Kalinin Machine-Building Plant

Kalinin Machine-Building Plant

JSC Kalinin Machine-Building Plant, ZiK or MZiK for short ( _ru. Машиностроительный завод имени М.И.Калинина, ЗиК, МЗиК) is a large Soviet/Russian industrial factory, now part of Almaz-Antey holding.

Founded in 1866 in St. Petersburg by a decree of Russian emperor Alexander II as an artillery workshop, later enlarged into a state factory of field and later on anti-aircraft artillery.

In 1918 the factory was moved into Moscow Region, in 1941 to Yekaterinburg (former Sverdlovsk), where it's located up to now.

During the WWII factory produced 20,000 anti-aircraft guns, last channel artillery unit under mass production was the 152mm KM-52.

Since the end of 1950th the factory is specializing on the mass production anti-aircraft rocket systems (SAM defence).

External links

* [http://www.zik.ru/index_en.html Official website of MZiK]


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