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The designer of the AK47 Kalashnikov, died 23 December aged 94. Mikhail Kalashnikov, who was in his 20s when he created the gun just after World War Two, died in his home city of Izhevsk, near the Ural Mountains, where his gun is still made.

10 Things About AK47 

1.AK 47 - killed more people than any other gun in the world

2. The cost of one machine on the “black market” range from just £6 to Afghanistan to £3,000 in India.

3. The inventor of the AK-47 did not profit from the gun. Communist states had no patents, and until its collapse in 1991, Kalashnikov was simply an employee of the Soviet Union.

4. It is in service with the armies and special units of 106 countries of the world.

5. The Kalashnikov rifle is in the “Guinness Book of Records” as the most common weapon in the world.Currently, there are about 100 million AK.

6. It in one of the few weapons that can be totally submerged in water and then still fire straight away.

Due to its simplicity and easy of manufacture it is the most copied gun in the world.

7. The AK-47 can be stripped in under a minute and cleaned quickly in almost any climatic condition. Even if it isn’t cleaned, an AK-47 is still more likely to fire than any of its rivals as it has wide mechanical tollerances.

8. With only eight moving parts the AK-47 is cheap to manufacture and easy to use — so easy in fact that users can be taught how to properly handle this weapon in a single hour.

9. In some African countries, a newborn is given a name Kalash - in honor of the Kalashnikov assault rifle.

10. It in one of the few weapons that can be totally submerged in water and then still fire straight away.