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Today I explain a biography & war base Movie "Kalashnikov" and The story of Mikhail Kalashnikov,

inventor of the most infamous weapon on earth: the AK-47 rifle.


The movie begins with a scene in which Mikhail Kalashnikov, a young farmer's son from Altai, is shown
secretively crafting a toy gun (the scene is later expanded by flashbacks).
In the middle of World War II in the year 1941, the scene cuts to Senior Sergeant Kalashnikov, now an
adult, commanding tanks for the Red Army.
Kalashnikov is evacuated off the front lines after being critically injured while taking out a German anti-
tank gun during the Battle of Bryansk.
He sees his comrade's new submachine gun jam at a critical moment because of design problems in the
magazine as they come across a group of German soldiers while being carried to the rear.
He is encouraged by this to use his self-taught inventive talent to create a brand-new automatic weapon
for the Soviet army.
On the way home, Kalashnikov arrives at Matai Station in Kazakhstan, where he had served as an
engineer until being dismissed for developing his own weapons in the depot's workshop.
He approaches Krotov, his former boss, for permission to put together his most recent invention, but
Krotov declines.
After receiving approval from Basarov, a senior officer who is passing by, Kalashnikov presents his design.
With the support of the Station's employees, he successfully constructs his new submachine gun.
He mistakenly gets arrested while attempting to deliver it to Basarov, but Basarov notices the gun's
working prototype and orders that it should be examined.
As a result, General Pavel Kurbatkin, the district commander for Central Asia, releases Kalashnikov and
encourages him to show him his gun so that he might be qualified for a national weapons design
competition.
Kalashnikov is sent to Golutvin, the Shchurov arms testing facility, where he will compete against
prestigious arms designers such as Alexey Sudayev and Sergei Korovin; it is also there that he meets
Ekaterina Moiseeva, a female design assistant and his future wife.
While his weapon eventually loses to Sudayev's gun, he is given permission to continue working on new
designs, and his friends encourage him to do so.
By the end of the war, Kalashnikov has completed a new automatic rifle and is sent to the Kovrov Arms
Factory to improve on it.
He conducts his own successful trial after being denied a test at the firing range.
He is arrested for testing his gun in the open without authorization and brought to General Vasily
Degtyaryov, a notable arms designer whom Kalashnikov considers his fiercest competitor.
However, Degtyaryov withdraws from the competition, expressing his genuine appreciation for
Kalashnikov's talent and the superiority of his design, and the new rifle passes testing under extreme
conditions (after being immersed in water and sand).
After the first major field testing, the new weapon is approved for mass production in 1949.
Kalashnikov is decorated and given an extended leave of absence to visit his mother at his home farm
with his wife and children.

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