Kalashnikov

Kalashnikov is commonly used to refer to a type of rifle, but it and similar words also have other meanings:

Rifles

• AK-47, or another rifle in that series
• Saiga semi-automatic rifle

People

• Mikhail Kalashnikov (born 1919), Russian small arms designer, notable for making the design of the AK-47 assault rifle
• Maxim Kalashnikov (born 1966), Russian writer and political activist
• Viktor Kalashnikov, Russian journalist and ex-KGB officer
• Oksana Kalashnikova, a professional Georgian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit
• Marina Kalashnikova, a Russian historian and freelance journalist
• Nicholas Kalashnikoff, a Russian writer. Books include Jumper, Toyon, Yakub, The Defender

Creative works

• The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov, poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1837
  • 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 (Danish band), Danish punk band of the 1980s
• Kalashnikov (band), Italian punk band of the 1990s onward
• The Kalashnikov Variation, a chess variation
• Kalashnikov vodka, a brand after Mikhail Kalashnikov, launched in 2004[1]
• Kalashnikov (drink), a type of cocktail

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 traditional Slavic bread called kalach", i.e., "kalach-maker's son".

See also

• Kalashnik (disambiguation)