Like others have said, to have had no formal training he designed a rifle that even a completely uneducated man could operate, work on when necessary, and in some cases, even duplicate without the 'proper' tools needed to do so.
I think that's something our modern day 'educated' engineers should pay attention to as it seems most feel that over complicating, by 'adding parts to simplify the design', is the way to go nowdays. Saddly I think most feel that they just have to add parts and/or come up with new designs, to solve problems that have already been solved, to justify their own jobs. Basically they let their 'higher education' turn them into 'educated idiots' when it comes to their designs and forget the whole KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) that us 'uneducated' folks apply to the things we do.
In the end Kalashinkov may not have been the most educated man in the world, but he was definitely smart. Thing is if you look through history it's folks like that, more than any others, that developed products, or ideas, that have had the most lasting effects on, and basically changed the world as we know it.
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