Anniversaire de Mikhaïl Kalachnikov

In your distant and half-starved childhood, you were using birchbark notebooks for your studies in school. In your youth, you were defending the Motherland during the Great Patriotic War, and then you invested all your knowledge, combat experience and life’s wisdom into creating the world's best firearms – the submachine gun that was named after you. Today, It is difficult to count how many modifications have been based on your submachine gun АК-47 that became the best submachine gun in the USSR, and then in the modern Russia, turning into the guarantor of freedom and independence of many countries in the world. Your name, dear Mikhail Timofeyevich, along with the name of the first cosmonaut on the planet, Yuriy Alekseyevich Gagarin, became the symbol of our country in the 20th century…

Votre nom, cher Mikhaïl Timofieïevitch, ainsi que le nom du premier cosmonaute du monde, Youri Alekseïevitch Gagarine, est devenu le symbole de notre pays au 20ème siècle...