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Attack RKKA supported by DT machine-gun, 1941

Russian heavy DShK machinegun at Dnepr, 1943

Some of the best Soviet machinegunners:

Nuradilov Hanpasha - about 920 killed enemies and 7 MGs.

Pugaev Stepan Alexandrovich - over 350 killed enemies.

Zhezheri Alexander (89th Guards regiment, 7.62mm Maxim) - it's known about 343 killed enemies, 3 MG emplacements.

Vedernikov Nikolay Stepanovich (969th rifle regiment) ~300 (including sniper score 41).

Chemodurov Vyacheslav Ivanovich (858th regiment) - about 300 killed enemies.

Sinyavin Fyodor Fyodorovich (9th Guards rifle regiment) - 190 killed Germans.

Junev Alexander Petrovich (2nd Guards airborne regiment) - it's known 153 killed enemies.

Namakonov Pyotr Georgievich (152nd rifle regiment) - 150 killed Japaneses.

Gluhov Fyodor Dmitrievich (184th Guards regiment) - it's known about approximately 140 killed enemies, 4 destroyed MG emplacements and 1 armored car.

Solodov Efim Mihailovich (220th regiment) - it's known about approximately 140 killed enemies, 3 destroyed MG emplacements and 1 pillbox.

Bogomolov Nikolay Trofimovich (142nd regiment) - it's known over 130 killed German soldiers.

Antonov Vasily Petrovich (271st regiment) - it's known approximately 130 killed enemies.

Kolomietz Petr Ivanovich (267th regiment) - it's known approximately 120 killed enemies.

Troshin Alexey Vasilievich - it's known about 108 killed enemies.

Romanov V.A. (162nd rifle division, 7.62mm Maxim) - it's known about over 100 killed German soldiers.

Harchenko M.S. (2nd Leningrad partisan brigade) - over 100 killed enemies.

Dohaev Hamali (273rd rfle regiment) - about 100.

V.P. Zharkov (262nd Guards regiment, 7.62mm Maxim) - 8 destroyed MG emplacements, and tens of enemies.

Solman Baybusunov (7.62mm Maxim) - 7 destroyed MG emplacements, and tens of enemies.

Sanochkin S.I.(247th Gards rifle regiment) - over 7 destroyed MG emplacements, and tens of enemies.

Cherepahin Sergey Pavlovich - it's known about 5 destroyed MG emplacements and 2 trucks, and tens of enemies.

If you can add any data on most effective MG-experts, please E-mail me. This list of MG aces is incompleted, because in Soviet army almost weren't statistics about personal victories. In many cases I was forced to use a fragmental sources, so some scores may be actually bigger.
This is the first most effective machinegunners in the internet. Before the establishment of my own domen wio.ru, this site grew up at the free hostings (geocities.com, then boom.ru).

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Captured MG-34 machinegun

**Soviet MachineGuns**
name	type	caliber, mm	weight, kg	muzzle speed, m/s	capacity	max ROF, shot/min	pract. ROF, shot/min	aim range, m
Maxim	heavy	7.62	62..66	860	band 250 (or 500)	600	250..300	2700
DP-27	light	7.62	12	840	clip 47	600	80	1500
DT-29	removable from a tank	7.62	10.5	840	disk 63	600	80..125	1000
DS-39	medium	7.62	33	855	band 250	600 / 1200	300..310	2400
SG-43	medium	7.62	40.4	800	band 250	500..700	300..350	2300
DShK-38	heavy	12.7	155	830..850	band 50	550..600	80	3500

DShK penetrated 16mm armor at 500m by the AP bullets. Also it had the AA mode featured with 1200 shots per minutes rate of fire.

Maxim machinegun in Stalingrad	Soviet DP machinegun team.
Maxim MG at Willys jeep

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