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 ...

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, 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 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 was born on November 10, 1919 in the eastern village of Kurya (present-day Altai Krai, Russia) to a farming family during the Russian Revolution.

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 ...

The designer of the AK47 Kalashnikov assault rifle that has killed more people than any other gun in the world died today aged 94. Mikhail Kalashnikov, who was in his 20s when he created the gun ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov%2C father of the AK-47%2C is dead The Russian weapon designer was 94 He once aspired to design farm equipment MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons ...

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 ...

MOSCOW — Mikhail Kalashnikov started out wanting to make farm equipment, but the harvest he reaped was one of blood as the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, the world's most popular firearm.

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 ...

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 ...