JSC Kuznetsov

JSC Kuznetsov
Joint-stock company
Industry Engineering
Founded 1912
Headquarters Samara, Russia
Parent United Engine Corporation
Website kuznetsov-motors.ru

JSC Kuznetsov (Russian: ПАО «Кузнецов») is one of the leading Russian producers of aircraft engines, liquid-propellant rocket engines as well as aeroderivative gas turbines and modular stations.

The current joint-stock company was established through the consolidation of several Samara-based aerospace engine companies, including JSC N.D. Kuznetsov SNTK, JSC Samara Design Bureau of Machine Building and JSC NPO Povolzhskiy AviTI.

History

The company was established in 1912 as the Gnome Factory of Moscow, after the French aircraft engine company Gnome et Rhône which supplied the engine parts assembled by the plant.[1] In 1925 it was renamed 'Frunze Factory № 24', after Bolshevik leader Mikhail Frunze.[1] The factory was evacuated to its current location in Samara in 1941.[1]

The Samara Frunze Engine-Building Production Association was one of the principal aerospace engine production complexes in Russia, with six plants and 25,000 employees in the early 1990s. It has produced turbojet and turboprop engines for military and civil use, including Blackjack and Backfire bombers and Tu-154 transports. The NK-12M engine produced by Frunze is the most powerful turboprop in the world. Samara Frunze also produced engines for the Salyut spacecraft and for the Mir space station.[2]

Re-established as the joint-stock company Motorostroitel in 1994, it retained this denomination until 2010, when it was merged with several other Samara-based engine plants on the verge of bankruptcy.[1] It then took the name of one of new its subsidiaries, Kuznetsov Design Bureau.[3]

Products

The current production range of JSC Kuznetsov includes the NK-33 rocket engine, the Kuznetsov NK-32 aviation engine and the NK-37ST industrial engine.[4] In 2016 the company announced plans to produce a modernized version of its NK-32 engine by the end of the year.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "The Historical Chronicles of Kuznetsov JSC". Kuznetsov-motors.ru. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "Russian Defense Business Directory". Federation of American Scientists. US Department of Commerce Bureau of Export Administration. May 1995. Retrieved 21 July 2017.  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ↑ "ОАО "Моторостроитель" переименован в ОАО "Кузнецов"". АвиаПорт.Ru (in Russian). Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Products". Kuznetsov-motors.ru. Archived from the original on 20 May 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  5. ↑ "Russia to Produce First Modernized NK-32 Aircraft Engines by End of 2016". sputniknews.com. Archived from the original on 1 April 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
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