Editing Mikhail Kalashnikov (section)

==Family==
Kalashnikov's father, Timofey Aleksandrovich Kalashnikov (1883–1930), was a peasant. He completed two grades of [[parochial school]] and could read and write. In 1901, he married Aleksandra Frolovna Kaverina (1884–1957), who was illiterate throughout her life. They had 19 children, but only eight survived to adult age; Kalashnikov was born 17th, and was close to death at age six.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Andrea Drusch|title=10 things about Kalashnikov|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/mikhail-kalashnikov-facts-101486|access-date=2020-12-28|website=POLITICO|date=23 December 2013 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1930, the government labeled Timofey Aleksandrovich a [[kulak]], confiscated his property, and deported him to Siberia, along with most of the family. The eldest three siblings, daughters Agasha (b. 1905) and Anna and son Victor, were already married by 1930, and remained in Kuriya. After her husband's death in 1930, Aleksandra Frolovna married Efrem Kosach, a widower who had three children of his own.<ref name=r3/><ref name=r1/>

Mikhail Kalashnikov married twice, the first time to Ekaterina Danilovna Astakhova of Altai Krai. He married the second time to Ekaterina Viktorovna Moiseyeva (1921–1977).<ref name="NYT"/><ref name="weaponplace">{{cite web |script-title=ru:Калашников Михаил Тимофеевич  |url=http://www.weaponplace.ru/kalashnikov.php |language=ru |publisher=weaponplace.ru}}</ref> She was an engineer and did much technical drawing work for her husband. They had four children: daughters Nelli (b. 1942), Elena (b. 1948) and Natalya (1953–1983), and a son [[Victor Kalashnikov|Victor]] (1942–2018).<ref name=r3/><ref name="weaponplace"/> Victor also became a prominent small arms designer.

The title to the AK-47 trademark belonged to Mikhail Kalashnikov's family until 4 April 2016, when the [[Kalashnikov Concern]] won a lawsuit to invalidate the registration of the trademark.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://meduza.io/news/2016/04/04/kontsern-kalashnikov-otsudil-brend-ak-47-u-rodstvennikov-konstruktora|title=Концерн "Калашников" отсудил бренд АК-47 у&nbsp;родственников конструктора — Meduza|access-date=19 September 2017}}</ref>