#Degtyarev
The 7.62x54 Degtyarev RPD, the KB-P-345
Vasily Alekseevich Degtyarev was one of the Soviet Union's most talented weapon designers. His most significant achievements were creating the DP-27 light machine gun in 1927, the large-caliber Degtyarev DShK in the 1930s, and the RPD light machine gun, developed in 1944 for an intermediate cartridge.
