Kalashnikov

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'Kalashnikov' is commonly used to refer to a type of rifle:

Rifles

• AK-47, or another rifle in that series
• AK-74

People

• Mikhail Kalashnikov (born 1919), Russian small arms designer
• Maxim Kalashnikov (born 1966), pen name of a Russian writer and political activist

Creative works

• The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov, poem by Mikhail Lermontov
  • 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

Others

• Kalashnikov (band), Italian punk band
• The Kalashnikov Variation, a chess variation
• Kalashnikov vodka, a brand after Mikhail Kalashnikov, launched in 2004^[1][1]

Etymology

It represents Russian Калашников, a sandhi alteration of earlier Калачников, which literally means "belonging to (usually "son of" or "place of") a man who made a type of Russian fancy bread called kalach", i.e., "kalach-maker's son".

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