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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.
August 20, 1949
May 15, 1973 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
March 31, 1982 in Novosibirsk, Novosibirskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
11 July 1970, Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany
September 20, 1952 in Lvov oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
January 11, 1987 in Zainsk, Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR
January 15, 1946 in Zhilino, Volodarskiy rayon, Orlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
September 20, 1993 in Tuchkovo, Russia
April 6, 1956 in Moscow, USSR
December 21, 1980
January 22, 2010 in Russia

