Kalashnikov
# Kalashnikov

Kalashnikov may refer to:

## Weapons

* Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian military engineer and small arms designer
* Kalashnikov rifle, a series of automatic rifles based on the original design of Mikhail Kalashnikov
   * AK-47
   * AK-74
* Kalashnikov Concern, Russian manufacturer of the rifles and other weapons
* Kalashnikov USA, Israeli owned United States manufacturer and distributor of Kalashnikov style rifles and other weapons

## Creative works

* The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov, poem about Russian fist fighting by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1837
   * The Merchant Kalashnikov, opera by Anton Rubinstein, based on Lermontov's poem
   * Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov (film), a 1909 Russian film by Vasily Goncharov, based on Lermontov's poem
* Kalasnjikov, a song from the soundtrack to Emir Kusturica's film Underground
* Kalashnikov, a 2020 Russian biographical film about Mikhail Kalashnikov.

## Other uses

* Kalashnikov (surname), including a list of people with the name
* Kalashnikov culture, a tradition of weapon ownership in Pakistan
* Kalashnikov Variation, a form of the Sicilian Defense in chess
