Famous armorer Mikhail Kalashnikov. (RIA Novosti / Ruslan Krivobok)
AK-47 Inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov In Intensive Care -- RT
Mikhail Kalashnikov, the 93 year-old inventor of the world’s most popular automatic rifle, has been admitted to a cardiology hospital in the Russian city of Izhevsk, in the Urals.
The engineer’s health is said to have worsened during a routine check up on December 20, and Kalashnikov has stayed in intensive care ever since.
According to his biographer Aleksandr Uzhanov, the weapons designer, who has until recently regularly attended work at the military plant in named after him, “feels good and plans to leave the hospital in the coming days.”
Doctors confirm the life of the increasingly frail Kalashnikov is not in immediate danger.
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