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M.T. Kalashnikov

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The name known throughout the world

Mikhail Timofeevich KalashnikovMikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov entered the history of small-arms as a designer of a submachine gun which became a legend of the arms industry in XX century.

M.T. Kalashnikov was the first in the world who invented a design, which became the basis for a line of unified automatic arms models. The derivatives have identical automatic action, design and operating principle to give great advantage to the armament of military forces.