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Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (UK: / k ə ˈ l æ ʃ n ɪ k ɒ f / kə-LASH-nik-off, US: /-ˈ l ɑː ʃ-/- LAHSH-; [4] [5] Russian: Михаил Тимофеевич Калашников, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil tʲɪmɐˈfʲejɪvʲɪtɕ kɐˈlaʂnʲɪkəf]; 10 November 1919 – 23 December 2013) was a Soviet and Russian lieutenant general, inventor, military engineer, writer, and small arms ...
Stoner (left) and Kalashnikov hold the rifles they designed, May 22, 1990. On May 16, 1990, Stoner and Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47 and its derivatives, met for the first time. They spent the next few days talking, sharing stories, shopping, going out to dinner and touring Washington D.C.
Kalashnikov, who turned 94 years old at the time of the opening, said he was unable to attend the opening ceremony due to poor health (he died only the following month). Kalashnikov had donated numerous personal items to the museum, including an honorary professor's robe from Harvard University and a letter from late Venezuelan President, Hugo ...
Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919–2013), lieutenant-general, Hero of the Russian Federation, creator of the Kalashnikov rifle; Nikolai Kuimov (1957–2021), lieutenant colonel, Hero of the Russian Federation; Alexei Leonov (1934–2019), major-general, two times Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut and first person to walk in space
Kalashnikov was born 16 July 1942 in Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, the son of small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, creator of the AK-47, [5] and Ekaterina Viktorovna Kalashnikova. [3] [4] Victor graduated in 1966 from a mechanical institute in Izhevsk in the Soviet Union. [1]
Las Vegas police identified Matthew Alan Livelsberger as the driver of the Cybertruck who died in the New Year's Day bombing. Cybertruck bombing appears to be suicide of veteran who had PTSD, FBI says
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2013.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union and a reformer who helped end the Cold War and lead his country from communism to capitalism, died Tuesday.