Mikhail Kalashnikov

✶November 10, 1919

†December 23, 2013

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Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov 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.

Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)

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