Officer Rifle School

At the beginning of the XVIII century, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, next to the new Russian capital under construction - St. Petersburg, the closest associate of Peter I A. D. Menshikov was founded, next to which the city of Oranienbaum was rebuilt. The development of the city was largely determined by various regiments and units of the Russian army. By the end of the 19th century, the city of Oranienbaum, the city-forming, were the 147th Samara Regiment and the Officer Rifle School, which was able to go from the exemplary infantry battalion to the largest research center for the testing of small arms, the tactics of its use and the training of qualified personnel.
It was here, in Oranienbaum, that the Russian 3-line rifle S.I. Mosin was adopted, tested, tested and, according to the results of the tests. Here, a machine gun machine of A. A. Sokolov was completed at the gun landfill. For more than 50 years, this weapon was the main for the infantry of the Russian, and then the Red Army, three wars passed, deserved the rank - weapons of victory. In Oranienbaum, the automatic rifle V. G. Fedorov was made and tested, the first sample of the self -loading rifle F.V. was developed and tested Tokarev. The locksmith of the Oranienbaum rifle landfill V. A. Degtyarev, thanks to the knowledge and experience gained in a rifle school, became the most outstanding designer of small arms in the pre -war USSR. In Oranienbaum, the first Russian body armor, armored vehicles and rifle grenade launchers were tested, textbooks and manuals for the Russian army were developed, compasses, binoculars, rangefinders and all kinds of shooting devices were tested and finalized.
About this and much more from the history of the city of military glory of Oranienbaum (Lomonosov) and the officer rifle school is told in the book. It is designed for those who are interested in the history of Russia, the Russian army, the history of small arms. The book will be useful to teachers of history, museum workers, guides and everyone who is engaged in the patriotic education of modern youth and military personnel of the Russian army.
The book in the book as much as possible, as available at the moment, has the biographies of many of those who created and led the educational infantry battalion, officer rifle school and marine training and gunner teams. The fate of those who participated in the development and tests of various rifle weapons, optical devices and compasses, and manuals for training in shooting are also described