More than Just the AK-47: Kalashnikov Has Been in the Game for 200 Years
The history of Russia's classic gun maker is more complex than you'd expect. Here's What You Need to Remember: While Mikhail Kalashnikov actually worked at the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant, he and his estate actually have no ties to the company. Perhaps the most surprising fact about the company that is known today as the JSC Kalashnikov Concern was that it was actually founded not by gun maker Mikhail Kalashnikov, the gun designer who created the infamous AK-47. Rather the company was actually founded in 1807 by Tsar Alexander I of Russia! Technically, it isn't even a company, but the Rus...
Source: nationalinterest.org