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	Mikhail Kalashnikov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov (Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников, born November 10, 1919) is a famous Russian gun designer.
		Kalashnikov, who started as a self-taught-inventor, ascended to the prominent position of General Designer of small arms for the Soviet Army.
		Mikhail Kalashnikov was awarded twice the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mikhail_Kalashnikov (547 words)

	MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV
		Mikhail Kalashnikov has gone down in the history of small arms as the creator of the world's best assault rifle and also as the designer who was the first in the world to develop and make operational an array of unified automatic small arms models, based on the identical automatic action, design and operating principle.
		Mikhail Kalashnikov was born on November 10, 1919, in the village of Kurya, Altai Territory, to a peasant family.
		In 1944 Mikhail Kalashnikov devised a prototype of the self-loading carbine; its main assemblies were used as a basis for an assault rifle made in 1946.
	www.vodkakalashnikov.com /biography.htm (1269 words)

	The Bio of the Main Gun Designer Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		After finishing the 9-th form of a secondary school M T. Kalashnikov went to work in the Matai depot as an apprentice and was subsequently a technical clerk in the employ of a Turkistan-Siberian railway department.
		In 1944 Kalashnikov developed an experimental model of the self-loading carbine, it's main units became the base for a creation of a new submachin gun in 1946 which gained a brilliant victory in difficult competitive tests.
		The cause of such great popularity of Kalashnikov submachine guns is in fact that Mikhail Timofeevitch has achieved an optimum combination of a number of qualities which provide the usage of guns with high efficiency of application and exclusive reliability in battles.
	kalashnikov.guns.ru /mk.html (1066 words)

	:: {Kalashnikov Vodka } ::
		Kalashnikov Vodka’ was designed and named after Lieutenant-General Mikhail Timoveeich Kalashnikov who is, at the age of 84, still a serving officer and the Head Designer of the Izhmash Engineering Plant in Izshevsk in Siberia.
		General Kalashnikov was a Tank Commander in WWII, known in Russia as The Great Patriotic War, and who fought number of battles against the Nazi occupation until wounded which is when he turned his energy to designing.
		General Mikhail T Kalashnikov is also the designer of the gun known as the AK47 for which he was made Hero of the Socialist Cause and awarded the Order of Lenin and The Gold Star of the Hammer & Sickle.
	www.kalashnikovvodka.com /the_vodka/10_things.php (359 words)

	Mikhail T. Kalashnikov
		Mikhail Kalashnikov was born to a family of peasants in the village of Kurya (now the Altai district) in 1919.
		Kalashnikov would spend six months in the hospital followed by a long recovery leave in Alma-Alta. It was during this time that he began designing weapons.
		Kalashnikov lost the argument in the end and went on to create the AK-74.
	www.russianwarrior.com /1947_Kalashnikov.htm (668 words)

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		Again, Kalashnikov's design was a loser, but with each passing rejection he was learning more about weapons design, and some of the features of his rifle that lost to Simonov would find their way into Kalashnikov's future designs.
		Kalashnikov was a newcomer to this competition but began thinking about how to develop an operating system that could be used in an entire family of small arms-assault rifle, light machine gun, and machine gun.
		Kalashnikov sent his design off for consideration in early 1946 and very shortly thereafter was advised to proceed with development of a prototype assault rifle.
	kalashnikovusa.com /page6.html (1028 words)

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		Mikhail was the seventeenth child of Timofei and Alexandra Kalashnikov.
		On finishing the 9th form of a secondary school, Kalashnikov went to work in the Matai depot as an apprentice and was subsequently a technical clerk in the employ of a Turkistan-Siberian railway department.
		In June 1941, Mikhail Kalashnikov, as an inventor, was sent by military district commander General of the Army G.K. Zhukov to Leningrad to implement his recent invention.
	www.milparade.com /kalashnikov/chapter1/01_01.shtml (1566 words)

	The History of Kalashnikov Gun PYOTR KONDRATENKO / Pravda 2aug03
		However, the true story of the machine gun and Mikhail Kalashnikov's role in it is not described anywhere, a lot of experts say.
		Mikhail Kalashnikov presented his first machine gun in the middle of 1946.
		Kalashnikov took account of all recommendations during the last stage of the tests and won the competition.
	www.mindfully.org /Technology/2003/Kalashnikov-History2aug03.htm (843 words)

	Kalashnikov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The development of the Kalashnikov (Avtomat Kalashnikova) started after tank commander Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov was badly injured during the battle of Bryansk in October 1941.
		Kalashnikov launched several types of this rifle; the AKS-74 with a folding stock, the RPK-74 light machinegun and a submachine gun version; the AKS-74U.
		During the Lebanon War the Klèshin (Kalashnikov) was without any doubt the most popular rifle, it was used by the Palestinian, the Muslim and the Christian militias, and even the Israeli Special Forces used it and the AK became a symbol for the radical Hizbullah.
	www.veteranen.info /~cedarsouthlebanon/ak-47/ak47.eng.htm (421 words)

	The Tribune...Sunday Reading
		There are more than 700 million Kalashnikovs in every violence-marred street of the globe, and it won’t be an exaggeration to say that till date the gun has probably killed more people across the globe than the two atom bombs.
		Kalashnikovs have been hailed for their simplicity and ruggedness as much as their fire power.
		As a 22-year-old tank Sergeant in the Red Army, Mikhail Kalashnikov, was thrown into the thick of battle at Bryansk against the seemingly invincible Nazis in 1941, he was injured and it was while lying on the hospital bed that the fluid idea of a Kalashnikov took shape to make history.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98nov15/sunday/head7.htm (1105 words)

	No regrets from Mikhail Kalashnikov at designing the universal weapon
		Kalashnikov, drafted into the Soviet army in 1938, designed his first sub-machinegun while on leave after being wounded fighting the Germans in October 1941.
		The Soviet military adopted Kalashnikov's AK rifles in 1949 and since then 70 million of the robust but lightweight guns have been manufactured around the world.
		The self-taught Kalashnikov, who went from being a railway worker to a colonel, said he was yet to test an assault rifle which can outperform the battle-hardy AK series.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040206013819.x1razpkv.html (519 words)

	:: {Kalashnikov Vodka } ::
		Kalashnikov, 84, who invented the AK-47, was in London on Monday for the official release of Kalashnikov vodka, which is distilled in St....
		PatrasToday.gr - Σήμερα - Kalashnikov Vodka...Μιλκ-σέικ αιτία για βόμβα;.
		Kalashnikov ti turule uue relva - vodka 21.09.2004 08:15...
	www.kalashnikovvodka.com /news/online_news.php (6066 words)

	Engology.com, 'Engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov', Professional / Chartered Engineering as a Cutting-edge Career, Women in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Designed by Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, a Soviet Engineer, few other assault rifles are as universally recognized as the AK-47.
		Kalashnikov began design of the weapon in the late 1940's with the help of a machinest friend, Zhenya Kravchenko.
		The weapon was available in two versions: the AK with a fixed wooden stock, and the AKS which had a folding stock and was issued primarily to armor and airborne troops.
	www.engology.com /EngKalashnikov.htm (404 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Coming soon - the Kalashnikov brolly?
		Mikhail Kalashnikov, 83, has reportedly secured a 30% share of the German MMI company - which specialises in umbrellas - in exchange for use of his name.
		Mr Kalashnikov, who lives in a modest one-bedroom flat in the Urals city of Izhevsk, said the Solingen-based company's products were somewhat similar to his AK-47 rifle.
		Moves are also afoot to produce Kalashnikov mineral water and vodka-based cocktails, MMI head Thomas Herriger told the newspaper.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2772975.stm (224 words)

	The Free Information Society - Mikhail Kalashnikov Biography
		Mikhail Timoveeich Kalashnikov was born on November 10, 1919 in the town of Kurya, Russia.
		One of the scientists there, Blagonravov, was impressed by Mikhail's ingenuity and made sure that he had all of the materials he needed.
		In 1944, Mikhail finished his development of a self-loading carbine, which could be fired very quickly.
	www.freeinfosociety.com /site.php?postnum=73 (471 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Interview: Mikhail Kalashnikov
		Kalashnikov admits that watching the television pictures of the massacre was "obviously unpleasant".
		Kalashnikov's quiet life in the woods outside Izhevsk could be seen as an attempt to distance himself from what his invention has become.
		The new world of the Kalashnikov is the fall of an empire and two generations away from its inception.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,1059879,00.html (1584 words)

	The Scotsman - International - Kalashnikov gives name to 'manly' but less lethal products
		Lightweight, reliable and deadly, the "Kalash" was invented by Mikhail Kalashnikov, a Red Army tank commander, as he lay in a hospital bed recovering from injuries sustained in the Second World War.
		"Kalashnikov is about to get his revenge," said the daily Moskovsky Komsomolets, which explained that the seeds for the deal with MMI were sown four years ago, when the company’s chief executive stumbled across the inventor in his home town, Izhevsk, in Siberia.
		The Kalashnikov rifle was first issued as the standard Red Army issue in 1949 and quickly acquired near-mythical status as a hardy, reliable weapon.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=209462003 (865 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Kalashnikov experienced unjust political reprisals, war, serious wounds, neglect of his first weapon systems, and the bitterness of undeserved offense and the loss of
		Today, General Mikhail Kalashnikov is a holder of every top prize of his country, from the Stalin Prize to the State Prize of Russia, and all top awards of the USSR and the Russian Federation.
		We have seen how popular this man is. Undoubtedly, Kalashnikov is one of the brightest personalities of the 20th century and our great contemporary who has augmented his Homeland's glory with his work and talent.
	russianarms.info /enghtm/books/weapons/54/index1.htm (782 words)

	Firearm Technical Trivia, February 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov was born on November 10, 1919 to a modest peasant family in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan.
		Kalashnikov continued to refine his submachine gun design, and when it was complete, it was sent to the Dzerzhinskiy Artillery Academy for testing and evaluation.
		Kalashnikov continued working on his automatic rifle, but he was not the first to develop an automatic rifle chambered for the M1943 cartridge.
	www.cruffler.com /trivia-February01.html (2415 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / In Russia, a top gun still soldiering on
		The Kalashnikov has been the primary weapon, often for both sides, in most of the 40-odd wars of the past decade.
		Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov is a snub-nosed pistol of a gentleman, with hair so silver it looks nickel-plated.
		Kalashnikov still heads the team of small-arms designers at the Izhmash weapons complex, although the state-owned factory makes few military weapons these days.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2003/11/28/in_russia_a_top_gun_still_soldiering_on?mode=PF (1148 words)

	Kalashnikov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mikhail Kalashnikov, who designed the AK-47, and most of the other rifles in the Kalashnikov series
		The Kalashnikov Variation of the Sicilian Defense, a sequence of opening moves in chess.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kalashnikov (132 words)

	The World Press Review - News - Interview with Mikhail Kalashnikov - World News
		Born in November 1919—one of 18 children, of whom only six survived—Mikhail Kalashnikov was a Soviet T-38 tank commander in 1941, wounded in the shoulder and back when a German shell smashed part of the tank’s armor into his body.
		And, of course, I asked old Mikhail Kalashnikov how he could justify all this blood, all those corpses torn to bits by his invention.
		It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places.
	www.worldpress.org /cover5.htm (517 words)

	AK-47 HISTORY
		This firearm was designed by Russian inventor and soldier Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, who was born in 1919 and is still alive.
		In 1990 the Army was equipped with the modernized Kalashnikov submachine gun AK-74M, having folding plastic butt with the accessory placed in it and a plate for mounting optical and night sights.
		Nowadays Kalashnikov submachine guns, the series 100, are developed with the purpose of expansion of their nomenclature for various types of cartriges and export.
	www.vodka47.com /history.htm (497 words)

	Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov Designer Of The AK47
		In the army, he designed a device to count the number of shots fired by a tank as well as other useful tactical devices for tanks.
		In 1944 his first prototype was adopted for further development and finally in 1949 the soviet army adopted the Automatic Kalashnikov design of 1947 as their standard rifle.
		Of interest is the fact that American also relied on a self taught inventor, John Garand who developed the M1 30 caliber semi-automatic rifle used by U.S. Troops in World War II and Korea.
	www.bobtuley.com /kalashnikov.htm (219 words)

	Gun maker Kalashnikov to participate in Arms Show in Minsk :: Charter'97 :: News :: 18/05/2005
		Gun designer Mikhail Kalashnikov will take part in the MILEX 2005 international arms show slated for May 17 to 20 in Minsk, Belarus, a spokesman for Russian company Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday.
		Rosoboronexport, the state-owned intermediary in arms export, is the organizer of the united Russian exposition at the show, the spokesman said.
		Mikhail Kalashnikov is to represent the Union of Russian Armorers, which president he is.
	www.charter97.org /eng/news/2005/05/18/kalashnikov (348 words)

	cooltech.iafrica.com \| tech news Take cover — with a Kalashnikov
		83-year-old Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian godfather of the world's favourite assault rifle, has bought 30 percent of the MMI Company in Germany, according to the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
		Negotiations are also underway with a drinks manufacturer in Dortmund with a view to producing Kalashnikov mineral water and a perhaps easier-to-market vodka-based cocktail, Herriger told the paper.
		Kalashnikov decided to invent his famous gun after he was injured during the Second World War.
	cooltech.iafrica.com /technews/211354.htm (261 words)

	ConTemporary Insanity! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Capable of discharging 400 blades of grass per minute with a kill diameter of 3 feet, the Kalashnikov mower was a marvel of modern engineering.
		It was during those turbulent times that Mikhail Kalashnikov, attempting to keep pace with American innovation, rolled out his newest version: the Riding Boy-chik.
		He denounced it as an imperialist tool of the bourgeoisie, although everyone suspected the true reason was that the seat was too small for his buttocks, which aggravated his piles.
	www.contemporaryinsanity.com /Archive/Kalash.html (589 words)

	Best of Russia --- Famous Russians --- Scientists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Mikhail Lomonosov was the one who created a system of higher education in Russia.
		Kalashnikov was born on November 10, 1919, in the village of Kurya, Altai Territory, to a large peasant family.
		The cause of such great popularity of Kalashnikov submachine guns is in the fact that Kalashnikov has achieved an optimum combination of a number of qualities which provide the usage of guns with high efficiency of application and exclusive reliability in battles.
	www.bestofrussia.ca /scientists.html (2483 words)

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