Soviet soldier Mikhail Kalashnikov designs the AK-47 two years after the end of World War II in 1947: simple, durable, deadly ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov and the AK-47 remain a major part of WWII history. Designed by the famous engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov in WWII, the AK-47 remains one of the deadliest and most widely used ...

Russian Mikhail Kalashnikov invented the weapon that bears his name in the middle of the 20th century. Born on November 10, 1919, Kalashnikov was a tank mechanic in the Soviet military during the ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world s most popular firearm, has died at the age of 94, Monday Dec. 23, 2013.

Before his death in 2013, Mikhail Kalashnikov was a Russian lieutenant general and the military engineer behind the legendary AK-47. But as of Sept. 19, Kalashnikov is now a 30-foot bronze statue ...

MOSCOW — Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, reportedly wrote a regretful letter several months before his death asking the head of the Russian Orthodox Church if he… ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Soviet inventor of the most popular assault rifle in the world, died this morning at the age of 94. A former tank commander for the Soviet Union’s Red Army, Kalashnikov ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle, passed away this morning at the age of 94, according to the BBC. Kalashnikov’s contributions to small arms design cannot be overstated.

MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world's most popular firearm, died Monday at the age of 94.

A man uses an angle grinder as he removes a sketch allegedly featuring German StG44 rifle from a fragment of the newly unveiled monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47 assault ...

The statue, commissioned by the Russian Military Historical Society, is thirty feet tall and includes a larger than life Mikhail Kalashnikov holding his creation, the AK-47.

MOSCOW — Mikhail Kalashnikov started out wanting to make farm equipment, but the harvest he reaped was one of blood as the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, the world's most popular firearm.