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Type
  
Joint stock company

Revenue
  
$58,502 mln (2006)

Founded
  
1932

NMZ

Headquarters
  
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Key people
  
Vasily Shupranov (General Director, since October 2011)

Products
  
Armament (weapons and ammunition), oil and gas fittings

JSC NMZ or Nizhny Novgorod Machine-building Plant (Russian: Нижегородский машиностроительный завод or 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) 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.

    Current products

  • Ship-based nuclear power plant for Navy (including surface ships and submarine)
  • Surface-to-air missile systems, anti-aircraft weapons, anti-ballistic missile systems and radars
  • Artillery
  • NMZ Production, a team who makes short films.

    • References

    NMZ Wikipedia
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