# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-kalashnikov
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:06:44.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-kalashnikov"
name: "Victor Kalashnikov"
slug: "victor-kalashnikov"
description: "Victor Mikhailovich Kalashnikov was a Russian small arms designer known for developing the PP-19 Bizon submachine gun."
tagline: "Russian firearm designer (1942–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Victor_Kalashnikov_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-07-16"
deathDate: "2018-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.21
  momentum:             0.182423628203272
  historical:           9.853188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "فكتور ميخائيلوفيتش كلاشنيكوف"
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    title: "Victor Kalashnikov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Վիկտոր Կալաշնիկով"
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    title: "Victor Kalashnikov"
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    title: "Victor Kalashnikov"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump