Jan Gaudenty Skzhipinsky (Jan Gaudenty Skrzypinski) was born in 1891 in an entail property of Pulko in the Warsaw province in the veterinarian's family. In 1917 he graduated from mechanical faculty of the Kiev Polytechnic institute. At first he worked as the manager of automobile workshops in Ternopol, then the technical plant manager of farm vehicles in Kralivtsi (The Chernigov province), and subsequently the technical plant manager of "Pneumatics" in Krivoy Rog.
In 1921 he returned to Poland and started working as the chief engineer at plant of rifles in Warsaw, later since 1932 he became his director. 1637 people in 1923, 2 231 persons - in 1939 worked at plant. The plant made rifles, carbines and machine guns for land forces and for planes, for the Polish armed forces and for export (Afghanistan, China, Palestine, Uruguay, Turkey). Only for the Polish troops the plant from 1923 to 1929 let out 232 thousand pieces of firearms. Since 1931 the plant began to release typewriters, till 1938 made 8 thousand pieces.
Ya. Skzhipinsky was engaged in designing of the weapon together with the engineer Pyotr Vilnevchits he designed two guns: 1) the gun VIS (9 mm) started being released at plant in Radom (18 thousand pieces till 1939 received the Polish army and 310 thousand pieces Germans during occupation of Poland) 2) the MORS submachine gun (9 mm) made - the Warsaw plant till 1939 managed to make only a batch.
Ya. Skzhipinsky published in monthly Przeglad Techniczny (Technical inspec-tion) of article concerning industrial production and quality control of production. He was awarded by the Cavalry cross of the Award of revival of Poland.
He died in 1939 in Warsaw where he is buried.