Open joint-stock company
A public joint-stock company, abbreviated PJSC (, abbreviated ) or open joint-stock company, abbreviated OJSC (, abbreviated ), is a type of company in many successor states of the Soviet Union, particularly in Russia. Its distinguishing featur ...
(JSC) NMZ or
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...
Machine-building Plant () is a Russian (formerly Soviet) artillery factory in the
Sormovo district of
Gorky. It included the TsAKB artillery design bureau led by
Vasiliy Grabin.
Currently, part of
Almaz-Antey together with Almaz-Antey Branch no. 1.
Names
Previous names for this factory include Gorky Machine-building Plant (), All-Union Machine-building Plant ''New Sormovo'' (, ''Novoje Sormovo''), Joseph Stalin Factory No. 92, Artillery Factory No. 92, ''Zavod imeni Stalina'', or ZiS.
Products
Its products included:
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ZiS-2 57mm antitank gun
*
ZiS-3
The 76-mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3) () (GRAU index: 52-P-354U) was a Soviet 76.2 mm divisional field gun used during World War II. ''ZiS'' was a factory designation and stood for ''Zavod imeni Stalina'' ("factory named after Stalin"), t ...
76.2mm divisional gun
*
ZiS-5 76.2mm tank gun (version of the
F-34 tank gun)
*
ZiS-30 self-propelled antitank gun
*
ZiS-S-53 85mm tank gun
Current products
* Ship-based
nuclear power plant
A nuclear power plant (NPP), also known as a nuclear power station (NPS), nuclear generating station (NGS) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power st ...
for
Navy
A navy, naval force, military maritime fleet, war navy, or maritime force is the military branch, branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval warfare, naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral z ...
(including surface ships and submarine)
*: In 2006
Rosenergoatom and
Sevmash signed a contract for the
floating nuclear power plant. NMZ produced the nuclear power plants
KLT-40S for it.
*
Surface-to-air missile
A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea to destroy aircraft or other missiles. It is one type of anti-ai ...
systems,
anti-aircraft weapons,
anti-ballistic missile
An anti-ballistic missile (ABM) is a surface-to-air missile designed to Missile defense, destroy in-flight ballistic missiles. They achieve this explosively (chemical or nuclear), or via hit-to-kill Kinetic projectile, kinetic vehicles, which ma ...
systems and radars
* Artillery
* NMZ Production, a team who makes short films.
Main shareholders
*
JSC Concern VKO "Almaz-Antey" — 51% of shares
* Open Joint Stock Company Head System Design Bureau of the "Almaz-Antey" Air Defense Concern — 35,12% of shares
References
External links
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1932 establishments in Russia
Defence companies of the Soviet Union
Nuclear technology in the Soviet Union
Nuclear technology companies of Russia
Almaz-Antey
Manufacturing companies based in Nizhniy Novgorod
Manufacturing companies established in 1932
Companies formerly listed on the Moscow Exchange
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