The book "Officer's Rifle School. The first small arms testing center of the Russian Army."

The publication is a detailed historical and local history study of the activities of the Officer Rifle School (OSH), which was located in the city of Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov). The school was not just an educational institution for advanced training of infantry officers, but the largest scientific testing center. On her Almost all samples of domestic and foreign small arms were tested and refined at the rifle range, including the famous 3-line rifle of S. I. Mosin, automatic weapons of V. G. Fedorov, F. V. Tokarev, V. A. Degtyarev, as well as the machine-gun machine of A. A. Sokolov for the Maxim machine gun (pictured on the cover). The book describes in detail the biographies of the school's founders, inventors, and gunsmiths. Authors: Vladimir Vasilyevich Zhuravlev, Andrey Vladimirovich Shadrin. The volume is 520 pages.