NPP Start - Start Machine-Building Design Bureau () is a company based in
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 ...
, Russia. It is part of the
Technodinamika holding (
Rostec
Rostec, formally trading as State Corporation "Rostec", fully the State Corporation for the Promotion of the Development, Manufacture, and Export of High Tech Products "Rostec" and formerly Rostekhnologii, is a Russian State corporation (Russia), ...
group).
The Start Machine Building Design Bureau was a leading center for the design of launchers and ground support equipment for missiles and aircraft. The plant began to transition to civil production after the
RK-55
The Novator RK-55 ''Relief'' ( 'Relief'; NATO: SSC-X-4 'Slingshot'; GRAU: 3K12) is a Russian Navy cruise missile that is launched either from submarines (SLCM) or from surface ships. It can have a nuclear warhead developed in the Soviet Union. ...
(SSC-X-4) cruise missile, for which Start designed the launchers, was eliminated under the
INF Treaty in the late 1980s.
Today, Start offers a wide range of military and civilian products and services. Civil products include aircraft body parts, aviation fueling equipment, food processing equipment, conveyor machinery, and sports equipment. Services include rocket test facilities and waste recycling. Start is affiliated with the
Scientific Research Institute of Machine Building in
Nizhnyaya Salda.
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Directors
CEO - Chernov Nikolay Sergeevich.
References
External links
Official website
Manufacturing companies based in Yekaterinburg
Technodinamika
Defence companies of the Soviet Union
Ministry of General Machine-Building (Soviet Union)
Aerospace companies of the Soviet Union
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