- Sergei Ivanovich Mosin
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (pronounced "MO-seen", _ru. Сергей Иванович Мосин,
May 5 1849 -February 8 1902 ) was aRussia nengineer and a designer of theMosin-Nagant rifle .He entered into a
military academy at age 12 where he excelled as a soldier. In 1867, he entered theAlexandrovskoye Military High School inMoscow . Upon leaving Alexandrovskoye in 1870, he decided to go to theartillery branch and transferred to theMikhailovskoye Artillery Academy . He graduated in 1875 and transferred to the TulaArsenal where he became the head of themachining division. It was here he began his career as a weapons designer by first making improvements to the Berdan II and later the collaboration withNagant to design the Rifle of Three Lines of the Year 1891. Mosin eventually rose to the rank ofColonel and was appointed as the director of theSestroretsk arsenal . He died onFebruary 8 ,1902 and was buried in Tula.
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