AK-47 enters production
1947 · Event
Mikhail Kalashnikov's rugged automatic rifle becomes the most widely produced and influential firearm in history.
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More from Russia & the USSR
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Glasnost and perestroika (1985)
- Operation Barbarossa (1941)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Siege of Leningrad (1941)
Around 1947
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Sputnik launch (1957)
- German invasion of Poland (1939)
- Cold War (1947)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Death of Hitler / Fall of Berlin (1945)
- Fall of France (1940)