About the author of this website

Hello. Thanks for visiting Modern Firearms website. I run this website since 1999, and I am the sole author and webmaster of this resource. As of now, this site contains well over 750 entries (each in two versions, in English and Russian languages). Every day this site is accessed by more than 40 thousands of unique visitors from around the world.

Ok, so here I am: Maxim Popenker, born in 1973 in Leningrad (now St.Petersburg), Russia. I still live there. I graduated from St.Petersburg State Technical University, and served in Russian army as lieutenant in Air Defense Forces. Since 2000 my primary job is to do programming on ABAP and SAP Script languages for SAP R/3 systems.
Firearms are my long term hobby; it started as a "just for fun" personal website in 1999, and by now I've worked (and keep working) for several domestic and foreign gun magazines, as well as wrote several books in Russian and English languages. Below you can see covers of these books.

Assault rifles of the world.
Published in Russia by AST press in 2004

Assault Rifle,
with Anthony G. Williams,
the Crowood Press (UK), 2004

Combat pistols of the world
Published in Russia by Atlant in 2005

Modern Combat Pistols,
the Crowood Press, 2006

Machine gun
with Anthony G. Williams
the Crowood Press, 2008

World war 2: war of gun makers,
with Marin Milchev.
Published in Russia by Yauza press, 2009

If you want to drop me a line, here's my email address: admin@modernfirearms.net
Also, you can reach me via ICQ - my UIN is 52700562

And more to come!