Sergei Mosin was a 19th century military engineer who upon graduating from the Mikhailov Military Artillery Academy in 1875 moved to Tula to work in its arsenal. Mosin worked in Tula up until 1894 and it was here he earned his name as a developer of rifles. This monument to him was unveiled in the park of Skver Tulskogo Oruzheynogo Zavoda (Tula Arsenal Square) in 1958 and is the work of the famous sculptor Vera Mukhin.