By Michael T. Kalashnikov - an outstanding designer of small automatic weapons, Head of the Design Bureau of the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant, a colonel-engineer, deputy chief designer of "Izhmash" colonel-engineer, chief engineer - head office on small arms JSC "Concern" Izhmash "General Lieutenant"...

Introduction of The AK-47 Kalashnikov Museum Virtual Tour: come visit the military Museum of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of AK-47!
This is the very first guide on the subject - up to the present (JUne 2006), no other catalogue of the museum's collection is available, either in Russian or other languages, in print or in electronic format.
Currently, guided on-site tours to the museum are provided only in Russian - so, if you were to visit Izhevsk, but you don't know Russian, you'd need to bring an interpreter along with you to the museum to understand what the tour guide is saying. The purpose behind this virtual tour is to provide a richly illustrated tour in English, a language that is accessible to many of the world's people who are interested in all things Kalashnikov...

The Kalashnikov Weapons Museum and Exhibition Center was opened in the city of Izhevsk, Russia on November 4, 2004 - one week prior to Mikhail Kalashnikov's 85th birthday...

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...