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AK stands for Автомат Калашникова, pronounced "avtomat kalashnikova". It means "Kalashnikov's Automatic [rifle]".

The rifle is named after it's inventor, Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov. 47 is the index appended by Western classificators for the year in which the rifle was put into service.

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