Kalashnik ( uk, Калашник) is a

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

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, meaning "maker of kalaches". A man who made kalaches was called a ''калачник'' (kalachnik), which sometimes by

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effect became ''калашник'' (kalashnik), and such a man's descendants thus got the surname Калачник (Kalachnik) or Калашник (Kalashnik). In Russian language the Ukrainian variant morphed into Калашников ( Kalashnikov) (with the suffix ''-ов'' meaning "belonging to", "son of"). Its English-spelling derivations could include Kalashnik, Kalachnik, Kalashnyk, Kalachnyk, Kalačnik, Kalašnik, Kalasnik or Kolashnik, Kolachnik, Kolashnyk, Kolachnyk, Kolačnik, Kolašnik, Kolasnik. There are close to 12,000 people in Ukraine with the last name of Kalashnik, geographically concentrated mostly in Central and Eastern parts of Ukraine.РІДНІ – Map of Distribution of surnames in Ukraine
It may refer to the following individuals: * Aleksei Kalashnik (born 1983), Russian professional football player of Ukrainian descent. * Anna Kalashnyk (born 1992), Ukrainian artistic gymnast * (1847–1909), traditional Ukrainian artisan, potter. * Sergey Kalashnik (born 1978), Russian politician. * (1948–2010), Ukrainian architect, artist, known for creating a general plan for the development of the city of

Ternopil Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Ternopi ...

between 1982 and 2002. * (1936–2022), Ukrainian linguist, professor and academic. * (1927–1967), Ukrainian painter.

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