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

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian armorer credited with inventing the AK-47 “Kalashnikov” automatic rifle, has died at age 94.Kalashnikov was a self-taught inventor and Soviet soldier when, in ...

Last week, my friend and colleague, Mikhail Kalashnikov, was laid to rest in Moscow after a long and distinguished career that made his name instantly recognizable the world over. He will be long ...

As AK-47 inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov neared death, the man whose gun became one of the world's most prolific killing machines wrestled with guilt from the countless lives taken with his invention ...

Interviewers always asked Mikhail Kalashnikov the same question and he always gave the same answer: Yes, he could sleep at night. Quite easily, thank you. Kalashnikov, creator of the AK-47, a ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Soviet inventor and namesake of the world's most popular gun, the AK-47, died Monday. He was 94. Born into a peasant family in Siberia, Kalashnikov was at one point a ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov, who was in his 20s when he created the gun just after World War Two, died in his home city of Izhevsk, near the Ural Mountains, where his gun is still made, the Russian state ...

The merchant of death is dead: Mikhail Kalashnikov passed Monday at 94 in a hospital in Izhevsk, the capital of the Russian republic of Udmurtia. Of course you know his name; everyone knows his name.

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.

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.

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the former Red Army sergeant behind one of the world’s most omnipresent weapons — the AK-47 and its variants and copies, used by national armies, terrorists, drug gangs ...

The inventor of the iconic AK-47 automatic rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, has died. Kalashnikov's simple, durable and easily maintained gun became the world's most popular rifle, with more than 100 ...