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Kalashnikov (surname)
Kalashnikov (russian: Калашников) is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919−2013), Russian small arms designer, designer of the AK-47 assault rifle * Ilya Kalashnikov (born 1982), Russian footballer * Marina Kalashnikova, Russian historian and freelance journalist * Maxim Kalashnikov (born 1966), Russian writer and political activist * Nicholas Kalashnikoff, Russian writer whose books include ''Jumper'', ''Toyon'', ''Yakub'' and ''The Defender'' * Nikolay Kalashnikov (born 1940), Russian Olympic water polo player *Oksana Kalashnikova, Georgian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit *Oleg Kalashnikov (1962−2015), Ukrainian politician, murdered in 2015 *Victor Kalashnikov (1942-2018), Russian small arms designer, son of Mikhail Kalashnikov * Viktor Kalashnikov, Russian journalist and ex-KGB officer * Vladimir Kalashnikov (born 1953), Russian footballer and coach * Vyacheslav Kalashnikov (born 1985), Russian footballer *Ale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov ( rus, Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников, p=kɐˈlaʂnʲɪkəf; 10 November 1919 – 23 December 2013) was a Soviet and Russian lieutenant general, inventor, military engineer, writer, and small arms designer. He is most famous for developing the AK-47 assault rifle and its improvements, the AKM and AK-74, as well as the PK machine gun and RPK light machine gun. Kalashnikov was, according to himself, a self-taught tinkerer who combined innate mechanical skills with the study of weaponry to design arms that achieved battlefield ubiquity. Even though Kalashnikov felt sorrow at the weapons' uncontrolled distribution, he took pride in his inventions and in their reputation for reliability, emphasizing that his rifle is "a weapon of defense" and "not a weapon for offense". Early life Kalashnikov was born in the village of Kurya, in present-day Altai Krai, Russia, as the seventeenth child of the 19 children of Aleksandra F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Kalashnikov
Ilya Yevgenyevich Kalashnikov (russian: Илья Евгеньевич Калашников; born 10 July 1982) is a Russian professional football manager and a former player. He works as a fitness coach for Alania Vladikavkaz. Club career He made his debut in the Russian Premier League for FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don on 28 September 2002 in a game against FC Saturn Ramenskoye FC Saturn Ramenskoye (russian: Фк Сатурн Ра́менское) is a Russian football club, based in the town of Ramenskoye in Moscow Oblast. It is also sometimes referred to as FC Saturn Moscow Region (russian: Фк Сатурн Моск .... He played in 5 RPL seasons for Rostov. Honours * Russian Cup finalist: 2003. References 1982 births People from Petrozavodsk Living people Russian footballers Association football midfielders FC Rostov players FC SKA Rostov-on-Don players Russian Premier League players FC Volgar Astrakhan players FC Salyut Belgorod players FC Vityaz Podolsk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Kalashnikova
Marina Kalashnikova (died 3 August 2013) was a Russian historian and freelance journalist. In 2010 she and her ex-KGB agent husband Viktor Kalashnikov were treated in hospital in Germany for mercury poisoning in what they have said was an attempt on their life by Russia's Federal Security Service (Russia), FSB, the successor to the KGB. The case has been compared to the alleged poisoning and murder of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko. She died of cancer in Moscow in 2013. Personal life She was married to Viktor Kalashnikov, a former KGB colonel and journalist. Activities Kalashnikova and her husband had been publishing articles critical of the Government of Russia, Russian Government since the 1990s. They left Russia and have lived in various countries, such as the Ukraine, Poland, Estonia and now Germany. They claim to have been warned to cease their activities at various points in the 1990s and 2000s by KGB agents. Views Kalashnikova considers Russia to be ruled in an anti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxim Kalashnikov
Vladimir Alexandrovich Kucherenko (russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Кучере́нко; born December 21, 1966), better known by the pen name Maxim Kalashnikov (Макси́м Кала́шников), is a Russian writer, publicist, and political activist. His writings focus on praising the Soviet Union and its political and economic system from a Russian nationalist perspective, criticizing the Russian government, and discussing the perceived NATO (particularly American) threat to Russia and the likelihood that this antagonism will result in a nuclear war between Russia and NATO. Ideology and criticism Maxim Kalashnikov is a Russian nationalistic agitator. As an expert in Russian history, economics, and military, he criticizes modern Russia and praises the Soviet system, or more precisely what it was under Joseph Stalin and what it could have become without Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev. He is an advocate of "a federated Russian Empire" consist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Nicholas Kalashnikoff (May 17, 1888 – August 17, 1961) was a Siberian-American author who wrote in the 1930s to 1950s. Before moving to the United States in 1924, Kalashnikoff participated in the 1905 Russian Revolution and was a political exile during the rest of the 1900s. With the military, Kalashnikoff served as a captain during World War I and a general in the Russian Civil War. After arriving in the United States, Kalashnikoff published his 1939 autobiography ''They That Take the Sword'' and received two fellowships from MacDowell by 1941. Following his expansion into children's books in 1944, Kalashnikoff was an author until the early 1950s. He used his past to create ''Jumper: The Life of a Siberian Horse'' and ''My Friend Yakub''. In fictional works, Kalashnikoff wrote about a mythical legend from the Yakut with ''Toyon: A Dog of the North and His People''. His book about a fictional Lamut shepherd, ''The Defenders'', received a Newbery Honor in 1952. Early life and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Defender (Kalashnikoff Novel)
'' The Defender '' is a children's novel by Nicholas Kalashnikoff. Set deep within the mountains of Siberia, the novel is about an ostracized shepherd who defends the mountain rams from hunters. The novel, illustrated by Claire Louden and George Louden, was first published in 1951 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1952. Plot The story is about a Lamut (Evens) named Turgen whose family was killed by an illness which left him alone to his practice of medicine in his Yurt A yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger ( Mongolian) is a portable, round tent covered and insulated with skins or felt and traditionally used as a dwelling by several distinct nomadic groups in the steppes and mountains of Central Asia. .... He then out of his loneliness befriends a group of rams near his yurt this cause the townspeople to look at him and start strange rumors that it is impossible for a man to befriend animals so he must be a sorcerer and shunned because of it. While on coming back fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Kalashnikov
Nikolay Fyodorovich Kalashnikov (russian: Николай Фёдорович Калашников, born October 11, 1940) is a Russian water polo player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics. In 1964 he was a member of the Soviet team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic water polo tournament. He played all six matches and scored two goals. See also * List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men) Men's water polo has been part of the Summer Olympics program since 1900. Hungary men's national water polo team has won sixteen Olympic medals, becoming the most successful country in men's tournament. There are fifty-nine male athletes who have ... External links * 1940 births Living people Russian male water polo players Soviet male water polo players Olympic water polo players of the Soviet Union Water polo players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics {{Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oksana Kalashnikova
Oksana Kalashnikova ( ka, ოქსანა კალაშნიკოვა, tr, ; born 5 September 1990) is a Georgian professional tennis player. Kalashnikova has won five WTA Tour doubles titles, three WTA Challenger doubles titles as well as five singles and 25 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 5 July 2010, she reached her career-high singles ranking of No. 156. On 13 June 2016, she peaked at No. 43 in the WTA doubles rankings. Playing for Georgia Fed Cup team since 2007, Kalashnikova has a win–loss record of 20–16 (as of December 2022). Tennis career 2012 In 2012, Kalashnikova entered the ITF tournament in Astana, where she won the doubles event with Marta Sirotkina against twin sisters Lyudmyla and Nadiia Kichenok. In November, she and Nina Bratchikova won the doubles title at the Royal Indian Open. 2013 Kalashnikova won her first WTA doubles title at the Baku Cup, partnering Irina Buryachok against Eleni Daniilidou and Aleksandra Kr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Kalashnikov
Oleg Kalashnikov ( uk, Оле́г Іва́нович Кала́шніков; 6 November 1962 – 15 April 2015) was a Ukrainian politician, born in Rivne, Ukrainian SSR. He was a member of the Party of Regions, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of V convocation. On 15 April 2015 he was shot to death at his home in Kyiv. On 16 April Ukrainian journalist Oles Buzina was shot to death in Kyiv as well. A Ukrainian nationalist group calling itself Ukrainian Insurgent Army allegedly claimed responsibility for these and other murders in an email containing "grammatical mistakes not typical for a native Ukrainian speaker". The authenticity of the claim was questioned by the Ukrainian government as well as the very existence of the named group. References External links Personal websiteГроші. Калашніков. До Києва підтягуються антимайданівці* Илья АзарИнтервью с организатором митинга против Юлии Ти ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Kalashnikov
Victor Mikhailovich Kalashnikov (russian: Ви́ктор Миха́йлович Кала́шников; 16 July 1942 – 27 March 2018) was a Russian small arms designer known for developing the PP-19 Bizon machine pistols. Early life and education Kalashnikov was born 16 July 1942 in Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, the son of small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov and Ekaterina Viktorovna Kalashnikova. Victor graduated in 1966 from a mechanical institute in Izhevsk in the Soviet Union. Career Kalashnikov began his weapon designing career in 1966 by conducting a series of tests of the AK-47 and summarizing the factors that affect its stability, durability, and reliability. He was then involved in the development of self-loading hunting rifles. He designed a number of parts and components and participated in developing self-loading hunting rifles and Kalashnikov machine guns. He led a group which designed the Bizon and Vityaz-SN machine pistols. Personal life Kalashnikov had two s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Kalashnikov
Viktor Kalashnikov (russian: Виктор Калашников) is a Russian freelance journalist and a former KGB colonel. In the autumn of 2010, he and his wife Marina Kalashnikova were treated in hospital in Germany for mercury poisoning in what they said had been an attempt on their lives by Russia's Federal Security Service (Russia), FSB, the successor to the KGB. He is a distant relative of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47. Personal life He was married to Marina Kalashnikova, a former historian and journalist. Activities Kalashnikov and his wife have been publishing articles critical of the Kremlin since the 1990s. They left Russia and have lived in various countries, such as Ukraine, Poland, Estonia and now Germany. They claim to have been warned to cease their activities at various points in the 1990s and 2000s by KGB agents. Poisoning and investigation In November 2010, it was reported [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Kalashnikov
Vladimir Dmitriyevich Kalashnikov (russian: Владимир Дмитриевич Калашников; born 17 December 1953) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. Currently, he works as an assistant coach and a director with FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast FC Ural Yekaterinburg (russian: ФК Урал) is a Russian association football club based in Yekaterinburg. They play in the Russian Premier League. History The club was founded in 1930 and was known as Avangard (1930–1948, 1953–1957), Ze .... External links *Career profile at Footballfacts 1953 births Living people Soviet footballers FC Ural Yekaterinburg players Russian football managers FC Ural Yekaterinburg managers Russian Premier League managers Association football forwards Association football midfielders FC Uralets Nizhny Tagil players {{Russia-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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