Kalashnikov
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Kalashnikov
C20: named after Mikhail Kalashnikov (born 1919), its designer
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Moran's president, Vyacheslav Kalashnikov, is a retired FSB lieutenant colonel, according to the Warsaw Institute, a Polish think tank.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
The Kalashnikov assault rifle is the standard-issue weapon for all military and law-enforcement branches in Iran.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
Iryna Terekh, the company’s 33-year-old technical director, compares their reliability to that of the Kalashnikov, a trusty rifle lauded for its ruggedness and simplicity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
Borisov is already well-known in Russia, having won a Golden Eagle award for the 2020 film “AK-47,” in which he played Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the well-known assault rifle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
We’d been praying for someone to stand up to Fazlullah and his men with their black turbans and Kalashnikov rifles.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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