AK-47 enters production
1948 · 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
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Lenin's leadership of Soviet Russia (1917)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
Around 1948
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Apartheid (1948)
- World War II (1939)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)