World Bulletin / News Desk

Constructor Mikhail Kalashnikov has been hospitalized in the Russian city of Izhevsk, a source in the healthcare sector of the Republic of Udmurtia said, reported Voice of Russia.

The source did not specify when the constructor was hospitalized. Kalashnikov's press officer Sergei Nosachev said that Kalashnikov is fine. "He is fine. He is safe and sound," he said.

Mikhail Kalashnikov was born on November 10, 1919.