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Fedor (Fyodor) Vasilievich Tokarev (1871-1968) was a Russian weapons designer and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1941 to 1950. Outside the former Soviet Union he is best remembered for the creation of the Tokarev TT-33 semiautomatic handgun and the Tokarev SVT-40 self-loading rifle which were two common (although relatively scarce compared to the Mosin Nagant and the PPSh-41) firearms of the Soviet Union during World war 2 (known in Russia as the Great patriotic war). Due to his contributions in Soviet arms design he received a Hero of socialist labor award in 1940.