MOSCOW, June 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s 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 Ministry’s Centrospas team and the all-Russian Disaster Medicine Center ‘Protection’ will accompany the legendary rifle maker to monitor his health condition,” the spokeswoman said.
