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 ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov's AK-47, sometimes called the Kalashnikov, became the world's most ubiquitous weapon. For the most part, Kalashnikov defended his brainchild, designed 'for the glory of the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

FILE - DECEMBER 23, 2013: Mikhail Kalashnikov, Inventor Of Kalashnikov Assault Rifle, Dies At 94 IZHEVSK, RUSSIA - NOVEMBER 23: Mikhail Kalashnikov, the father of the world's most popular assault ...