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Plasma screen by the right features list of countries Mikhail Kalashnikov has ever visited, and respective visit dates.
Kalashnikov was granted exit permit only by early 1990s - prior to that time he'd been abroad only once, back in 1978 he went to Bulgaria for holidays - incognito, nobody knew he's the gun designer.
Actually, for a long time the West was under impression what Kalashnikov as a person does not exist, it's just what the assault rifle was named after the design bureau "Kalashnikov".
The B&W photo featuring young Mikhail Kalashnikov with his spouse Ekaterina, his three daughters (Nelly, Natasha and Elena), his mother Aleksandra and stepfather Efrem (his father died in Siberian exile).
Another one - Mikhail Kalashnikov (on the left) with his son Victor. Down below is the group photo of Kalashnikov family reunion - the rare event by itself. You can see there his son , his daughters, his grandchildren and even great-grandsons - here, this coal-black hair kid is Kalashnikov's great-grandson born by his granddaughter residing in Columbia.
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