What is Victor Kalashnikov?
[[File:Victor Kalashnikov (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Kalashnikov at [[Mikhail Kalashnikov|his father's]] funeral, December 2013]] '''Victor Mikhailovich Kalashnikov''' ({{lang-ru|Ви́ктор Миха́йлович Кала́шников}}; 16 July 1942 – 27 March 2018) was a Russian [[small arms]] designer. He was known for developing the [[PP-19 Bizon]] and [[AK-74m]]. He was the son of [[Mikhail Kalashnikov]].<ref name=r1>[http://museum-mtk.ru/armourers/list/detail.htm?id=883896&factory=712204 Калашников Виктор Михайлович] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128141816/http://museum-mtk.ru/armourers/list/detail.htm?id=883896&factory=712204 |date=2020-11-28 }}. Kalashnikov Museum. museum-mtk.ru</ref> He was born in [[Kazakh SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]. He began his weapon designing career in 1966 by conducting a series of tests of the [[AK-47]].<ref name=r2>Galina Sapozhnikova (10 November 2004) [http://rusk.ru/st.php?idar=712686 Михаил Калашников: Я создавал оружие для защиты Отечества, а не для бандитских разборок!]. [[Komsomolskaya Pravda]]</ref> Kalashnikov died at a university hospital in [[Izhevsk]], Russia on 27 March 2018 at the age of 75.<ref>[http://www.interfax.ru/russia/605681 Оружейник Виктор Калашников скончался в Ижевске] {{in lang|ru}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://museum-mtk.ru/armourers/list/detail.htm?id=883896&factory=712204 Биография на сайте музея им. М.Т. Калашникова] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128141816/http://museum-mtk.ru/armourers/list/detail.htm?id=883896&factory=712204 |date=2020-11-28 }} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalashnikov, Victor}} [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Russian engineers]] [[Category:Russian inventors]]