
Kalashnikov [Sub: Eng]
Wounded as tank driver in 1941 during WWII, Kalashnikov sees the latest Soviet machine gun fail. As he's also an inventor, he starts looking for improvements and in 1947 ends up with AK-47 assault rifle.
















December 21, 1980

25 November 1965

April 6, 1956 in Moscow, USSR


26 October 1976


September 20, 1993 in Tuchkovo, Russia

March 31, 1982 in Novosibirsk, Novosibirskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

September 20, 1952 in Lvov oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR


January 15, 1946 in Zhilino, Volodarskiy rayon, Orlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

May 15, 1973 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]


January 22, 2010 in Russia

January 11, 1987 in Zainsk, Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR

December 8, 1992 in Reutov, Moskovskaya oblast, Russia

27 October 1983, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

August 20, 1949

11 July 1970, Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany


May 24, 1958 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan







13 January 1958, Baku, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
