The Garanin machine guns (Пулемёт Гаранина) were a series of general-purpose machine gun prototypes developed by Soviet designer Georgy Semenovich Garanin at OKB-575 in Kovrov.
This prototype was rejected in 1957 for failing to meet several of the technical requirements for accuracy and reliability.
A later prototype of Garanin relied on gas operation; this one was rejected in 1960, because it was considered inferior to the front-runner designs of Nikitin and Kalashnikov.
[1] The weapon was unusual among contemporary machine guns by its use of a lever-delayed blowback operation.
In the LMG configuration, the machine gun was a relatively light weapon to carry.