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Mikhail Kalashnikov

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I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.


— Mikhail Kalashnikov


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I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.


— Mikhail Kalashnikov


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The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.


— Mikhail Kalashnikov


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Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.


— Mikhail Kalashnikov


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Life is composed of different inventions.


— Mikhail Kalashnikov


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We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.


— Mikhail Kalashnikov


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I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.


— Mikhail Kalashnikov


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I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.


— Mikhail Kalashnikov


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I made it to protect the motherland.


— Mikhail Kalashnikov


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I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.


— Mikhail Kalashnikov


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The PK series is a general-purpose machine gun. Izhmash the official manufacturer of AK-47 in Russia has patented the weapon only in 1997 and in 2006 accounted for only 10% of the world's production. On his 90th birthday on 10 November 2009 Kalashnikov was named a "Hero of the Russian Federation" and presented with a medal by President Dmitry Medvedev who lauded him for creating "the brand every Russian is proud of.

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (Russian: Михаил Тимофеевич Калашников; born 10 November 1919) is a Russian small arms designer most famous for developing the AK-47 AKM and AK-74 assault rifles.

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