Life Can Make You Do Many Things,

Before Attempting To Create Something New, It Is Vital To Have A Good Appreciation Of Everything That Already Exists In This Field.

It Is Painful For Me To See When Criminal Elements Of All Kinds Fire From My Weapon.

You See, With [designing]weapons, It Is Like A Woman Who Bears Children. For Months She Carries Her Baby And Thinks About It. A Designer Does Much The Same Thing With A Prototype. I Felt Like A Mother - Always Proud. It Is A Special Feeling, As If You Were Awarded With A Special Award. I Shot With It A Lot. I Still Do Now. That Is Why I Am Hard Of Hearing.

My Aim Was To Create Armaments To Protect The Borders Of My Motherland. It Is Not My Fault That The Kalashnikov Became Very Well-known In The World; That It Was Used In Many Troubled Places. I Think The Policies Of These Countries Are To Blame, Not The Designers. Man Is Born To Protect His Family, His Children, His Wife. But I Want You To Know That Apart From Armaments, I Have Written Three Books In Which I Try To Educate Our Youth To Show Respect For Their Families, For Old People, For History.

I Wanted To Invent An Engine That Could Run For Ever. I Could Have Developed A New Train, Had I Stayed In The Railway. It Would Have Looked Like The Ak-47 Though.