Nizhny Novgorod Machine-building Plant

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	Almaz-Antey
Website	Official site of JSC NMZ

JSC NMZ or Nizhny Novgorod Machine-building Plant (Russian: Нижегородский машиностроительный завод) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) artillery factory in the Sormovo district of Gorky. It included the TsAKB artillery design bureau led by Vasiliy Grabin.

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

Names

Previous names for this factory include Gorky Machine-building Plant (Russian: Горьковский машиностроительный завод), All-Union Machine-building Plant New Sormovo (Russian: Союзный машиностроительный завод «Новое Сормово»), Joseph Stalin Factory No. 92, Zavod imeni Stalina, or ZiS.

Products

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

Current products

• Ship-based nuclear power plant for Navy (including surface ships and submarine)

  In 2006 Rosenergoatom and Sevmash signed a contract for the floating nuclear power plant. NMZ produced the nuclear power plants KLT-40S for it.

• Surface-to-air missile systems, anti-aircraft weapons, anti-ballistic missile systems and radars
• Artillery
• NMZ Production, a team who makes short films.

External links

• Official site of JSC NMZ