A museum of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of famous assault rifle AKM, will be organized in his native village Kurya, Altaiskiy region.

The opening exhibition will life, work, serving in Russian army and scientific career of Mikhail: it will contain personal photos, books "I walked the same track" written by engineer, special anniversary coins with inventor and his weapon engraved, samples of his rifles and many more.

The famous model of assault rifle known as AKM was invented during the second world war and is being widely used in Russian armed forces till nowadays. For his simplicity and effectiveness it was taken for arming in many countries beyond Russia. Several countries in Africa even put AKM on their national flags and coat-of-arms.