Mikhail Kalashnikov

1919 - 2013

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: Soviet Union, Russia

native language: Russian

languages spoken, written or signed: Russian

educated at: Voroniha village secondary school

occupation: design engineer

award received: State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Star, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the October Revolution, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class, Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called, Order of Honor, Dostyk Order of grade I, Order of Military Merit, Order of the Star of Carabobo, Order of Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy 2nd Class, орден «За заслуги перед Алтайским краем» I степени, "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal, орден Святителя Николая Чудотворца 1 степени, Lenin Prize, Zhukov Medal, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Hero of Socialist Labour, Hero of the Russian Federation, Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR", Medal "Veteran of Labour", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow", Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Gold Star, Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, State Prize of the Russian Federation, Merited industrial worker of the USSR, Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Медаль «За видатний внесок у розвиток колекційної справи в Росії»

position held: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (UK: , US: ; Russian: Михаил Тимофеевич Калашников, IPA: [kɐˈlaʂnʲɪkəf]; 10 November 1919 – 23 December 2013) was a Soviet and Russian lieutenant general, inventor, military engineer, writer, and small arms designer. He is most famous for developing the AK-47 assault rifle and its improvements, the AKM and AK-74, as well as the RPK light machine gun and PK machine gun.Kalashnikov was, according to himself, a self-taught tinkerer who combined innate mechanical skills with the study of weaponry to design arms that achieved battlefield ubiquity. Even though Kalashnikov felt sorrow at the weapons' uncontrolled distribution, he took pride in his inventions and in their reputation for reliability, emphasizing that his rifle is "a weapon of defense" and "not a weapon for offense". Source: Wikipedia (en)

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