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Biography
Nationality
Soviet Union
Children
4
Burial Place
Federal Military Memorial Cemetery
Awards(9)
Spouse(2)
Yekaterina KalashnikovaJekaterina Wiktorowna Kalaschnikowa
Education(1)
Voroniha village secondary school
Mikhail Kalashnikov (* 10. November 1919 in Kurya; † 23. December 2013 in Izhevsk) was a soviet and Russian small arms designer. He was 94 years old. He was married to Jekaterina Wiktorowna Kalaschnikowa. He had at least 1 child (1 son). He studied at Voroniha village secondary school. His faith was Eastern Orthodox Church. He received 9 awards, including State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, Order of Lenin. His cause of death was pulmonary embolism. He was buried at Federal Military Memorial Cemetery.
Life Events
13 Events1919
Born in Kurya, Altai Krai
1933
Voroniha village secondary school
until 1934
1949
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree
1949
Order of the Red Star
1957
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
1958
Order of Lenin
1969
Order of Lenin
1974
Order of the October Revolution
1982
Order of Friendship of Peoples
1994
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
1998
Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called
1999
Order of Honor
2013