Izhevsk

With the Soviet Union long past and the remnants of itsfirearms industry struggling, Izhmash, the factory in Izhevsk where Gen. Kalashnikov worked, is now partially privatized.

The History of the Kalashnikov 2006

Suspicions that the AK-47 was based on the StG44 are reinforced by the fact that Hugo Schmeisser was captured by the Soviet Army in 1945 and spent years in the city of Izhevsk, the main center of AK-47 production to this day.

Everyman Robert Kim 2010

Media reports, citing opposition parties as their sources, said that local administrations in regions including Voronezh, Kemerovo, Tambov, Ryazan and Izhevsk have variously asked public employees to gather signatures for United Russia, instructed them to vote for the party, or offered public employees or pensioners various benefits if they help United Russia achieve a certain percent of the vote.

Human Rights Watch: Q & A: Russian National Elections in 2011 and 2012 Human Rights Watch 2011

Sakharov, one of the physicists who led the Soviet nuclear-arms program, had contributed to the successful detonation of RDS-1 outside Semipalatinsk in 1949 while Kalashnikov was involved in outfitting the gun works in Izhevsk.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

With so many assault rifles stockpiled, and other manufacturers competing—Arsenal in Bulgaria, Radom in Poland, Romtechnica in Romania, Norinco in China, F.E.G. in Hungary now closed, Zastava in Serbia, and others—Izhmash and Izhmech, the paired companies in Izhevsk responsible for Kalashnikov production, struggled to make sales.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

Reuters A worker at an oil field east of Izhevsk near the Ural Mountains in.

U.K. Court Lifts Freeze on Rosneft Guy Chazan 2010

Reuters A worker at an oil field east of Izhevsk near the Ural Mountains in.

U.K. Court Lifts Freeze on Rosneft Guy Chazan 2010

Dragunov, a former army gunsmith who had become a designer in Izhevsk, competed against another konstruktor, Aleksandr Konstantinov, to make a prototype.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

Reuters A worker at an oil field east of Izhevsk near the Ural Mountains in.

U.K. Court Lifts Freeze on Rosneft Guy Chazan 2010

Interview with Mikhail Kalashnikov by Bryon MacWilliams, correspondent in Russia for Newsweek magazine, in Izhevsk in 2004.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010