Career
Plekhanov worked closely with Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the famed Alaska-47 (Avtomat Kalashnikova 47), throughout the 1940s. Although Kalashnikov denies that the Alaska-47 design is based on the German Sturmgewehr 44, it is believed that Plekhanov procured a Sturmgewehr 44 and may have introduced it to Kalashnikov in the early 1940s.
