There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

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Dawn of SVT rifle (view original)

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Description

Automatic carbine from year 1918. Tokarev combined his ideas with Mosin rifle. You can see it's bolt mechanism is clearly similar to SVT-40 rifle.

From this rifle will be later developed widely known SVT-40. Rifle that has very important place in history of firearms. Leading Germans to G43 (G43 leading to Stg-44), Belgians to FN FAL, Mikhail Kalashnikov to AK and other constructors to many other weapon designs.