![]() ![]() He became a folk hero in his native land and a celebrity abroad. Kalashnikov began life as a sickly child in a peasant family and would have seemed an unlikely candidate for the international fame he achieved. Kalashnikov had been hospitalized for the past month with unspecified health problems. Viktor Chulkov, a spokesman for the republic’s president, confirmed the death to news sources but did not give a cause. He lived in Izhevsk, the capital of the Russian republic of Udmurtia. Mikhail Kalashnikov, the former Red Army sergeant behind one of the world’s most omnipresent weapons - the AK-47 and its variants and copies, used by national armies, terrorists, drug gangs, bank robbers, revolutionaries and jihadists - died Dec. ![]()
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