23.06 Plane to Take AK-47 Inventor Kalashnikov to Moscow Hospital
MOSCOW, June 23 (RIA Novosti) Russias Emergencies Ministry has sent a plane to Izhevsk in western Urals to take Mikhail Kalashnikov, the 93-year-old inventor of the legendary AK-47 assault rifle, to a Moscow clinic, ministry spokeswoman Irina Rossius said on Sunday.
Due to the emergence of the need for medical observation, the doctors have decided to send Mikhail Timofeyevich [Kalashnikov] to one of Moscow clinics, the spokeswoman said, without specifying the health condition of the legendary assault rifle inventor.
The plane is equipped with a special medical module and has the necessary medical equipment, she said.
During the flight, the best doctors of the Emergency Ministrys Centrospas team and the all-Russian Disaster Medicine Center
