MOSCOW -- The creator of the popular AK-47 assault rifle that bears his name, Mikhail Kalashnikov, has marked his 90th birthday, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. Kalashnikov's AK-47 rifle became ...

AK-47 creator Mikhail Kalashnikov, in a letter to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, before his death on Dec. 23 at age 94. He was quoted by Reuters. You're part of the solution. Thank you for ...

The inventor of the AK-47 said in the months before his death that he wrestled with guilt over the killing machine his creation had become and confessed he felt partially responsible for the lives los ...

He was 94. The creator of the legendary AK-47, which became widely known as the Kalashnikov, was hospitalized a month ago with stomach bleeding for which he was operated on, the ITAR-TASS news ...

Learn more. 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 ...