FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1997 file photo Mikhail Kalashnikov shows a model of his world-famous AK-47 assault rifle at home in the Ural Mountain city of Izhevsk, 1000 km (625 miles) east of ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian designer of the AK-47 assault rifle which has killed more people than any other firearm in the world, died on Monday aged 94, officials said.

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Soviet inventor and namesake of the world’s most popular gun, the AK-47, died Monday. He was 94. Born into a peasant family in Siberia, Kalashnikov was at one point a railroad ...

Police officer Tatiana Osetrova congratulates Mikhail Kalashnikov, the creator of the world's most popular assault rifle. November 23 marked the 55th anniversary of the release of the first ...

MOSCOW — Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, reportedly wrote a regretful letter several months before his death asking the head of the Russian Orthodox Church if he was to ...

MOSCOW – Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, reportedly wrote a regretful letter several months before his death to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church asking if he was ...

Military personnel take part in the funeral of Mikhail Kalashnikov, chief designer of Izhmash Concern, a Russian firearms producer, in Mytischi outside Moscow, December 27, 2013. Russia buries assault ...

MOSCOW — Workers on Friday cut out part of a new monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the Soviet Union's legendary AK-47 assault rifle, after eagle-eyed Russians noticed that it mistakenly ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian designer of the AK-47 assault rifle which has killed more people than any other firearm in the world, died on Monday aged 94, officials said.

MOSCOW — Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world’s most popular firearm, died Monday at the age of 94. Kalashnikov once ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the former Red Army sergeant behind one of the world’s most omnipresent weapons — the AK-47 and its variants and copies, used by national armies, terrorists, drug gangs, bank ...