Interesting facts about Kalashnikov

Interesting facts about Mikhail Kalashnikov Is a great opportunity to learn more about Soviet weapon designers. It was he who created the famous AK-47 assault rifle. As of today, AK and its modifications are considered the most common small arms.

So, here are the most interesting facts about Mikhail Kalashnikov.

1. Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919-2013) - Russian designer, doctor of technical sciences and lieutenant general.
2. Mikhail was 17 children in a large family, in which 19 children were born, and only 8 of them managed to survive.
3. For the invention of the machine in 1947, Kalashnikov was awarded the 1st degree Stalin Prize. It is curious that the prize was 150,000 rubles. For such a sum in those years it was possible to buy 9 Pobeda cars!
4. Did you know that as a child, Mikhail Kalashnikov dreamed of becoming a poet? His poems were even published in a local newspaper.
5. The AK-47 is so easy to make that in some countries it is less expensive than chicken.
6. According to Foreign Policy estimates, in Afghanistan (see interesting facts about Afghanistan) a Kalashnikov assault rifle can be purchased for as little as $ 10.
7. As of today, there are over 100 million AK-47s in the world. It follows from this that there is 1 machine gun for every 60 adults in the world.
8. The Kalashnikov assault rifle is in service with the armies of 106 different countries.
9. In some countries, boys are called Kalashs, after the Kalashnikov assault rifle.
10. An interesting fact is that Mikhail Kalashnikov was terrified of water. This was due to the fact that as a child he fell under the ice, as a result of which he almost drowned. After this incident, the designer, even at the resorts, tried to stay close to the coast.
11. AK-47 pictured.
12. In Egypt, on the coast of the Sinai Peninsula, you can see a monument to the legendary machine gun.
13. The overwhelming majority of the video messages of the terrorist Osama bin Laden were recorded against the background of a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
14. The AK-47 is the most common weapon used in computer games.
15. Few people know the fact that at his dacha near Izhevsk, Kalashnikov cut the grass with a lawn mower, which he designed with his own hands. He collected it from a cart and parts from a washing machine.
16. It is curious that in Iraq (see interesting facts about Iraq) a mosque was built, the minarets of which are made in the form of AK shops.
17. Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had a gilded AK, a modified design.
18. At the end of the last century, the publication "Liberation" recognized the Kalashnikov assault rifle as the invention of the century. In terms of popularity, weapons have overtaken the atomic bomb and spacecraft.
19. According to statistics, every year about 250,000 people die from AK bullets in the world.
20. An interesting fact is that more people were destroyed from a Kalashnikov assault rifle than from air attacks, artillery fire and rocket attacks combined.
21. Mikhail Timofeevich began the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) in August 1941 as a tanker with the rank of senior sergeant.
22. The first case of mass military use of AK on the world stage occurred on November 1, 1956, during the suppression of the uprising in Hungary.

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