>>510561514People don't give much credit to Stechkin, but he designed weapons his whole life, his last project was the OTs-38 silent revolver, that started production in 2001, the year he died.
Sure, most of his designs where rejected, but Russia is now producing rifles based on old desigens by Dragunov, like the AM-17 compact assault rifle and the SVCh marksman rifle, so who knows, maybe they bring some of those old Stechkin designs back.