Lytkarino Optical Glass Plant () is a company based in

Lytkarino Lytkarino () is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Moskva River southeast of Moscow (from MKAD). Population: History Lytkarino was founded in the first half of the 15th century as a village of the same name and gr ...

, Russia and established in 1934. It is part of the

Shvabe Holding Shvabe Holding () is a holding company within the Russian state-owned Rostec group responsible for development and production of high-tech optical-electronic systems both for military and civil purposes, manufacturing of optical, medical and ene ...

of the state-owned

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corporation. The Lytkarino Optical Glass Plant is a major producer of optical glass and precision optical instruments for the military as well as for the civilian market, producing night vision devices and glass laser optics.

History

On October 1, 1933 Order №887/204 of the All-Union Trust of the Optical and Mechanical Industry of the

People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry The People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (Narkomtiazhprom; ) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. which operated the electric power system in the Soviet Union was subordinated to the commissariat. Brief overview The Peop ...

of the USSR (NKTP) was signed on the construction of a mirror reflector plant near the village of

in the Ukhtomsky district of the Moscow Region (ZZO — the name of the plant before its renaming) for searchlight installations with mirrors up to 150 cm in diameter. The plant began to be built in 1934-1935. In 1939 the unfinished plant produced its first products – five searchlight mirrors with a diameter of 1.5 meters. At that time, only factories in Leningrad and

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produced similar products in the USSR. In the first months of the war, the USSR was left without key manufacturers of material for the production of binoculars, periscopes for submarines, anti-aircraft sights and other important optics. Since the early 1970s the production of consumer goods and medical optics has been developing. In 1972 LZOS began to develop the production of large-sized lens lenses.

Awards

* For services to the creation and production of new equipment and the successful implementation of the seven-year State Plan by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated July 7, 1966, the plant's staff was awarded the

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 ...

. * For hard work in the 9th five-year plan, the successful implementation of the State Plan in 1976, the association was awarded the

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 ...

Directors

CEO - Ignatov Alexander Nikolaevich.

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Official website
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