Russias electric mine
Nartov
Vyacheslav Silin, designer of the Silin machine gun
Georgi Shpagin, designer of the PPSh-41 submachine gun
Boris Shavyrin, inventor of air-augmented rocket
Boris Shpitalniy, inventor of the aircraft ShKAS machine gun and ShVAK cannon
Pyotr Shuvalov, founder of Izhevsk, inventor of canister shot mortar, introduced the unicorne mortar
Sergei Simonov, designer of the SKS carbine, and AO-31 and AG-043 assault rifles
Vladimir Simonov, inventor of underwater assault rifle and AO-63 assault rifle
Alexey Sudayev, designer of the PPS submachine gun

Peter Tkachev, inventor of the Balanced Automatic Recoil System and designer of the TsNIITochMash AO-63 assault rifle
Fedor Tokarev, designer of TT-33 handgun and SVT-40 self-loading rifle, Soviet weapons used in World War II, also the leader of the EAI

Alphabetical list