In Moscow, a monument to gunsmith Mikhail Kalashnikov was erected on the Garden Ring
In Moscow, at the intersection of Sadovaya-Karetnaya and Dolgorukovskaya streets, on September 16, a monument to gunsmith Mikhail Kalashnikov was erected. He is shown holding his most famous development, the Kalashnikov assault rifle. Next to the monument there is a composition denoting, according to the sculptor Salavat Shcherbakov, "the figure of the globe and the image of the Archangel Michael, driving a dragon into the underworld with a spear." “This spear is the symbol of the automaton.