The Biography of the Main Gun Designer Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov Kalashnikov was born on November 10, 1919, in the village of Kurya, Altai Territory, to a large peasant family. After finishing the 9-th form of a secondary school M T. Kalashnikov went to work in the Matai depot as an apprentice and was subsequently a technical clerk in the employ of a Turkistan-Siberian railway department. In 1938 M T. Kalashnikov was called up for Red Army, served in a special military region in Kiev, there he finished the tank mechanical school.
During the service in army he devised an inertia revolution counter to register the number of actual shots from a tank gu... Читать дальше »