The legendary Mikhail Kalashnikov died

On 95, the legendary designer of infantry passed away. weapons Mikhail Kalashnikov. 17 November, he was hospitalized with a diagnosis of gastric bleeding.
Mikhail Kalashnikov is a world famous designer. His main offspring - a Kalashnikov assault rifle - is recognized as the invention of the century and is depicted on the banners and emblems of some countries. To date, about a hundred countries around the world have adopted and use Kalashnikov assault rifles. Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov was born on November 10, 1919 in the village of Kurya, Altai Territory. In 1936, after graduating from the 9th grade of the school, Mikhail left for Kazakhstan, where he worked at the Matai railway station depot. In the fall of 1938 he was drafted into the army and served in the Kiev Special Military District, graduating from the school of driver mechanics tank. Already there, Kalashnikov showed his inventive abilities - he developed an inertial counter for shots from a tank gun, an adaptation to a TT pistol, and created a device for recording the tank engine’s engine life.
During the last 1941 invention in January, General of the Army G.Zhukov presented a nominal clock to Kalashnikov and sent him to one of the parts of the Moscow Military District, on the basis of which the device was tested. After completion of the test Michael was sent to Leningrad plant im.Voroshilova, for completion and implementation of his invention into production. The Great Patriotic War, Kalashnikov began in August 1941, the tank commander, but in October near Bryansk was seriously wounded and spent several months in the hospital, where he caught fire with the idea of ​​creating his own model of automatic weapons, made sketches and drawings. After the hospital, Mikhail, while on leave for follow-up care, returned to Matai, where in the depot workshops he created a prototype of a submachine gun. A well-known scientist in the field of small arms A. Blagonravov became interested in this Kalashnikov invention.
In 1942, Kalashnikov was sent to serve in the Central Research Grounds for Small Arms of the Main Artillery Directorate of the Red Army. There, with 1945, Michael began developing his automatic weapons. After the competition, his automaton project was deemed worthy of manufacturing, and in 1949, the machine was adopted by the Soviet Army under the name “7,62-mm Kalashnikov assault rifle 1947 of the year” (AK), and Kalashnikov was sent to Izhevsk to work at a machine-building plant, where worked until recently. In subsequent years, dozens of models of automatic small arms, later adopted for service, were developed at the AK base in the Kalashnikov design bureau. Mikhail Timofeevich is also known as a designer of machine guns, and his self-loading hunting carbines "Saiga" gained immense popularity among hunting enthusiasts in our country and abroad. More than a dozen modifications carbines are available now.
Lieutenant-General and Doctor of Technical Sciences Kalashnikov had 35 copyright certificates for inventions and was an academician of 16 various Russian and foreign academies. He was also an Honorary Citizen of Izhevsk, Udmurtia, the Altai Territory and the village of Kurya, was a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR several convocations. The winner of many state awards, the Hero of Russia, Kalashnikov was awarded many Soviet and Russian orders and medals, as well as state awards in other countries. In honor of the inventor, the award “Sign“ Designer of Small Arms MT Kalashnikov ”and the Kalashnikov Prize were instituted. In the village of Kurya - a lifetime bronze bust has been set for him, the Kalashnikov Museum and Exhibition Complex has been opened in Izhevsk. His name is carried by the Cadet school of the city of Votkinsk, the audience at the military department of the Mining Institute of St. Petersburg. Kalashnikov was married. His wife Catherine, whom he met at the end of the war, died in 1977.