Kalashnikov

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A Kalashnikov rifle is any one of a series of automatic rifles (i.e., the AK-47, AK-74, etc.) based on the original design of Mikhail Kalashnikov.

Kalashnikov may also refer to:

Companies

• Kalashnikov Concern

People

• Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919−2013), Russian small arms designer, designer of the AK-47 assault rifle
• Maxim Kalashnikov (born 1966), Russian writer and political activist
• Oleg Kalashnikov (1962−2015), Ukrainian politician, murdered in 2015
• Victor Kalashnikov (born 1942), Russian small arms designer, son of Mikhail Kalashnikov
• Viktor Kalashnikov, Russian journalist and ex-KGB officer
• Oksana Kalashnikova, a professional Georgian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit
• Marina Kalashnikova, a Russian historian and freelance journalist
• Nicholas Kalashnikoff, a Russian writer whose books include Jumper, Toyon, Yakub and The Defender

Creative works

• The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov, poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1837
  • The Merchant Kalashnikov, opera by Anton Rubinstein, based on Lermontov's poem
  • Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov (film), a 1909 Russian film by Vasily Goncharov, based on Lermontov's poem
• Kalasnjikov a song from the soundtrack to Emir Kusturica's film Underground

Others

• Kalashnikov (Danish band), Danish punk band of the 1980s
• Kalashnikov (band), Italian punk band of the 1990s onward
• The Neo-Kalashnikovs, New Zealand alternative rock band of the 2010s.
• The Kalashnikov Variation, a chess variation
• Kalashnikov vodka, a brand after Mikhail Kalashnikov, launched in 2004
• Kalashnikov (drink), a type of cocktail

See also

• Kalashnik (disambiguation)