Barnaul Cartridge Plant

Barnaul Cartridge Plant

Type	Manufacturer
Industry	Firearms
Headquarters	Barnaul, Altai Krai, Russia
Area served	worldwide
Products	Ammunition
Parent	BSZ Holding company www.bszholding.ru
Website	eng.barnaulpatron.ru

Barnaul Cartridge Plant JSC (Russian: Барнаульский патронный завод) is a manufacturer of industrial goods and ammunition in Barnaul, Altai Krai, Russia.

History

The factory draws its origins to an ammunition factory established in Saint Petersburg in the 19th century. It was evacuated to Podolsk during the Russian Civil War, and again to its current location in Barnaul in 1941.^[1] The factory is part of the Barnaul Machine Tool Building Plant holding.^[2]

Product lines (brands)

Centaur cartridges logo

• BEAR series
  • The BEAR series is a line of hunting ammunition. The cartridges use lead-cored Full Metal Jacketed, Soft-Point (Semi-Jacketed), or Hollow Point bullets, have steel cases with Berdan primers, and use a non-corrosive propellant. The sub-brands differ only in the protective coating used on the cartridge case.
  • Brown Bear ammunition cartridges have a brown lacquer coating on the steel case.
  • Silver Bear ammunition cartridges have a zinc coating on the steel case.
  • Golden Bear^[3] ammunition cartridges have a brass coating on the steel case.
• CENTAUR ammunition cartridges have a polymer coating on the steel case, are berdan primed, use non-corrosive Belgian-made propellants produced by P.B. Clermont S.A.,^[4] and are loaded with American-made "tombac" jacketed bullets produced by Hornady Manufacturing Company.^[5] Barnaul began a process of retooling in 2009^[4] to produce a new line of higher-grade ammunition to compete in the American and European markets. This was either due to their previous products being compared unfavorably or because Russian ammunition has a stigma of being poorly made and unreliable. The first CENTAUR brand ammunition was produced in 2013.^[4]
• BARNAUL series
  • Barnaul Gold ammunition cartridges, with brass cases. Currently comes in 5.56×45mm NATO and 9×19mm Parabellum.
  • Barnaul Silver ammunition cartridges, with zinc-coated steel cases. Currently comes in 5.56×45mm NATO and 9×19mm Parabellum.
• Traumatic ammunition pistol cartridges fire less-than-lethal rubber bullets. Currently comes in 9×19mm Parabellum and .45 ACP.
• Military (mil-spec) ammunition cartridges. Military cartridges made to contractor nation's specifications. It also refers to civilian 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×39mm M43 Soviet full-metal-jacketed lead-core bullet hunting cartridges packed in novelty 700-round Warsaw Pact-style oval-shaped vacuum-packed sheet steel "spam cans".
• MONARCH (Academy Sports) – Barnaul currently makes the steel-cased ammunition for Academy Sports' MONARCH brand. (Academy Sports is an American purchasing and importing group that buys foreign made ammo and resells it under their brands at their own chain of stores).

Ammunition products

Source: Barnaulpatron.ru.^[6]

Pistol Cartridges

• 9×19mm Luger (9×19mm Parabellum)
• 9×18mm Makarov (9mm Makarov)
• .45 ACP

Shotgun Shells

• 410 Magnum
• 12 gauge

Rifle Cartridges

• 5.45×39mm cartridges
• 5.56×45mm NATO (.223 Remington) cartridges
• 6.5×39mm Grendel cartridges
• 6.61×51mm (.243 Winchester) cartridges
• 7.62×39mm cartridges
• 7.62×51mm (.308 Winchester) cartridges
• 7.62×54mmR cartridges
• 7.62×63mm (.30-06 Springfield) cartridges
• 9.3×64mm Brenneke cartridges

See also

• Wolf Ammunition
• Red Army Standard Ammunition
• LVE Novosibirsk Ammunition
• 9×18mm Makarov
• Ballistics
• Tula Arms Plant
• List of modern Russian small arms

References

External links

• Barnaul Cartridge Plant (English)