On November 10, 2019, the legendary designer and gunsmith Mikhail Kalashnikov could celebrate the 100th anniversary. Unfortunately, Mikhail Timofeevich died in 2013 after severe illness.
In connection with a significant event, the editorial office of 24cmi collected interesting facts from the biography and personal life of the gunsmith.
Born in a shirt
Mikhail Timofeevich was a very weak child, in childhood he feared almost everyone. Once the future gunsmith barely died. At 6 years, parents found him without movement and immediately called a carpenter so that he would build a globe. As soon as the hammer ran, Kalashnikov woke up. Mother then told the neighbors for a long time that Misha was born in a shirt.
Poet
Kalashnikov dreamed in childhood to become a poet. His poems even published in the newspaper, and at school he wrote scenarios for matinee. In addition, the designer was fond of classical music.
Phobia
Mikhail Timofeevich in one of the interviews recognized that the water was very afraid. This is associated with an unpleasant case from childhood. The elder brother made him wooden skates, which almost became the cause of his death. In them, Kalashnikov fell under the ice, but he saved his fur coat, which was great and swelled, holding the future gunsmith over the water. Saved him passerby adult, and Mikhail Timofeevich since then was afraid of water, even at the resorts did not move away from the coast.
Eternal Engine
It is known that Mikhail Timofeevich began to get involved in technology in childhood. According to him, for a long time he wondered over the creation of an eternal engine. On the village collected bolts and bearings, and a certain wooden box came out, in which the balls went. The teacher of physics promised to put Calashnikov five, if the Eternal Engine will work, but he never worked.
Talent in Bytu.
The inventor of the famous weapons - the AK-47 machine - used his talent and in everyday life. Few people know that on their summer cottage under the Izhevsky Kalashnikov triggered the grass with a lawn mowing, which he collected himself. To do this, he only needed a cart for the transport of flasks and details of the old washing machine.
Love and children
With his second wife, Ekaterina Mikhail Timofeevich met precisely at the moment of the invention of the Kalashnikov machine gun. Together they lived for many years, until the death of a woman in 1977. From that moment on, the gunmaker no longer married, devoting himself to work and three children.