Biography
1888 - Admitted to the Military Vocational School at Novocherkassk; age 17
1892 - Graduated as Cossack noncommissioned officer and sent to the 12th Don Cossack Regiment as an armorer-artificer; age 21
1896 - Returned to Novecherkassk as Master Armorer Instructor; age 25. Applied for admittance to the Military Technical School.
1900 - Graduated as a Cossack commissioned officer, age 29, and returned to his old unit, the 12th Don Cossack Regiment as Master Gunsmith.
1910 - Submitted his version of a conversion of the bolt-action Model 1891 Mosin-Nagant rifle to semi-automatic fire, which merited official testing. Age 39
1927 - Designed Tokarev Model 1927 submachine gun prototype.
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