Kalashnikov

The Russian arms constructor and Lieutenant General Mikhail Kalashnikov was born on 10 November 1919 and worked as a technician even before his military career. In 1947, after the war, Mikhail Kalashnikov presented his assault rifle, the AK-47, to the Red Army and was able to convince the decision-makers of the merits of his design. Just two years later, the now world-famous AK-47 was officially put into service as the '7.62 mm Awtomat Kalasshnikova obraztsa 1947'. Mikhail Kalashnikov himself visited the Boker Manufactory in Solingen in 2002 to present the Boker Kalashnikov knife series to the public.