Журнал Viche 2006 №12

№12, 2006

From “theological talk of monks” to “national assemblage”

June, 14 1871

The prominent designer of soviet shooting weapon Fedir Vasyl’ovych Tokaryev was born. A Cossack by origin, he had a centenary life full of events and achievements. In 1940 he became the doctor of engineering sciences and the Hero of Socialist Labour because of the creation of the new models of shooting weapon. In 1925 he invented the hand machine-gun МТ, in 1930 – the self-loading pistol ТТ (the symbol of the soviet “politruk”, it was very popular among those, who was expected to have a personal weapon), in 1938 – the SRT rifle (self-loading rifle of Tokaryev, or the soviet warriors called it blandly “Svyeta”).


Parliament is the expression of representative democracy, it is a national representative organ of power that fulfils its activity on a permanent basis and the “title” function of it is lawmaking.

Volodymyr SHAPOVALOV