Estimates of production of the Kalashnikov AK-47 and derivative weapons may be exaggerated. The museum chronicles the biography of General Kalashnikov and documents the invention of the AK-47. Kalash is a reference to the Russian Kalashnikov rifle. He named the other candidates as Yury Afonin, Sergey Levchenko, and Leonid Kalashnikov. It is the place of birth of Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is the originating firearm of the Kalashnikov rifle (or "AK") family. Parabellum submachine gun (also known as the PP-19-01) developed in 2004 by Izhmash (now Kalashnikov). The primary types of Kalashnikov rifles. On 19 September 2017 a monument of Kalashnikov was unveiled in central Moscow. It shares no parts with Kalashnikov rifles, including the magazine. The factory manufactures the AK-203 variant of the Kalashnikov family of rifles. In this case, the designation AK does not indicate "Avtomat Kalashnikova" but "Alexandrov/Kalashnikov". The AK-101 is an assault rifle of the Kalashnikov series. Varg Vikernes began making music in 1988 with the band Kalashnikov. It is one of the latest models of the popular Kalashnikov rifle series.