Mikhail kalashnikov was born. Mikhail Kalashnikov: truth and myths. AK at the present time

A family

While working on the first prototype of the AK in 1946, Mikhail spotted his future wife Ekaterina Viktorovna Moiseeva. Katya at that time worked in the design bureau of the polygon as a draftswoman. She worked competently and accurately. She helped Mikhail prepare documentation and turn ideas into drawings.

M. T. Kalashnikov:

“I had a feeling of what the designer wanted from this or that detail, looking at our not always clear sketches. And it was even hard to work with me, since I did not have any special design training, and my ability to draw was very doubtful ...

Often, making drawings according to my sketches, Katya could not make them out. And I could not correctly explain. Sometimes it was necessary to make a part before the drawing, and then Katya took measurements from it and did the documentation. These frequent meetings of ours aroused certain hints from our comrades. And when they realized that I had also fallen in love with her, they simply began to overwhelm me with their jokes. Despite the intensity and seriousness of our work, despite the severity of the war, we remained young, perky and cheerful ... "

L. G. Koryakovtsev recalls:

“The draftsman Katya was a beautiful slender girl, with big eyes and dark wavy hair. The accent is correct, Moscow. He [Kalashnikov] immediately drew attention to how she used a drawing board, a pencil. How specifically she posed the questions and how accurately she grasped his explanations ... He enthusiastically engaged in what he loved, often staying up after midnight. Katya worked conscientiously, but she could only be delayed occasionally - she had a small child. Kalashnikov was also then married, had a son ... But life judged in its own way. "

Katya understood that he was not like the others, shy and courteous. Everyone seemed to be ashamed of something ... There was only one deterrent - daughter Nelya. Once they started talking about the meaning of life, the purpose of being at the training ground. And then Mikhail admitted that his target was a machine gun. Katya could not help but see in this purposeful guy an obsession with the main business of his life. And this madly attracted Katya. Although she tried to dissuade Mikhail from competing with the leading gunsmiths ... Katya imperceptibly entered the inner world of Miktim - the world of countless nodes, mechanisms and schemes, ideas and predictions. He definitely liked that this beautiful and young woman recognizes a personality in him, tries to show complicity in a big business, which is the meaning of his life. Gradually the decision was ripe to unite their destinies forever.

In 1947, Ekaterina Viktorovna and Mikhail Timofeevich had a daughter, Lena, and in 1953, Natasha. Three years later, Kalashnikov decided to bring fourteen-year-old Viktor from Kazakhstan - a son from his first wife, who died there suddenly. His wife supported Mikhail in this important decision for them: "His small age can make him an easy prey for unkind people." The family was formed large and rather complex in composition. Due to the enormous employment of her husband, all the worries about family life fell on the shoulders of Ekaterina Viktorovna. But she never regretted that.

Well, the life of the person who designed the legendary machine gun and the life cycle of the machine itself evolved in different ways. If by 1990 the AK had already won the hearts of most men on the planet, then its direct "parent" - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, continued to lead a modest, "restricted to travel" lifestyle. He lived in a small apartment in a house on Borodin Street, 11, in Izhevsk, of which he became an honorary citizen in 1987. Only once did Kalashnikov go outside Soviet Union, and even then on a tourist vacation in Bulgaria with his wife Ekaterina Viktorovna. It was in 1963. But to get permission for this trip, I had to go to the very Minister of Defense D.F.Ustinov. They allowed it, but only the last name had to be changed during the trip. So on his first trip abroad Mishan, as Ustinov called him fondly, went to Ivanov. The legend demanded that the true face and profession be carefully hidden.

M. T. Kalashnikov:

“My wife, Ekaterina Viktorovna Kalashnikova (Moiseeva), died in 1977. He was a wonderful, kind, charming person. The mother of my children. For the elder, Victor, she managed to be like a native. The guy grew up in care and attention. Followed in the footsteps of his father. The gunsmith designer is now at Izhmash, he wants to overtake everything his father. I don't mind. His developments are submachine guns for the special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - "Bizon-2", "Bizon-2-01". He is a candidate of technical sciences. Sasha and Misha - Viktor's sons, my grandchildren, live and work in Izhevsk. Sasha - head of department automated systems management at the Spetsgazavtoprom enterprise, and Misha was a manager at Izhmash. There are great-grandchildren - Alexandra, a second-year student of the history department of Izhevsk State University, Sasha's daughter, and a second-class student Daniel, Misha's son.

I have three daughters - Nelly, Elena and Natasha.

Nelly Mikhailovna, my adopted daughter, has a higher education, lives in Moscow. She has children Sasha and Zhenya and grandchildren.

Granddaughter Zhenya lives with her husband in Colombia. I have a great-grandson there, his name is Kamalito Nadhar Vetshev.

Elena Mikhailovna, married Krasnovskaya, graduated from the Izhevsk Mechanical Institute. President of the Kalashnikov Foundation, one of my close aides. She has a son Igor.

Well, Natasha ... "

It is hard and bitter for Mikhail Timofeevich to talk about his untimely deceased daughter. Once he dedicated poetic lines to her:

My daughter Natasha,

my dear child.

Ballerina became

straight out of the diaper.

Friends of Kalashnikov talk about her.

Natasha danced in the famous Udmurt pop ensemble "Zangari". She studied at the Perm Choreographic School, then graduated from the Izhevsk Mechanical Institute. But over time, she had to quit dancing, and she began to work in the patent department of the Izhevsk Mechanical Institute. Despite the small sprout, she had a very strong character, like her father. Swift, big-eyed, perky was. Ridiculously died on November 13, 1983 in a car accident.

Brother Viktor Timofeevich, a simple worker, lived in Nizhny Tagil. He has a daughter, Olga. Victor was also dispossessed and exiled. Lived a hard life.

From book A. Uzhanov "Mikhail Kalashnikov" (Series ZhZL, 2009)

Family of M. T. Kalashnikov:

Father - Timofey Aleksandrovich Kalashnikov (Kalashnik) (1883-1930) - a peasant, was born in the village of Slavgorod, Akhtyrsky district of Kharkov province (now Sumy region). He went with his parents to Kuban (Otradnoye), where he got married. 10 years later, in 1912, he left with his family for Altai under the Stolypin agrarian reform

Mother - Alexandra Frolovna Kalashnikova (1884-1957) - was born in the Oryol province in a large family wealthy peasants.

The first wife - Ekaterina Danilovna Astakhova - a native of the Altai Territory, worked in the railway depot of the Matai station

son - Victor (1942) - in 1956, after the death of his mother, his father takes him from Kazakhstan to his place in Izhevsk

Grandchildren: Mikhail and Alexander

The second wife - Ekaterina Viktorovna Kalashnikova (Moiseeva) (1921-1977) - a design technician by profession.

Adopted daughter: Nelly (1942) - daughter of Ekaterina Viktorovna

Grandchildren / granddaughters: Sasha and Zhenya

Daughter: Elena Krasnovskaya (1948)

Grandson: Igor

Daughter: Natalia (1953-1983).

Kalashnikov Mikhail Timofeevich - designer of small arms automatic weapons; Head of the Design Bureau of the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant, Colonel-Engineer; Deputy Chief Outstanding Designer of PO Izhmash, Colonel-Engineer; Chief Designer - Head of the Small Arms Bureau of Izhmash Concern OJSC, Lieutenant General.

Born on November 10, 1919 in the village of Kurya, now the Kurya District of the Altai Territory, in a large peasant family of Timofei Alexandrovich (1883-1930) and Alexandra Frolovna (1884-1957) Kalashnikovs. In 1936, after graduating from high school in the village of Kurya, he left for Kazakhstan, where he went to work as an apprentice in the railway depot of the Matai station, and then from October 1936 to September 1938 he worked in the city of Alma-Ata (now - Almaty) as a technical secretary the political department of the 3rd railway department of the Turkestan-Siberian railway. Member of the Komsomol in 1936-1947.

In September 1938, M.T. Kalashnikov was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army, served in the Kiev Special Military District, and graduated from the school of tank mechanics. In active military service, he showed himself as a warrior-inventor: he made a special device for the TT pistol to increase the efficiency of shooting from it through the slots in the tank turret, developed an inertial counter to track the number of shots from a tank gun, and created a device for recording the resource of a tank engine. For the last invention in January 1941, the commander of the Kiev Special Military District, General of the Army G.K. Zhukov, gave the Red Army soldier M.T. Kalashnikov a personal watch and ordered to send the army inventor to Moscow - to one of the parts of the Moscow Military District, on the basis of which comparative device testing. By order of the head of the Main Armored Directorate of the Red Army M.T. Kalashnikov, they were sent to one of the Leningrad factories, where the meter, after working out the working drawings, was to be put into series. The prototype device has successfully passed laboratory tests in the factory. A report signed by the chief designer of the plant was sent to the Main Armored Directorate of the Red Army, where it was noted that, in comparison with existing devices, this one is simpler in design, more reliable in operation, lighter in weight and smaller in size. This document was dated June 24, 1941.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War from the end of June to August 1941, the tank commander, senior sergeant M.T. Kalashnikov, took part in battles with the Nazi invaders as part of the 108th Panzer Division of the Bryansk Front. In August 1941, in battles near the city of Bryansk, he was seriously wounded and contused.

From August 1941 to April 1942, M.T. Kalashnikov was undergoing treatment in an evacuation hospital in the city of Yelets, now in the Lipetsk region. There, in the hospital ward, he had the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a submachine gun. Having received a six-month leave for health reasons, I arrived at the Matai station and made a test sample in the workshops of the railway depot. The second sample was made in the Moscow Aviation Institute, evacuated to Alma-Ata, in the workshops of the department of small arms and cannon weapons. In April 1942, M.T. Kalashnikov was sent for further service at the Central Research Range small arms Of the Main Artillery Directorate of the Red Army (according to the registration card of a member of the CPSU - from April 1942 to February 1949, he worked in Moscow as a designer of the invention department of the Ministry Armed Forces USSR).

Kalashnikov with his comrades.

In June 1942, a prototype of a submachine gun was sent for recall to the city of Samarkand (Uzbekistan), where the Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy was at that time in evacuation. And although one of the leading teachers of this academy, the largest scientist in the field of ballistics and small arms, the future twice Hero of Socialist Labor, Major-General of artillery A.A. Blagonravov did not recommend the M.T. Kalashnikov submachine gun for adoption, nevertheless , he praised the senior sergeant's inventive talent.

Kalashnikov assault rifle (model 1947).

In 1944, M.T. Kalashnikov developed a sample of a self-loading carbine, the device of the main units of which served as the basis for creating an assault rifle in 1946. In 1947, the inventor improved his machine gun and won a competitive test. After revision, the machine gun was put into service in 1949 Soviet army under the name "7.62-mm Kalashnikov assault rifle, model 1947" (AK). In 1949, M.T. Kalashnikov was awarded the 1st degree Stalin Prize.

Designer Kalashnikov at work (1949).

In 1949, M.T. Kalashnikov moved to the capital of the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (now the Udmurt Republic), the city of Izhevsk and worked at the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant - from February of the same year to August 1957 as a leading designer, and from August 1957 to August 1967 - as a chief design bureau (KB). Member of the CPSU since June 1953 (candidate since June 1952).

The team of designers headed by M.T. Kalashnikov unified a number of models of automatic small arms on the basis of the AK. The following were adopted for service: a 7.62-mm modernized machine gun (AKM), a 7.62-mm light machine gun (RPK).

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 20, 1958, for the modernization of the machine gun and the creation of a light machine gun, the head of the design bureau of the Izhevsk machine-building plant Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle gold medal.

In the 1960-1970s, on the basis of the AK-47, AKM and RPK, a number of unified models of small arms were adopted for service: AKM, chambered for 5.45 × 39, varieties with folding butts (AKMS and RPKS), 7, 62 mm machine gun (PK, PKS - on the machine), 7.62 mm machine gun for a tank (PKT) and armored personnel carrier (PKB). For the first time in world practice, a series of unified models of small arms was created, identical in principle of operation and a single automation scheme. Small arms automatic weapons, created by M.T. Kalashnikov, are distinguished by their high reliability, efficiency, and ease of use. For the first time in the history of the creation of small arms, he managed to achieve the optimal combination of a number of qualities that would ensure highly effective use and exceptional reliability of the machine in battle, namely: a short locking unit, a suspended bolt, preliminary starting of the sleeve after a shot, eliminating refusal when removing the spent cartridge case, low sensitivity to contamination and the possibility of trouble-free use in any climatic conditions... M.T. Kalashnikov not only created the world's best machine gun, but for the first time developed and introduced into the troops a number of unified models of automatic small arms.

In 1964, M.T. Kalashnikov and his assistants A.D. Kryakushin and V.V. Krupin were awarded the Lenin Prize for the creation of a complex of unified PK, PKT, PKB machine guns.

From August 1967 to April 1975, MT Kalashnikov - Deputy Chief Designer of the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant (from April 1975 - "Production Association" Izhmash ").

In 1969, in the year of his 50th birthday, the designer was awarded the military rank of "Colonel-Engineer", and in 1971, based on the totality of research and development work and inventions, the Academic Council of the Tula Polytechnic Institute awarded him the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences without defense of the thesis.

From April 1975 to May 1979, Colonel-Engineer MT Kalashnikov - Deputy Chief Designer of the Izhmash Production Association.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated January 15, 1976 for outstanding services in the creation new technology Deputy Chief Designer of PO "Izhmash" Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov awarded the Order of Lenin and the second gold medal "Hammer and Sickle".

Since May 1979, Chief Designer - Head of the Design Bureau for Small Arms of the Izhmash Production Association (at the beginning of the 1990s, it was transformed into Izhmash JSC, and later - into Izhmash Concern OJSC, Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant OJSC).

Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov in 1987.

In addition to small arms for the Armed Forces, the Design Bureau under the leadership of M.T. Kalashnikov has developed a large number of weapons for athletes and hunters, which is distinguished not only by its direct purpose and specificationsbut also beauty. Self-loading hunting carbines "Saiga", designed on the basis of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, have gained immense popularity among hunting enthusiasts in our country and abroad. Among them: the smooth-bore model "Saiga", the self-loading carbine "Saiga-410", "Saiga-20S". More than a dozen modifications of carbines are still being produced. By Presidential Decree No. 657 of June 6, 1998, a group of seven designers, including the famous gunsmith MT Kalashnikov, was awarded the RF State Prize in Literature and Art in 1997, and in design - for a collection of sporting and hunting weapons.

Elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 3rd (1950-1954) and 7-10th (1966-1984) convocations.

After the collapse of the USSR, the merits of the legendary gunsmith designer were highly appreciated in Russian Federation... By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 28, 1994 No. 2022, Colonel-engineer M.T. Kalashnikov was awarded the military rank of "Major General", and eight days later, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 5, 1994, No. 2061, for outstanding services in the field of creating an automatic rifle weapons and a significant contribution to the defense of the Fatherland, he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd degree (No. 1). By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 7, 1998 No. 1202, for his outstanding contribution to the defense of the Fatherland, he was awarded the country's highest award - the revived Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called (No. 2).

In 1999, MT Kalashnikov was awarded the military rank of "Lieutenant General".

By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1258 of November 10, 2009, for outstanding services in strengthening the country's defense capability, Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Chief Designer - Head of the Small Arms Bureau of JSC Concern Izhmash, was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation with the presentation of a special distinction - the Gold Star".

The honored veteran, the legendary designer of small arms, who stepped over the 94-year milestone, lived in his hometown of gunsmiths Izhevsk, and continued his fruitful work at Concern Izhmash OJSC Izhevsk Machine Building Plant OJSC.

Awards and titles of M. T. Kalashnikov

Awarded the Russian Orders of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called (7.10.1998, No. 2), "For Services to the Fatherland" 2nd degree (5.11.1994, No. 1), "For Military Merits" (2.11.2004), Soviet 3 Orders of Lenin (06/20/1958, 11/10/1969, 01/16/1976), Orders of the October Revolution (03/25/1974), Patriotic War 1st degree (03/11/1985), Red Banner of Labor (07/01/1957), Friendship of Peoples (08/30/1982 ), The Red Star (08/17/1949), Honorary weapons from the President of the Russian Federation (1997), medals, as well as orders and medals of foreign states, including the Belarusian Order of Honor (11/24/1999), the Kazakh Order of Friendship 1st degree ( 2003), the highest award of Venezuela - the Order of the Star of Carabobo, 1st degree (2006).

Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1964), the 1st degree Stalin Prize (1949), the RF State Prize (1997), and the RF President Prize (2003).

Honored Worker of Industry of the USSR (1989), Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1979), Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences (1993), Honorary Professor of Izhevsk State Technical University (1994), Honorary Member of the Russian Engineering Academy (1994), Honorary Academician of the Engineering Academy of the Udmurt Republic (1995), Honorary Member of the International Academy of Sciences, Industry, Education and Arts of the USA (1996), Academician of the International Academy of Informatization (1997), Honorary Academician of the Academy of Informatization of the Republic of Tatarstan (1997). Awarded the title of "Legendary Man" and the "Golden Pegasus" award from public organization “Russian National Olympus” (2000), a silver statuette of Fortune with a golden sword (2001), awarded the “Symbol of Science” medal (2007). Member of the Writers' Union of Russia. For his literary work, Kalashnikov received a diploma of laureate of the All-Russian literary prize "Stalingrad" (1997).

Honorary Citizen of Izhevsk (1988), Udmurt Republic (1995), Altai Territory (2.09.1997) and the village of Kurya, Altai Territory.

The documents, which testify to the first steps of M.T. Kalashnikov as a designer, were declassified only in 2004. These documents are now kept in the Izhevsk Museum and Exhibition Complex of Small Arms named after M.T. Kalashnikov.

Memory of Kalashnikov

In the homeland of M.T. Kalashnikov - in the village of Kurya - in 1980 a bronze bust was erected to him. The name of the designer is immortalized on the stele to the gunsmiths on the territory of the Degtyarev plant in the city of Kovrov. In early November 2004, a museum and exhibition complex dedicated to the legendary arms designer was opened in Izhevsk. The event was timed to coincide with the 85th anniversary of M.T. Kalashnikov. The central place in the exposition is occupied by a monument to the designer. The assault rifles and machine guns of M.T. Kalashnikov are in service with the armies of more than fifty countries of the world. His machine gun is depicted on the coat of arms and flag of Mozambique, on the coat of arms of Zimbabwe, and in 1984-1997 he was depicted on the coat of arms of Burkina Faso. In Mozambique, in honor of the Soviet machine gun, the boys who were born were given the name "Kalash".

Author of books:

"Notes of a gunsmith designer" (1992);
"From someone else's doorstep to the Spassky Gate" (1997);
“I walked the same road with you” (1999);
Kalashnikov: The Trajectory of Fate (2004);
"In the whirlwind of my life" (2008);
Everything you need is simple (2009).

Kalashnikov Mikhail Timofeevich (born in 1919)

Born November 10, 1919 in the village of Kurya, Altai Territory, in a large peasant family. Father - Kalashnikov Timofey Alexandrovich (1883-1930). Mother - Kalashnikova Alexandra Frolovna (1884-1957). Wife, Kalashnikova Ekaterina Viktorovna (1921-1977) - design technician, performed drawing work for Mikhail Timofeevich. Daughters: Nelly Mikhailovna (born in 1942), Elena Mikhailovna (born in 1948), Natalya Mikhailovna (1953-1983). Son - Viktor Mikhailovich (born in 1942).

Until 1936, Mikhail Kalashnikov studied at school. At the end of the 9th grade, he went to work as the technical secretary of the political department of the 3rd branch of the Turkestan-Siberian railway.
Mikhail's army life began in 1938. His emergency service took place in the Kiev Special Military District. First, he took a course as a tank driver, then he was sent to a tank regiment stationed in the city of Stryi.
And here Mikhail Kalashnikov's creative nature has already manifested itself. In particular, he created a recorder for the number of shots from a tank gun. It was then that he first met G.K. Zhukov. The commander of the Kiev Special Military District presented the young inventor with a personal watch.
Before Kalashnikov, a great creative path opened up. But the Great Patriotic War soon began. And of course he, a young tankman, could not help but be at the front. However, in October 1941, a Nazi shell hit his tank. Mikhail Kalashnikov was seriously wounded and seriously concussed.
But lying in the hospital bed for a long time, doing nothing, was not in his character. Kalashnikov was tormented by one thought: how to help the front? This thought led him to the library, forced him to sit at the drawing table. And as soon as he was given a restorative leave, he immediately left for the Matai station, where he worked for some time before the war. There, with the help of friends, he made his first submachine gun.
Kalashnikov felt that it was necessary to debug something in his weapon, to achieve a higher accuracy of fire. However, when he presented his sample to the outstanding military scientist A.A. Blagonravov, he heard praise from him. A new stage began in the life of Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, who has not yet been recognized as a designer.
Its first samples were never accepted into service. But they enriched him with considerable experience. And this experience, when the victorious 45th year was already underway, instilled confidence in success. Kalashnikov began work on the creation of an automatic weapon chambered for the 1943 model. He did not even imagine that he would be able to solve the problem relatively quickly: the new machine gun passed the first tests.
In 1948 he was sent to Izhevsk. Then the young designer did not even think that he would "settle" in this still little known city, that he would become his dearest. It is from here, after a short time, that the first batches of the machine gun will go to the troops.
And he was attracted by another idea: how to create a self-loading carbine. He worked with unprecedented enthusiasm. I changed a lot along the way. In the end, the Kalashnikov self-loading carbine turned out to be lighter in weight and more reliable in action. In some ways it even surpassed the Simonov version of the same carbine.
During this period, the military tests of the machine gun created by Mikhail Timofeevich were successfully completed. And then the decision was made to take it into service with the Soviet Army. In the history of world small arms, a new era began - the era of automatic weapons. He, Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, was the first to open this era. AK-47 gave him a ticket to the world of weapons and brought fame, which was not known by any designer on the planet. With the advent of such a powerful machine gun in itself, the need for a self-loading carbine has disappeared.
On September 1, 1949, Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov was appointed to the staff of the department of the chief designer of Izhmash. He still works there. First of all, he is engaged in the further development of the AK-47. To this Kalashnikov's brainchild are added a 7.62 mm modernized AKM assault rifle and a modernized AKMS assault rifle with a folding stock.
After switching to 5.45 mm caliber, large family Kalashnikov assault rifles - shortened AKS-74U, AK-74 and AK-74M.
Mikhail Timofeevich is also known as a designer of machine guns. Among its designs - 7.62-mm Kalashnikov RPK light machine guns and - with a folding stock; 5.45mm Kalashnikov RPK-74 and RPKS-74 light machine guns - with a folding stock. In total, more than a hundred samples of military weapons have been created in the Kalashnikov design bureau.
Kalashnikov also has one more hobby - the creation of hunting weapons. His hunting self-loading carbines "Saiga", designed on the basis of an assault rifle, have gained immense popularity among hunting enthusiasts in our country and abroad. Among them - the smooth-bore model "Saiga", the self-loading carbine "Saiga-410", "Saiga-20S". More than a dozen modifications of carbines are still being produced.
M. T. Kalashnikov is a world famous designer. The famous Israeli designer Uzi Gal very accurately stated, once saying to Mikhail Timofeevich: "You are among us the most unsurpassed and authoritative designer."
The popularity of MT Kalashnikov is endless. Once the American philosopher and weapons specialist Edward Clinton Ezel sent a letter with the following address: "USSR. Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov." Just like "grandfather's village". And this message, of course, neatly reached, although there are thousands of Kalashnikovs in our country.
As for the main brainchild of the designer, the Kalashnikov assault rifle, it is recognized as the invention of the century. This assessment was given by the French newspaper "Liberation", which compiled a list of outstanding inventions of the twentieth century - from aspirin to the atomic bomb. According to foreign experts, by the beginning of 1996, from 70 to 100 million machines were manufactured in the world. It is used in 55 countries around the world. He is depicted on the banners and emblems of some countries.
For the creation of the AK-47 assault rifle, Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov was awarded the Stalin (State) Prize of the first degree. Later, the AKM assault rifle and the RGS light machine gun were adopted. For this work, the designer was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. In 1964 he was awarded the Lenin Prize. 34 years later, M.T. Kalashnikov again became a laureate of the State Prize.
In 1976, Mikhail Timofeevich was awarded the second Hammer and Sickle Gold Medal. Among his awards are three Orders of Lenin, "For Services to the Fatherland" II degree, the Order of the October Revolution, the Red Banner of Labor, Friendship of Peoples, Patriotic War I degree, the Red Star, and many medals. M. T. Kalashnikov - Knight of the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called.
Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov - Doctor of Technical Sciences, Honored Worker of Industry of the USSR, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Republic of Udmurtia. He is an honorary member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, the Russian Engineering Academy, a full member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Arts and Arts, the International Academy of Sciences, Industry, Education and Art of the USA, the International Academy of Informatization, the Union of Designers of Russia, and a number of other major scientific institutions; Honorary citizen of the Udmurt Republic, the city of Izhevsk, the village of Kurya, Altai Territory.
MT Kalashnikov published three books of memoirs: "Notes of a Weapon Designer" (1992), "From Another's Threshold to the Spassky Gate" (1997), "I walked the same road with you" (1999). Member of the Writers' Union of Russia.
Mikhail Timofeevich is passionate about classical music. He is a constant participant in the traditional days of music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Loves poetry. While still at school, he was fond of writing poetry. His pre-war poems were published in the newspaper of the Kiev Special Military District "Red Army".

AWARDS AND TITLES OF M.T. KALASHNIKOV

ORDERS:

Order of the Red Star, 1949 Order of the Red Banner of Labor, 1957 Hero of Socialist Labor, Order of Lenin, 1958 Gold Medal "Hammer and Sickle" Order of Lenin, 1969 Order of the October Revolution, 1974 Hero of Socialist Labor, Order Lenin, 1976 Gold medal "Hammer and Sickle" Order of Friendship of Peoples, 1982 Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, 1985 Order of Merit to the Fatherland, 2nd degree, 1994
Medal "For Victory over Germany", 1946 Medal "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45 ", 1967. Medal" For Valiant Labor in Connection with the 100th Anniversary of V.I.Lenin ", 1970. Medal" For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR ", 1970. Breastplate" 25 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War ", 1970. Medal" 30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy ", 1974 Medal" 50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR ", 1974 Medal" 30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War ", 1975. Medal" 60 years Of the Armed Forces of the USSR ", 1978 Medal" 40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 ", 1985 Medal" 70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR ", 1988 Medal of G.K. Zhukov (awarded signed by B.N. Yeltsin) Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow", 1997

HONORARY TITLES:

Laureate of the USSR State Prize, 1949 Lenin Prize Laureate, 1964 Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Ukrainian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1979 Honorary Citizen of the city of Izhevsk, 1988 Honorary Worker of Industry of the USSR, 1989 Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences, 1993 Honorary Professor of Izhevsk State Technical University, 1994 Honorary Member of the Russian Engineering Academy , 1994 Honorary Academician of the Engineering Academy of the UR, 1995 Honorary Citizen of the Udmurt Republic, 1995 Honorary Member of the International Academy of Sciences, Industry, Education and Arts of the USA (California), 1996. Academician of the International Academy of Informatization (MAI), 1997 Honorary Academician of the Academy of Informatization of the Republic of Tatarstan, 1997. In 1965 he was entered in the Honorary Book of Labor Glory and Heroism of the Ukrainian ASSR. In 1971 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences.

Lives and works in Izhevsk.

The automatic weapon of the M.T. Kalashnikov system is widely
widespread in the world. Since the beginning of 1990, taking into account the collapse of the USSR and the SFRY,
samples of Kalashnikov weapons are in service, used
by special groups or produced for export sale in the following
states of the world:

Albania, Azerbaijan, Algeria, Armenia, Angola, Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Botswana, Hungary, Vietnam, Gabon, Ghana,
Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Haiti, Gambia, Guyana,
Honduras, Georgia, Djibouti, Egypt, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
Yemen (north), Yemen (south), Israel, India, Indonesia,
Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kampuchea, Cape / Verde,
Qatar, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, North Korea, Cuba, Kyrgyzstan,
Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Mauritania,
Madagascar, Macedonia, Mali, Maldives, Malta, Morocco,
Mozambique, Moldova, Mongolia, Namibia, Nigeria, Netherlands,
Nicaragua, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Peru,
Poland, Portugal, Russia, Romania, Swaziland, Sao Tome,
Seyche-ly, Slovakia, Slovenia, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Suriname,
Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad And Tobago,
Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Philippines,
Finland, Croatia, Czech Republic, Sri Lanka, Equatorial Guinea,
Estonia, Ethiopia, South Africa, Yugoslavia.

In the village of Kurya, Altai Territory, in a large peasant family. Father - Timofey Alexandrovich and mother - Alexandra Frolovna - are from Kuban peasants.

In 1930, the family of Timofei Kalashnikov, recognized as a fist, was exiled from the Altai Territory to the village of Nizhnyaya Mokhovaya (Tomsk Region).

In 1936, Mikhail, who had finished 9th grade of secondary school by that time, returned to Kurya, where he got a job at a machine-tractor station, and then entered the depot at the Matai station of the Turkestan-Siberian railway (now the territory of Kazakhstan). Some time later he was transferred to Alma-Ata as the technical secretary of the political department of the 3rd branch of the railway.

In 1938, Mikhail Kalashnikov was drafted into the ranks of the Armed Forces. His conscript service began in the Kiev Special Military District. There he showed himself to be a technical expert and was assigned to take a course as a tank driver. After completing his training, Mikhail was sent to a tank regiment stationed in the city of Stryi (now the Lviv region, Ukraine).

Already during his service in the army, Kalashnikov became an inventor and rationalizer. He developed an inertial counter for recording the actual number of shots from a tank gun, made a special device for a TT pistol to increase the efficiency of firing from it through slots in a tank turret, and created a device for recording a tank's service life. In early 1941, he first met with the commander of the Kiev Special Military District Georgy Zhukov, who presented the talented young man with a personal watch.

Kalashnikov began the Great Patriotic War as a tank commander. In October 1941, near Bryansk, during an attack, his company came under artillery fire. Kalashnikov's tank was hit, he himself received a severe wound in the shoulder and a serious concussion. He was evacuated to Trubchevsk (Bryansk region), then to Yelets (Lipetsk region).

In the hospital, Kalashnikov began working on a project for a submachine gun for the needs of the Red Army. Actively using technical literature from the hospital library, by the time he left the hospital, he had created blueprints for a new weapon. Having received a 6-month recovery leave for health reasons before returning to the front, Kalashnikov returned to Kurya, and then to the Matai station, where, with the permission of the head, he made a prototype of a submachine gun in the workshops of the railway depot.

The first of the weapons specialists to evaluate the prototype was the head of the Artillery Academy. Dzerzhinsky, professor, major general Anatoly Blagonravov. He identified design flaws, but also noted the talent of the novice developer and recommended sending Kalashnikov to technical studies. In July 1942, Kalashnikov ended up at the research and testing range of small arms and mortar weapons (NIPSMVO) of the Moscow Military District. There the submachine gun underwent full-scale tests, but due to the high cost of production and individual shortcomings, it did not enter service.

Until 1944, Kalashnikov, in addition to the submachine gun, developed a light machine gun and a self-loading carbine. These samples also did not enter service, but the work on them enriched the designer with considerable experience.

In 1945, Kalashnikov took part in the competition for the development of an assault rifle chambered for the 1943 model. According to the results of competitive tests in 1947, the AK-47 assault rifle was recommended for adoption by the Soviet Army.

In 1948, Kalashnikov was sent to a military plant in the city of Izhevsk to master the sample and manufacture a military batch of machine guns. During this time, he was also working on a self-loading carbine project.

The comprehensive operation of the AK-47 assault rifles in the army was successful, and at the beginning of 1949, a government decree was issued on the adoption of the assault rifle into service and its mass production at the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant. The assault rifle received the official name - "7.62-mm Kalashnikov assault rifle model 1947 (AK)".

In early 1949, Kalashnikov received the Order of the Red Star and the Stalin Prize of the first degree "for the development of a weapon model."

Demobilized with the rank of senior sergeant, Kalashnikov moved to Izhevsk permanently and continued design work at Izhmash. On September 1, 1949, he was admitted to the staff of the Chief Designer Department, where he still works.

Subsequently, the AK-47 was supplemented with a modernized 7.62 mm AKM assault rifle and a modernized AKMS assault rifle with a folding stock. After the transition to 5.45 mm caliber, a large family of Kalashnikov assault rifles AK-74, AKS-74U, AK-74M appeared.

Mikhail Timofeevich is also known as a designer of machine guns. Among his developments: RPK and RPKS light machine guns of 7.62 mm caliber with a folding stock; light machine guns RPK-74 and RPKS-74 of 5.45 mm caliber with a folding stock.

In the early 1960s, a sample of a single machine gun chambered for a 7.62Ch54mm rifle cartridge was put into service.

In total, the Kalashnikov design bureau has created more than a hundred samples of military weapons.

In the early 1970s, Kalashnikov created the Saiga self-loading hunting carbine, designed on the basis of an assault rifle. More than a dozen modifications of carbines are still being produced.

In 1971, the academic council of the Tula Polytechnic Institute awarded Kalashnikov with a scientific degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences on a set of research and development work and inventions without defending a thesis.

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Lieutenant General Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov - twice Hero of Socialist Labor, winner of the Stalin and Lenin prizes.

Among his many awards - three Orders of Lenin, "For Services to the Fatherland" II degree, the Order of the October Revolution, the Red Banner of Labor, Friendship of Peoples, the Patriotic War I degree, the Red Star, many medals. Mikhail Kalashnikov is a Chevalier of the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called.

He is an honorary member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences, and the Russian Engineering Academy; full member - academician of the Petrovskaya Academy of Arts and Arts, the International Academy of Sciences, Industry, Education and Art of the United States, the International Academy of Informatization, the Union of Designers of Russia, the Engineering Academy of the Udmurt Republic; Honorary Professor of the Izhevsk State Technical University, a number of other major scientific institutions.

He was also awarded the title of an honorary citizen of the Udmurt Republic, the city of Izhevsk, the village of Kurya, Altai Territory.

Kalashnikov is a member of the Writers' Union of Russia. Three books of his memoirs have been published: "Notes of a Weapon Designer" (1992), "From Another's Threshold to the Spassky Gate" (1997), "I walked the same road with you" (1999).

While still at school, Mikhail was fond of writing poetry. His pre-war poems were published in the newspaper of the Kiev Special Military District "Red Army".

Among other hobbies of Kalashnikov, the passion for classical music stands out. He is a constant participant in the traditional days of music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

The material was prepared based on information from open sources

May 27, 2019

order of Lenin (USSR, 1969)

Foreign awards

Prizes

1949 - Stalin Prize
1964 - Lenin Prize

Acknowledgments

Diplomas

Other honors

Bibliography of Mikhail Kalashnikov

Kalashnikov M.T. Notes of the designer-gunsmith / Literary record of M.M.Malygin. - Moscow: Military Publishing, 1992 .-- 304, p. - (Military memoirs). - 50,000 copies
Kalashnikov M.T.From someone else's doorstep to the Spassky Gate / ed. literatures. Notes of G.L. Nemchenko; total ed. Nedelin A.V .. - M .: Military Parade, 1997 .-- 496 p.
Kalashnikov MT I walked the same road with you: Memoirs / ed. advice: I. Krasnovsky [and others]. - M .: House "All Russia", 1999. - 239 p.
Kalashnikov M. T., Kalashnikova E. M. Kalashnikov: the trajectory of fate. - M .: House "All Russia", 2004, 2007. - S. 639.
Kalashnikov M. T. In the whirlwind of my life. - 2008.
Kalashnikov M.T.Everything you need is simple. - 2009.
Kalashnikov M.T.More than half a century on Izhmash (Russian) // Military parade: magazine. - 2002. - May-June (vol. 51, No. 03). - S. 36-38.

Memory of Mikhail Kalashnikov

In November 2014, a monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov was erected in the military town of the Big Fortress of the Russian military base in the Republic of Armenia.
In November 2015, a bust of Mikhail Kalashnikov was unveiled in the Victory Park near the Eternal Flame Memorial in Izhevsk.
In December 2015, a monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov was unveiled at the Federal War Memorial Cemetery.
In February 2016, a bust of Mikhail Kalashnikov was unveiled on the campus of the Izhevsk State Technical University (ISTU) named after I. M. T. Kalashnikov.
In September 2017, in Moscow, on the Day of the Armourer, a monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov was unveiled in the park at the intersection of Sadovaya-Karetnaya and Dolgorukovskaya Streets (sculpture by Salavat Shcherbakov).
In May 2019, in the city of Kolomna, near Moscow, a bust monument was unveiled to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Kalashnikov.
On December 14, 2017, the Russian Ministry of Defense established the Mikhail Kalashnikov medal. Awarded to employees of the defense industry, research, industrial and scientific-production organizations for distinctions in the implementation of innovations in the development, production and commissioning of modern weapons and military equipment.

In some African countries - Mozambique, Ethiopia, Somalia - the name Kalash became widespread male name... It is believed that the owner of this name will be lucky and inherit the magical power of the Kalashnikov assault rifle.

The Kalashnikov assault rifle is depicted on the coats of arms of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, East Timor, as well as on the national flag of Mozambique.

Streets in Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo, Uglich, as well as a prospect in Izhevsk are named in honor of Mikhail Timofeevich.

Family of Mikhail Kalashnikov

Grandfather - Karlis Kalashniks (1832-1904) - Latvian peasant. He met Mikhail's grandmother in Liepaja, after which he moved to Slavgorod in 1875. One of the streets in Liepaja is named after him.

Father - Timofey Aleksandrovich Kalashnikov (Kalashnik) (1883-1930) - a peasant, was born in the village of Slavgorod, Akhtyrsky district of Kharkov province (now Sumy region). He left with his parents to Kuban (Otradnoye), where he got married. 10 years later, in 1912, he left with his family for Altai according to the Stolypin agrarian reform.
Mother - Alexandra Frolovna Kalashnikova (1884-1957) - was born in the Oryol province in a large family of wealthy peasants.

The first wife - Ekaterina Danilovna Astakhova - a native of the Altai Territory, worked in the railway depot of the Matai station
Son - Victor (1942-2018) - in 1956, after the death of his mother, his father takes him from Kazakhstan to his place in Izhevsk
Grandchildren: Mikhail and Alexander

Second wife - Ekaterina Viktorovna Kalashnikova (Moiseeva) (1921-1977) - design technician by profession
Daughter Nelly Mikhailovna (1942) - daughter of Ekaterina Viktorovna
Granddaughters: Alexandra and Eugene
Daughter: Elena Kalashnikova (1948) - President of the Interregional Public Fund named after M.T. Kalashnikov (since 2002)
Grandson: Igor Krasnovsky
Daughter: Natalia (1953-1983).

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Kalashnikov Mikhail Timofeevich

Weapon Designer

Lieutenant general

Hero of the Russian Federation

Head of Bureau of OJSC Concern Kalashnikov

Mikhail Kalashnikov was born on November 10, 1919 in the village of Kurya, Altai Territory. The boy grew up in a large peasant family of Timofei Alexandrovich and Alexandra Frolovna Kalashnikov. In 1936, after graduating from high school in the village of Kurya, he left for the Kazakh SSR, where he started working as an apprentice at the railway depot of the Matai station, and then for two years worked in the city of Alma-Ata as a technical secretary of the political department of the third railway department of Turkestan Siberian Railway.

In September 1938, Mikhail Timofeevich was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army, served in the Kiev Special Military District, and graduated from the school of tank mechanics. In active military service, he showed himself as a warrior inventor: he made a special device for the TT pistol to increase the efficiency of firing from it through the slots in the tank turret, developed an inertial counter to record the number of shots from a tank gun, created a device for recording the resource of a tank engine.

For the last invention in January 1941, the commander of the Kiev Special Military District, General of the Army Zhukov, handed the Red Army soldier Kalashnikov a personal watch and ordered to send the army inventor to Moscow, to one of the parts of the Moscow Military District, on the basis of which comparative tests of the device were carried out.

By order of the head of the Main Armored Directorate, Kalashnikov was sent to one of the St. Petersburg factories, where the counter, after working out the working drawings, was to be put into series. The prototype device has successfully passed laboratory tests in the factory. On June 24, 1941, a report was sent to the Main Armored Directorate, signed by the chief designer of the plant, where it was noted that, in comparison with existing devices, this one was simpler in design, more reliable in operation, lighter in weight and smaller in size.

From August 1941 to April 1942 he was undergoing treatment in the evacuation hospital in the city of Yelets in the Lipetsk region. There, in the hospital ward, he had the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a pistol - a machine gun. Having received a six-month leave for health reasons, I arrived at the Matai station and made a test sample in the workshops of the railway depot. The second sample was made in the Moscow Aviation Institute evacuated to Alma-Ata in the workshops of the department of small arms and cannon armament.

The team of designers headed by Kalashnikov unified a number of models of automatic small arms on the basis of the Kalashnikov assault rifle. The following weapons were adopted: 7.62mm modernized machine gun, 7.62mm light machine gun.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 20, 1958, for the modernization of the machine gun and the creation of a light machine gun, the head of the design bureau of the Izhevsk machine-building plant Mikhail Kalashnikov was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle gold medal.

Mikhail Kalashnikov not only created the world's best assault rifle, but for the first time developed and introduced into the troops a number of unified models of automatic small arms. In 1964, the Lenin Prize was awarded for the creation of a complex of machine guns PK, PKT, PKB.

From April 1975 to May 1979, Colonel - engineer Kalashnikov was the deputy chief designer of the Izhmash production association.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 15, 1976, Deputy Chief Designer of Izhmash Production Association Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov was awarded the Order of Lenin and the second gold medal "Hammer and Sickle" for outstanding services in the creation of new technology.

In addition to small arms for the Armed Forces, the Design Bureau under the leadership of Kalashnikov has developed a large number of weapons for athletes and hunters, which are distinguished not only by their direct purpose and technical characteristics, but also by their beauty.

Self-loading hunting carbines "Saiga", designed on the basis of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, have gained immense popularity among hunting enthusiasts. Among them: smooth-bore model "Saiga", self-loading carbine "Saiga-410", "Saiga20S".

By Decree of the President of Russia No. 1258 of November 10, 2009, for outstanding services in strengthening the country's defense capability, Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Chief Designer, Head of the Small Arms Bureau of JSC Concern Izhmash, was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation with the presentation of a special distinction - the Gold Star medal ".

The legendary designer of small arms automatic weapons, lived in his hometown of gunsmiths Izhevsk, and continued his fruitful work at JSC Concern Kalashnikov until last days own life.

Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov died on December 23, 2013 after a serious long illness. He was buried with military honors on December 27, 2013 at the Central Alley of the Pantheon of Heroes of the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery in the Mytishchi District of the Moscow Region.

In the city of Kolomna, Moscow region May 27, 2019 the opening of a monument-bust to the designer of small arms Mikhail Kalashnikov, timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the outstanding gunsmith. The monument was erected in Kolomna, since it was here that the designer worked on the prototype of his legendary assault rifle. In addition, the activities of Kalashnikov are closely related to the Central Scientific Research Range of Small Arms and Mortars, which is located in a city near Moscow.

Awards and Recognition of Mikhail Kalashnikov

Twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1958, 1976)

Hero of the Russian Federation (2009)

medal "Gold Star" of the Hero of the Russian Federation (RF, 10.11.2009, medal No. 955)

medal "Hammer and Sickle" Hero of Socialist Labor (USSR, 20.06.1958, medal No. 8596)

medal "Hammer and Sickle" Hero of Socialist Labor (USSR, 01/15/1976, medal No. 117)

order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called - for his outstanding contribution to the defense of the Fatherland (RF, 07.10.1998)

order of Lenin (USSR, 20.06.1958, No. 315913)

order of Lenin (USSR, 1969)

order of Lenin (USSR, 01/15/1976, No. 423695)

order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree - for outstanding services in the field of creating automatic small arms and a significant contribution to the defense of the Fatherland (RF, 05.11.1994)

order of the October Revolution (USSR, 1974)

order "For Military Merit" - for a great personal contribution to the development of new types of weapons and strengthening the country's defense (RF, 02.11.2004)

order of the Patriotic War, I degree (USSR, 04/06/1985)

order of the Red Banner of Labor (USSR, 1957)

order of Friendship of Peoples (USSR, 08/30/1982)

order of the Red Star (USSR, 1949)

medal "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (USSR, 1970)

Medal "For distinction in guarding the state border of the USSR" (USSR, 07/13/1950)

medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." (USSR, 1946)

medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." (USSR, 1945)

medal "Veteran of Labor" (USSR, 01/31/1980)

medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." (USSR, 1965)

jubilee medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." (USSR, 25.04.1975)

jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." (USSR, 12.04.1985)

jubilee medal "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." (RF, 09.05.1994)

zhukov medal (RF, 07.07.1993)

jubilee medal "60 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." (RF, 2005)

jubilee medal "65 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." (RF, 2010)

medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (USSR, 09/20/1947)

jubilee medal "30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy" (USSR, 02.22.1948)

jubilee medal "40 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (USSR, 12/18/1957)

jubilee medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (USSR, 26.12.1967)

jubilee medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (USSR, 01/28/1978)

jubilee medal "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (USSR, 01.24.1988)

Foreign awards

order of Honor (Belarus, 1999) - for outstanding services in the development of unique samples of small arms, great personal contribution to strengthening the defense potential of the Union of Belarus and Russia and in connection with the 80th anniversary

order of the Star of Carabobo (Venezuela, 2006)

order "Dostyk" I degree (Kazakhstan, 2003)

Confessional, regional and community awards

order of the Holy Blessed Grand Duke Demetrius Donskoy, II degree (Russian Orthodox Church, 2007)

order of Merit for the Altai Territory, I degree (Altai Territory, 2009)

order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker I degree (Republic of Udmurtia, 2009) [

"Gold Medal named after V. G. Shukhov" (RosSNIO, 1990s)

medal "Symbol of Science" (All-Russian NP "World of Science", 2007)

medal "For Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Collection Business in Russia" (Russian LLC ARS "MARS", 2009)

Prizes

1949 - Stalin Prize
1964 - Lenin Prize
1997 - State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of design
2003 - Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of education
2009 - Laureate of the All-Russian Literary Prize named after A.V. Suvorov

Acknowledgments

1997 - Commendation of the President of the Russian Federation
1999 - Commendation of the President of the Russian Federation
2002 - Commendation of the President of the Russian Federation
2007 - Commendation of the President of the Russian Federation

Diplomas

1997 - Certificate of honor of the Government of the Russian Federation
1999 - Certificate of honor of the Government of the Russian Federation
2004 - "Honorary Engineer of Kazakhstan" (Kazakhstan)

Other honors

1980 - in the homeland of Kalashnikov in the village of Kurya, Altai Territory, a bronze bust was installed in his lifetime.
1994 - the projected avenue in Izhevsk was named after the designer.
1997 - Mikhail Kalashnikov was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the Altai Territory".
1997 - the award of the Ministry of Economy of Russia was established - the Sign “Designer of small arms M.T. Kalashnikov "
1999 - The M.T. Kalashnikov Prize was established by the Union of Scientific and Engineering Organizations and the Government of Udmurtia
1999 - Alrosa diamond company awarded the 50.74 carat gemstone diamond mined on December 29, 1995 with the name Designer Mikhail Kalashnikov (size 14.5x15.0x15.5 mm, Stones Black quality)
2002 - Votkinsk Cadet School was named after M.T. Kalashnikov
2002 - an award was established in his name at the Izhevsk Weaponry School
2004 - opened in Izhevsk Government agency culture “Museum of M.T. Kalashnikov "
2004 - for the 85th anniversary of the designer, Voronezh craftsmen cast a 200-kilogram bell. Today it is installed on the belfry of the St. Michael's Cathedral in Izhevsk.
2008 - the departmental insignia of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia “Medal named after the designer of small arms MT Kalashnikov” was established.
2009 - Mikhail Kalashnikov received the highest award of the republic from President Hugo Chavez - a copy of the famous sword of Simon Bolivar, which is a relic of Venezuela and the presentation of the copy is equal to the country's highest award.
The name of Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov was awarded to the audience at the military department of the Mining Institute in St. Petersburg.
2012 - Izhevsk State technical university awarded the name of M.T. Kalashnikov.
2013 - in honor of the day of the gunsmith, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented Kalashnikov with a presidential watch.
2013 - at home, in the village of Kurya, Altai Territory, a memorial museum of M.T. Kalashnikov.
2014 - the departmental insignia of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation - the Mikhail Kalashnikov medal - was established.
2016 - School No. 7 named after Hero of the Russian Federation M.T. Kalashnikov.
2017 - a monument to Kalashnikov was opened in Moscow.