Visiting The AK-47 Kalashnikov Museum in Russia

This is Photoset Museum Kalashnikov AK-47 in the city Izhvesk, Russia. Kalashnikov Museum was opened in the city of Izhevsk, Russia on November 4, 2004 - one week before the anniversary of 47 AK-85 designer as a gift for her birthday. The project budget has exceeded $ 8,000, 000. You can view the photos created by museum visitors

IThis is the entrance to the Museum of Kalashnikov guns and Museum was inaugurated in the city center Izhvesk, Russia, November 4, 2004 - a week before the 85th anniversary of Mikhail Kalashnikov. Construction of the museum began in 1996, but discontinued due to lack of funds. During a visit to Izhvesk in 2003, CEO of Aur "EU Russia" Anatoly Chubais, held a meeting with Mikhail Kalashnikov, Udmurt Republic government and potential investors. As a result of this visit, the schedule for project funding for museums and exhibition centers could be opened before the anniversary of the designer.

There are many exhibitions in the first room of the museum dedicated to the biography of M. Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47

Here is the AK-47 assault rifle from the first production series. With the Summer of 1948 AK-47 pilot batches manufactured and at the end of 1948 AK-47 made it through field trials. In 1949 an assault rifle, designated "Kalashnikov 7.62mm assault rifle, make 1947 (AK)" was adopted by the Soviet Army and Kalashnikov (just turned 30) has been awarded the Stalin Prize for Industrial Work.

This exhibition presents the AKM version: top model - with folding stock, to the next - with wood and bayonets and guns with silencers. Here is a limited edition version: butt, hand grip, fore grip, hand guard and magazine are made of glass filled polyamide material green. These modifications produced on special order - the soldiers guard the border with the Soviet Union gave the best individual AKMs green and labeled individually. Mikhail Kalashnikov is often visited the border post in private hands, and specifically as a tribute to the best guards AK

In the museum there are LCD and plasma panels, provides visitors with audio and visual information that is different about the life history of inventors and inventions. In general, there are 17 videos and multimedia presentations that run in the exhibition - the large LCD panel.

Along with the development and improvement of AK-47 Kalashnikov Design Bureau has been working on the design team for the general-purpose automatic weapon, intended for all types of combat troops. da changes to the air force, for the armor and so on and PK-series (Pulemyot Kalashnikova) 7.62 x 54 R caliber round was adopted as the universal standard machine gun of the Red Army. You can see the experimental model and the standard PK machine gun. They describe the design of unification - one of which is to Panzergrenadier, while others - mounted on the tank. PKT tank machine gun is different in how the electrical initiation was formed to ensure that the remote-controlled fire has been associated with the end of the receiver instead of butt plate. This infantry PK machine gun was developed by Evgeniy Samozhenkov installation.

In the picture above, you can see the AK74 mount. The next one - AK-74 with 40-mm grenade launcher GP25 underbarrel, you can see the rubber shock absorber mounted on a stock-butts to reduce the backlash caused by a grenade launcher. Next is the AKS-74 - this feature is a folding stock, and the last is the AKS-74U - it sports a folding stock, short barrel, changing views and mechanisms of gas, a strange device on the muzzle flash suppressor. popular with Spetznaz (special forces of Russia Very) forces and law enforcement in major Russian cities of Russia. Based on the design of the AK-74, there RPK light machine gun (with 45 series magazines) have been developed and adopted by the Red Army.

Additionally, take the AK as a prototype, there were hunting rifles designed a line:
- Saiga self-loading hunting carbine (1974) (developed from the AKM Kalashnikov assault rifle in 1974)
- Vepr self-loading hunting carbine (Pic was developed from 0.6 to 15 artifacts from the era of guns RPK-74 light machine. This is different from the RPK-74 in caliber,, cartridge mode of fire, magazine capacity, design and dimensions)
Displayed in this showcase, the first three black rifles and shotguns are manufactured by Izhmash finished last, while the carbine was made by a factory-Vepr Polyansk Vyatsko.

Not only created by the Kalashnikov weapons. Here is a lawn mower made by his project. He likes to take care of the grass at his summer cottage.
There are more exhibits in the museum, we can read a more detailed review at a special website devoted to AK-47.
Also I want to mention that in Russia there is even a vodka named after the AK-47 Kalashnikov inventor and company. But who might be surprised at such a fact?