JSC Kalinin Machine-Building Plant, ZiK or MZiK for short () is a Russian industrial company known for producing artillery and vehicles. It is now part of the

Almaz-Antey JSC Concern VKO "Almaz-Antey" () is a Russian state-owned company in the arms industry, a result of a merger of Antey Corporation and NPO Almaz, unifying some of the national military enterprises, in particular, the developers of anti-airc ...

holding company.

History

Founded in 1866 in

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601, ...

by a decree of Russian emperor Alexander II as an artillery workshop, it was later enlarged into a state factory of field and later on anti-aircraft artillery. In 1918 the factory was moved into

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, in 1941 to

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...

(former Sverdlovsk), where it's located up to now. During

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, the factory produced 20,000 anti-aircraft guns, last channel artillery unit under

mass production Mass production, also known as mass production, series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines ...

was the 152mm KM-52. Since the end of the 1950s, the factory is specializing on the mass production anti-aircraft rocket systems ( SAM defence). Civil products include diesel Diesel forklift trucks DP-1604
and electrical

forklift truck A forklift (also called industrial truck, lift truck, jitney, hi-lo, fork truck, fork hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials over short distances. The forklift was developed in the early 20th c ...

s, public service trucks,Public service car MK-1500M (w/ vacuum cleaner)

electrocar Electrocar, Electrocart is an electric vehicle, typically a small cart with an electrical driving gear and a storage battery. In the United Kingdom, similar small electric vehicles were known as electric drays. A typical Soviet/Belarusian electr ...

s,Electrocars ET-2054
etc. In 2014, Malik Gaisin was appointed the director of the plant. ZiKkommun.jpg, Public service truck 2P24 Transporter-Erector-Launcher with two 3M8 missiles of 2K1 surface-to-air missile complex «Krug» in Military-historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Left view.jpg

Products

Civil

Municipal vacuum paving machine MK-1500M2 (discontinued) Municipal vacuum paving machine MK2000 MR-20 series electric loaders Electric loaders EP-103KAS (discontinued) ET-2054 platform electric trolleys Appliances (In 1990-1991 the plant produced an electric slow cooker "Paryonka")

Military

* Combat assets of the S-300 V anti-aircraft missile system; * Combat means of the BUK-M1 anti-aircraft missile system; * Combat weapons of the Krug air defense system (produced in the 60s-70s); * Combat weapons of the Kub air defense system (produced in the 60s-70s).

Awards

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (, ) was an award named after Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the October Revolution. It was established by the Central Executive Committee on 6 April 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the Soviet ...

(16.01.1939) — for exceptional services to the country in arming the Red Army, creating and mastering new types of weapons *

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour () was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to the Soviet state and society in the fields of production, science, culture, literature, the arts, education, sports ...

(12.05.1941) *

Order of the Patriotic War The Order of the Patriotic War () is a Soviet Union, Soviet military Order (decoration), decoration that was awarded to all soldiers in the Soviet armed forces, security troops, and to Partisan (military), partisans for heroic deeds in the Easte ...

I degree (09.07.1945) *

Order of the October Revolution The Order of the October Revolution (, ''Orden Oktyabr'skoy Revolyutsii'') was instituted on 31 October 1967, in time for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was conferred upon individuals or groups for services furthering communis ...

(24.02.1976)

References

External links

Official website of MZiK
1866 establishments in the Russian Empire Defence companies of the Soviet Union Science and technology in the Soviet Union Almaz-Antey Manufacturing companies based in Yekaterinburg Companies established in 1866 Russian brands Soviet brands Companies formerly listed on the Moscow Exchange {{Russia-company-stub