Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant

Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant
Native name
ОАО «Златоустовский машиностроительный завод»
Open joint-stock company
Industry Mechanical engineering
Founded 1939 (1939)
Headquarters Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Oblast, USSRRussia
Key people
Sergey Antonovich Lemeshevsky, general director
Products Ballistic missiles, Submarine-launched ballistic missiles, Firearms, Industrial equipment
Parent Roscosmos[1]
Website zlatmash.ru

The Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant is a former arms manufacturing plant in Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It produced many of the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons, including the R-39 Submarine-launched ballistic missile.

The plant was founded in 1939 for the production of small arms. Today, in addition to small arms, it produces industrial equipment and medical supplies.[2]

References

  1. "О мерах по созданию Государственной корпорации по космической деятельности "Роскосмос"". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  2. Oleg Bukharin, Pavel Leonardovich Podvig (2001), Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-66181-2


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