二战前,苏联红军的战术思想和美国一样,想通过装备自动装填步枪来增强步兵单位的火力,并开始着手研制这种步枪。当大多数国家仍旧使用手动装填步枪时,只有美国和苏联率先装备了半自动步枪,美军装备的是著名的M17．62mm伽兰德半自动步枪, 而苏联红军装备的则是SVT 7．62mm丰自动步枪。SVT是“托卡列夫自动装填步枪”(Samozaryadnaya Vintovka Tokareva)的缩写,由苏联著名的轻武器设计师费德洛·托卡列夫设计,早前, 由他设计的TT-33自动手枪已装备苏联红军。 Prior to World War II, the tactical thinking of the Soviet Red Army, like the United States, wanted to increase the firepower of infantry units by equipping it with automatic loading rifles and started to develop such rifles. When most countries still used manual loading rifles, only the United States and the Soviet Union took the lead in providing semi-automatic rifles, the U.S. military equipped with the famous M17.62mm Garand semi-automatic rifle, and the Soviet Red Army equipped with SVT 7.62mm Feng automatic rifles . SVT is an acronym for “Samozaryadnaya Vintovka Tokareva”, designed by the famous Soviet light weapons designer Federo Tokarev. Earlier, the TT-33 automatic pistol designed by him was equipped Soviet Red Army.