Mikhail Kalashnikov [SEP] place of death
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From 1949, Mikhail Kalashnikov lived and worked in Izhevsk, Udmurtia. He held a degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences (1971) and was a member of 16 academies.
Over the course of his career, he evolved the basic design into a weapons family. The AKM (), first brought into service in 1959, was lighter and cheaper to manufacture owing to the use of a stamped steel receiver (in place of the AK-47's milled steel receiver) and contained detail improvements such as a re-
The Merchant Kalashnikov
The Merchant Kalashnikov (, "Kupets Kalashnikov") is a three-act opera by Anton Rubinstein, with a libretto by Nikolai Kulikov. It is based on "The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov" by Mikhail Lermontov.
Background.
The opera was written between 1877 and 1879, and was first performed at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg on .
Written about the same time as the composer's Fifth Symphony, it has been seen as an attempt by Rubinstein to place himself as a