Biography of Kalashnikov Mikhail Timofeevich

Biography Kalashnikov Michael Timofeevich in many ways personifies the characteristic image of the Soviet dream. His whole life path represented the road of a man who came from a poor peasant family, but managed to create a great name for himself throughout the world at the cost of his own labor and talent.

Childhood and youth

Biography Kalashnikov Michael Timofeevich begins in a small village in Altai Territory. Here he was born on November 10, 1919, being the seventeenth child in a peasant family. Hardly Misha was ten years old, the family was dekulakized and was exiled to the Tomsk region. Here the boy went to school. Already from the school bench Misha was fascinated by technology, geometry, physics. When he was a teenager, he first became acquainted with a weapon when he was curious about an American pistol called "Browning"

Army service and the war years

After leaving school, the young man worked for some time in the depot of the railway, and when he turned nineteen years old (this happened in 1938), he was drafted into the ranks of the army. There he passed the training course, having received the title and specialty of the driver-mechanic of tanks. By the way, as any biography of Mikhail Kalashnikov attests, it is during this period that he begins to show unusual design skills. For example, in the army he invented an inertial counter, which counted the number of shots of a tank gun. His very efforts were improved very popular then the TT pistol. By chance, the young officer was one of those soldiers who were destined to serve in the very beginning of the German invasion. Kalashnikov Mikhail Timofeevich (the date of death of many of these guys fell on the first days and months of the war, since they were the first to hold Blitzkrieg in the most difficult conditions) was a member of the tank division at the beginning of the war . But during the defense of Bryansk in the autumn he received severe wounds and was bruised. And yet, while in the hospital, he found ways to help liberate the country. At this time, a new design of a submachine gun was conceived and implemented. However, the sample never went into service with the troops, although it was manufactured. Since 1942, Mikhail served at the Central Training Ground for Small Arms, which was subordinated to the Main Artillery Department. Actually, in 1944 a self-loading carbine was developed here, which later will form the basis of a well-known automaton in the whole world.

Postwar biography of Kalashnikov Mikhail Timofeevich

The first version of the machine known today appeared in 1947. And immediately he becomes the best in field competitive tests among similar projects. The design was finalized by 1949 and entered service. Very soon his offspring acquired a crazy popularity on all continents, becoming a symbol of the struggle. Kalashnikov Mikhail Timofeevich, whose photo was now familiar to everyone in the USSR, was awarded the Stalin Prize. The inventor continued to improve and optimize small arms. In particular, the machine itself was repeatedly subjected to modernization. And his creator and later not once awarded high awards.