About Mikhail Kalashnikov
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov was a Soviet and Russian lieutenant general, inventor, military engineer, writer, and small arms designer. He is most famous for developing the AK-47 assault rifle and its improvements, the AKM and AK-74, as well as the RPK light machine gun and PK machine gun.
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Awards & Honors
Lenin Prize
Order of Military Merit
Order of Lenin
Hero of Socialist Labour
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
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Order of Friendship of Peoples
Hero of the Russian Federation
Order of the Red Star
Order of the October Revolution
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called
Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"
"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal
Zhukov Medal
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Order of Honor
Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
State Prize of the Russian Federation
Merited industrial worker of the USSR
Order of the Star of Carabobo
Medal “For Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Collecting in Russia”.
Gold Star
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
Military Order of Saint Nicholas, 1st Class
Order “For Merit to the Altai Krai”, 1st Class
Order of Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy 2nd Class
Dostyk Order of grade I
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree
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