- Creator of the AK-47 rifle.
- In 2013, in honor of the gunsmith's day, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented Kalashnikov with a presidential watch.
- In 1999 the Alrosa diamond company, mined December 29, 1995, jewelry diamond weighing 50.74 carats, was given the name "Designer Mikhail Kalashnikov" (size 14.5x15.0x15.5 mm, quality Stones Black).
- He is an academician of 16 different Russian and foreign academies.
- Due to frequent visits to the shooting range and firing range, Mikhail Kalashnikov got a hearing impairment, which was not subsequently restored even with the help of modern medicine.
- He was a seventeenth child in a large peasant family in which nineteen were born and eight children survived.
- On December 14, 2017, the Russian Ministry of Defense established the Mikhail Kalashnikov Medal. Employees of the military-industrial complex, research, production and scientific-industrial organizations are awarded for differences in the implementation of innovations in the development, production and commissioning of modern weapons and military equipment.
- In 2015 a monument of legendary designer-gunsmith was unveiled at the Federal War Memorial Cemetery in Mytishchi.
- The biographical film "Kalashnikov" about the designer-gunsmith Mikhail Kalashnikov was shot in 2019. Premiered on February 20, 2020.
- On September 5, 2019, the Bank of Russia issued a commemorative silver coin with a face value of 2 rubles "Weapon Designer M. T. Kalashnikov, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth (11/10/1919)".
- By the name of Kalashnikov is named the largest Russian manufacturer of automatic and sniper combat weapons, guided artillery shells and a wide range of precision weapons - Kalashnikov Group of Companies.
- In 2009 Mikhail Kalashnikov received the highest republican award as a gift from President Hugo Chávez - a copy of the famous sword of Simon Bolivar, which is a relic of Venezuela and presenting a copy is equivalent to the highest award of the country.
- Mikhail Kalashnikov was awarded by Gold Star medal of the Hero of the Russian Federation (RF, 10.11.2009, medal No. 955).
- Kalashnikov was buried on December 27, 2013 at the Pantheon of Heroes of the Federal War Memorial Cemetery.
- The tank meter was the first invention of the young tanker Kalashnikov, recommended for mass production back in 1940.
- The Kalashnikov assault rifle is depicted on the arms of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, East Timor, and also on the national flag of Mozambique.
- After the death, the confessor of Kalashnikov published a letter to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill. In it, he shares his emotional feelings about his responsibility for the deaths of people killed from weapons that he created.
- In 1990, Mikhail Kalashnikov, during a visit to the United States by the invitation of Edward Izzel, a weapons historian at the Smithsonian Institution, met with Eugene Stoner, the creator of AK's main competitor, the M16 assault rifle.
- In 1980, in the Kalashnikov's homeland in the village of Kurya, Altay Territory, a lifetime bronze bust was installed for him.
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