NMZ

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NMZ
Type Joint stock company
Founded 1932
Headquarters Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Key people Vasily Shupranov (General Director, since October 2011)
Products Armament (weapons and ammunition), oil and gas fittings
Revenue $58,502 mln (2006)
Net income −372 mln rub (2009)
Parent part of Almaz-Antey holding
Website Official site of JSC NMZ

JSC NMZ or Nizhny Novgorod Machine-building Plant (Russian: Нижегородский машиностроительный завод or All-Union Machine-building Plant New Sormovo Russian: Союзный машиностроительный завод «Новое Сормово», Joseph Stalin Factory No. 92, Zavod imeni Stalina, or ZiS) was a Soviet artillery factory in the Sormovo district of Gorky. It included the TsAKB artillery design bureau led by Vasiliy Grabin.

Its products included

  • ZiS-2 57mm antitank gun
  • ZiS-3 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

Currently, part of Almaz-Antey together with Almaz-Antey Branch no. 1.

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