Degtyaryov DP

The Degtyaryov Light Machine gun was developed by Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov at the Soviet Small Arms design bureau and was the standard issue light Machine gun for the Red Army during World War II and some years after, until it was replaced by the RPK. The most common versions are the DP (Degtyaryov Pechotnyi), the DPM and the RP-46. The DP and DPM were issued in tank mounted versions known as DT models (DTM/DA). DA and its twin version DA-2 were mounted on airplanes.

Note: This gun (and it's inventor) is almost universally mispronounced in the English speaking world as Degtyarev. That is due to the reading of the original Cyrillic of the name. Despite having an "e" before the last letter, the "e" has an umlaut (ё) so it is pronounced "yo" rather than "eh". But many times the umlaut is hard to see or omitted entirely. Thus the correct pronunciation is Degtyaryov, despite being mispronounced and mis-written all over the net.

The Degtyaryov machine gun and variants have appeared in the following films and video games used by the following actors:

Degtyaryov DP-27/DP-28

Degtyarev DP-28 machine gun, 7.62x54mm R

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Thirteen (Trinadtsat)		Red Army men		1936
Two Soldiers (Dva boytsa)	Mark Bernes	Arkady Dzjubin		1943
Two Soldiers (Dva boytsa)	Boris Andreyev	Sasha Svintsov		1943
The Marine Battalion (Morskoy batalion)	Aleksei Konsovsky	Frolkin		1944
The Marine Battalion (Morskoy batalion)	Lidiya Smirnova	Varya Markina		1944
The Marine Battalion (Morskoy batalion)		Soviet soldiers		1944
The Tank Brigade		Russian soldier		1955
Soldiers (Soldaty)		Red Army soldiers		1956
Pork Chop Hill		Chinese soldiers		1959
At Your Threshold (U Tvoyego Poroga)		Russian soldiers		1964
The Living and the Dead (Zhivye i Myortvye)		Russian soldiers		1964
Spring on The Oder (Vesna na Odere)		Russian soldiers		1967
White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni)‎	Anatoly Kuznetsov	Fyodor Sukhov	Mocked up as Lewis light machine gun	1970
Trial of the Road (Proverka na dorogakh)		Partisans		1971
Officers (Ofitsery)		Spanish Republican		1971
The Hot Snow (Goryachiy Sneg)	Nikolai Yeryomenko, Jr.	Lt. Drozdovsky		1972
Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (V boy idut odni "stariki")		Soviet soldiers		1973
At Home Among Strangers, Stranger at Home (Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh)	Nikita Mikhalkov	Brylov	Mocked up as Lewis light machine gun	1974
Under a Stone Sky	Fyodor Odinokov	Grigory Ivanovich		1974
Under a Stone Sky	Evgeni Leonov	Lt. Kravtsov		1974
They Fought for Their Country		Russian soldiers		1975
Sokolovo		Russian soldiers		1975
Dozhit do rassveta		Russian soldiers		1975
One-Two, Soldiers Were Going...		Russian soldiers		1977
The Liberation of Prague		Russian soldier		1978
Personal Safety Not Guaranteed (Lichnoy bezopasnosti ne garantiruyu)	Aleksei Krymov	Nikolai Sivyi	.	1980
	.	Soldier in the train	.
Kto zaplatit za udachu?	Vasily Bochkaryov	Dmitry	Mocked up as Lewis light machine gun	1980
Kto zaplatit za udachu?	Vitaly Solomin	Kuskov	Mocked up as Lewis light machine gun	1980
The Sixth (Shestoy)	Yevgeni Bakalov	Arystarch	Mocked up as Lewis light machine gun	1981
Ambush		Finnish soldier		1999
Brother 2		Fascist		2000
The Pianist		Polish resistance fighter		2002
We Were Soldiers		NVA soldiers		2002
The ‎Star (Zvezda)		Russian soldier		2002
Tae Guk Gi		North Korean soldiers		2004
Downfall		German soldiers		2004
Children of Glory		Soviet Army soldiers		2006
Children of Glory		Hungarian insurgents		2006
The Front Line (2011)	.	North Korean Army	.	2011

Television

Show Title / Episode	Actor	Character	Note	Air Date
Czterej pancerni i pies	Janusz Gajos	Cpl. Janek Kos		1966-1970
		Soviet and Polish soldiers
The State Border: Film 3		Russian border guards		1982
		Bandits and Chinese soldiers	modified to resemble Lewis machine gun
The State Border: Film 4		Russian border guards		1984
		Basmachi fighters	modified to resemble Lewis machine gun
The State Border: Film 5		Russian border guards		1986
The State Border: Film 6		Russian border guards		1987
Liquidation (Likvidatsiya)		Soviet soldiers		2007

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Release Date
Battlefield: 1942			2002
Vietcong		Fist Alpha Expansion Pack	2003
Ghost Recon: Island Thunder	Russian 7.62 DP		2003
Call of Duty: United Offensive			2004
Vietcong 2			2005
Sniper Elite			2005
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45	DP28 Machine Gun		2006
Call of Duty: World at War			2008
Hidden & Dangerous 2			2003
Karma Online			2011
Project Reality: Vietnam			2012

Degtyaryov DPM

Degtyarev DPM, 7.62x54mm R

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Enemy at the Gates		Soviet Army soldiers		2001

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Release Date
Battlefield: Vietnam		Chinese Type 53 copy	2004

Degtyaryov RP-46

RP-46, 7.62x54mm R

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Release Date
Ghost Recon: Island Thunder	RP46		2003

Degtyaryov DT

DT machine gun - 7.62x54mm R

DT machine gun - 7.62x54mm R. DT could be dismounted from the tank or armored car and used with a bipod as a light machine gun. In such configuration it was favored by paratroopers.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Lad from Our Town (Paren iz Nashego Goroda)			Mounted in T-34 tank	1942
Two Soldiers (Dva boytsa)			Mounted in T-34 tank	1943
Maksim Perepelitsa			Mounted in IS-2 heavy tank	1955
The Adventures of Werner Holt (Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt)			Mounted in T-34-85 tanks	1965
At War as at War (Na Voyne kak na Voyne)			Mounted in T-34-85 tanks	1968
The Hot Snow (Goryachiy Sneg)			Mounted in fake Tiger tanks (visually modified T-34)	1972
Stalingrad			Mounted in T-34-85 tanks	1993
The Star (Zvezda)			Mounted in T-34-85 tanks	2002

Television

Show Title / Episode	Actor	Character	Note	Air Date
Czterej pancerni i pies	Malgorzata Niemirska	Sgt Lidka Wisniewska	Mounted in tank T-34 "Rudy"	1966-1970
The State Border: Film 5		German troops	Mounted in fake German tanks	1986

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Release Date
Call of Duty		Mounted in T-34 tanks	2003
Call of Duty: Finest Hour		Mounted in T-34 tanks	2004
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45		Bow-mounted in Universal Carrier, Turret-mounted in BA-64 Armoured Carrier, pintle-mounted on T60, T34/76, T34/85, IS-2 and KV-1S tanks	2006
Project Reality: Vietnam		Mounted in T-34 tanks	2012

Degtyaryov DA

DA machine gun - 7.62x54mm R

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Sea Outpost (Morskoy post)		Soviet aerial gunner	Mounted on hydroplane	1938

See Also

• V.A. Degtyarev Plant - A list of all firearms manufactured by V.A. Degtyarev Plant (ZiD).