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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.


















13 January 1958, Baku, USSR [now Azerbaijan]



December 21, 1980

May 24, 1958 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

August 20, 1949


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

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