Amazing turns of fate of the wonderful designer-nugget M.T. Kalashnikov. In his life there was everything: a daring design takeoff, and failures, and the joy of victories, and his life itself is inextricably linked with the development and improvement of automatic small arms. The notes of M.T. Kalashnikov are both a personal confession, and a fascinating story about people until recently for many of the closed defense industry, and new touches on the portraits of famous weapons designers.