Joint Stock Company "Azov Optical and Mechanical Plant" (JSC "AOMZ") is one of the largest enterprises in the South of Russia. The history of the plant is a complex but interesting way of becoming from ordinary mechanical workshops to a modernly equipped enterprise. The association has been specializing for decades in the field of instrumentation and mechanical engineering, which gives it the ability to manufacture products of the highest degree of complexity and accuracy: spectral and thermal imaging equipment, medical devices, opto-mechanical and opto-electronic products and, finally, products for the aerospace complex.

The plant has a wide production base , which includes: Foundry Tool production Thermal production Stamping and frame production Machining production optical manufacturing PCB manufacturing Plastics recycling Coating production assembly production Welding production

The production has extensive experience in the manufacture of optical parts from optical colored and colorless glasses, crystals, polycrystals and optical ceramics. A powerful production base and highly qualified personnel allow manufacturing optics of various configurations and degrees of complexity. The organization of the production of multilayer printed circuit boards is underway. Packet assembly section: double-spindle high-precision machine with automatic optical positioning, semi-automatic machine for assembly of the MPP bag by drilling and riveting before pressing, semi-automatic machine for milling to a given depth.

The history of the Joint Stock Company "Azov Optical and Mechanical Plant" dates back to February 1946. Then the enterprise was called "Azovselmash" and it was then that the first planned products of the plant were produced - spare parts for the repair of agricultural machinery, dies, cutting tools.In 1947, the plant received an order for the production of watermelon and castor threshers, various parts and devices for assembling combines and tractors.

Since 1949, the enterprise has begun serial production of defense products - mines and anti-tank grenades - and received the name "State Union Plant Mailbox No. 1". New workshops were created: forging and pressing, galvanic and assembly.

In August 1960, in accordance with the decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the plant began to form as an optical-mechanical plant. Since that moment, new productions have been developed: precision mechanics, optics, electronics. Specialized laboratories, a powerful design bureau are being created, and industrial construction is being carried out. This decade was also marked by the development of optical-mechanical instruments for civil purposes: 1962 - mine interferometers, 64 - steeloscopes, 67 - monochromators.

There is a development of a group of consumer goods. These are various modifications of amateur film projectors, household electric bells, door peepholes, etc. In 1966, the enterprise was renamed into "Azov Optical and Mechanical Plant". Since that time, a new page has opened in the history of the plant, connected with the development and production of products for the country's aerospace complex .

In the 1970s, 35 new civilian products were mastered: excitation sources for atomic spectra, thermal imagers for medical research and scientific work, digital display units, spectral and copier devices for laboratory analysis and research, and devices for the coal industry and mechanical engineering. The plant already produces 60 types of products, 10 of which are certified for the State Quality Mark, including the SHI-10 mine interferometer and the SL-12 steeloscope. Household lamps and household optics, souvenirs appear among consumer goods.

In 1976, the plant was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor for merits in the creation and development of new equipment. In the 1980s, a Fourier spectrometer and a light pulse source were developed and put into production. Photo enlargers of the brand "Azov", "Don", photo illuminator "Photon", slide projector "Sputnik-2", rotary and wheel supports, spectrometers are produced. In 1984, a novelty appears - the Raduga thermal imager, designed for medical research.

In 1988, the Azov Optical and Mechanical Plant received the status of a production association. It includes the head enterprise, the central design bureau, factories in Baku and Rostov-on-Don, and the Spektr production in the Rostov region.

In 1991, in accordance with the agreement on technical cooperation between PA "AOMZ" and the Japanese company "Yamato", the association starts the production of ultra- and high-speed industrial sewing overlock sewing machines. Within 3 years, the transition to in-house production of all components and parts of the overlock is carried out. At the moment, the plant is mastering and producing new models of Yamato-AOMZ sewing machines. In some years, the export of stitching and overcasting machines produced by the plant reaches 80%.

In 1993, the development and production of a beet harvesting complex began, and later the plant mastered the production of a number of agricultural machines: a precision seed sowing machine, tractor sprayers. In 1997, based on the production of sewing machines, the enterprise developed a portable machine for sewing up filled bags made of jute, hemp, cotton, linen fabrics, paper, plastic, etc.

On May 9, 2004, by the Decree of the President of Russia, FSUE "PO" AOMZ "became part of the JSC "Corporation" Tactical Missile Weapons ". The entry into the structure entailed the corporatization of the enterprise, determined the priority areas of activity.

On December 15, 2004, the plant changed its organizational and legal form, becoming an open joint stock company. On November 5, 2015, in connection with bringing the constituent documents of the Company in line with the norms of Chapter 4 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation (as amended by the Federal Law of 05.05.2014 N 99-FZ) in terms of changing the legal form of the Company, the plant changed the legal form, becoming a joint-stock company.

Night vision goggles “Darkos-NGB / 1” are supplied complete with night vision binoculars “Darkos-NB / 2”, which is mounted on a comfortable helmet-mask, fixed on the head. The device of the helmet-mask allows you to adjust the position of the glasses relative to the eyes and provides them with a quick tilt with fixation in a vertical position. The glasses can be used like binoculars. To do this, they are equipped with interchangeable long-focus lenses that provide greater magnification and increased viewing range. When using a lens with a magnification of 3.2x, the device is a darkos-NB / 2-3.2 night binocular, supplied separately.

Goggles “Darkos-NGB / 2” are designed for night observation while traveling by motor transport, for sea and river maneuvers in the dark, for astronomical research. The glasses are distinguished by their light weight and size, variable distance between the eyepieces, refocusing lenses and ease of use. The goggles are fixed on a helmet-mask attached to the head. For “absolute darkness” a special lighting system is provided. The device is designed in a waterproof case.

The binoculars “Darkos-NPB / 2-4” are designed on the basis of the “2+”, “super 2+” and “3” generations of an electro-optical converter (EOC) with an increased sensitivity of a multi-alkaline photocathode, high brightness amplification and a built-in high voltage power supply. The device is equipped with high-quality lenses and a special eyepiece system, which provides high-quality images with an even distribution of resolution throughout the entire field of view of the device. The binoculars have an automatic brightness control system and a device to protect the device and human eyes from light flashes.

The Night vision monocular “Darkos-NM / 3-3” is made in a plastic case “Praktik” made of impact-resistant plastic. The built-in infrared illuminator is harmless to health and ensures observation in complete darkness. The device is made on an image intensifier with a large photocathode, which provides a high-quality image of the observed objects. It is possible to use interchangeable high-quality lenses providing 1x, 2x, 3x magnification. Special seals and gaskets make the device water resistant. Finishing pushbuttons provide separate activation of the night vision device and the infrared illuminator.

The primary mission of «Darkos, Inc.» consists of elaboration of new high technologies and of creation on this basis of industrial output of night vision devices and optical electronic transformers for the needs of law enforcement, defense and security agencies. Technological and engineering potential of the company has no equals except a few leading manufacturers of night vision devices in the world, located in the USA, Israel and Holland. This fact tells of the high potency of the newly created company.

The Joint Stock Company «DARKOS» represents a consolidated association of partners, linked in-between not only by the frames of their status of share holders, but by far more essential factors such as reciprocal penetration of production, technological and research interests, stemming from mighty economic and financial philosophy of the company. This philosophy is supported by the findings about corporate prospects and consumption capacity of both domestic and international markets.

Under the terms of to-days economic situation extremely meaningful is the fact that «Darkos, Inc.» as an export oriented company has manufacturing and technological processes which form an internal circle of self sufficient production lines with 100% duplication. This fact assures the fulfillment of all the contract obligations of the company.

Commenting upon the financial and commodity possibilities of «Darkos, Inc.» to operate in the market of night vision devices and technologies, one can say with confidence that «Darkos, Inc.», though the company is not a monopolist, plays a significant role and may affect the market situation with regard to both professional and non-professional night vision devices.

Technical policy of the Joint Stock Company «Darkos» made it possible not only to use production and research potentialities more efficiently and to secure work load for Moscow and regional production sites in Russia, but it also gave an opportunity to create additional work places along with high rate production profitability for all its founders.

JSC "KOMZ" - one of the leading enterprises in the optical industry of the Russian Federation - offers products that are widely used in the defense and food industries, in agriculture and security services, in geodesy and geology, in medicine and environmental protection, in work authorities of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Kazan Optical and Mechanical Plant ( KOMZ ) is a Russian diversified enterprise specializing in the development and production of optical devices. The full name of the enterprise is Joint Stock Company Kazan Optical and Mechanical Plant. Located in the village of Derbyshki, Sovietsky district of the city of Kazan , Tatarstan. Since 2015, Stella-K JSC has been operating on the territory of the enterprise, which is engaged in the serial production of electronic warfare equipment.

JSC KOMZ is a Russian diversified enterprise specialising in the development and production of optical devices and electronic warfare equipment (including radars, binoculars, etc.). JSC KOMZ produces Moscow-1, Rychag-AV and Quicksilver-BM electronic warfare systems that are being delivered to the Russian Armed Forces and which are used in the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.

KOMZ JSC supplies its products to all regions of the Russian Federation, countries of the Customs Union and abroad. The production has organized a multi-stage quality control of products and has implemented, certified and effectively operates a quality management system (QMS) that meets the requirements of GOST R ISO 9001-2015, GOST RV 0015-002-2012, GOST R 58876-2020.

In 1935, the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR decided to build a new large optical-mechanical plant - an understudy GOMZ in the Volga region. A commission has been set up to select a site for the construction of a new plant,

On October 11, 1936, the Council of Labor and Defense of the USSR adopts a resolution on the construction of a new optical-mechanical plant - an understudy of the Leningrad State Optical-Mechanical Plant (GOMZ) (currently LOMO OJSC) - on the site of a former carriage building plant in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic at 18 km from Kazan. In Kazan at that time there were labor reserves, several technical universities trained qualified specialists, there was an established railway and water connection and a prepared site for the construction of Vagonstroy. The design of the plant was entrusted to Lengiprommash, and GOMZ was entrusted with providing the future plant with documentation and training personnel.

On February 3, 1937, the plant under construction was assigned the number 237, in June the Construction Department was organized, the head of which was Olshansky Vladimir Leonardovich. In the same year, along with the factory buildings, the construction of adobe barracks, two-story wooden houses and school No. 101 began. In December 1939, building 7 (mechanical shop No. 7) was commissioned, in which 25 pieces of equipment for the production of periscope tubes were installed.

On February 8, 1940, the People's Commissariat of Finance of the USSR registered the plant as operating, assigning it No. 237. This date is considered the day the plant was founded. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War , on July 11, 1941, the Decree of the State Defense of the USSR No. GKO-99ss was issued on the evacuation of industrial enterprises, including plant No. 349 (GOMZ) to the site of plant No. 237 of the People's Commissariat of Arms under construction in the Tatar ASSR.

From July to August 1941, 7 echelons with people and equipment arrived at the plant. 1284 workers and 327 engineers and their families arrived. On August 31, 1941, the last 7th echelon with equipment and employees of GOMZ arrives in Kazan. Director of GOMZ A.F. Solovyov, chief designer P.S. Konev, chief technologist M.A. Minkov come with him. Together with the evacuees, the staff of plant No. 237 is 3.5 thousand people. Two months after the arrival of the first echelon with Gomzovites, the first among all the evacuated factories in the industry, factory produced the first products for the front - 5,000 binoculars assembled from parts of unfinished production brought from Leningrad.

September 16, 1941 - order of the NKV No. 451 on merging with GOMZ and assigning the plant in Kazan No. 349. Andrey Fedorovich Solovyov is appointed director of the plant. In December 1941, the plant gave the front mortar and tank sights, and from the beginning of 1942 - the "famous" Hertz PG panorama artillery sight, which became the plant's "crown" products throughout the war years.

on July 21, 1942 - by order of the NKV, the plant returns to number 237, under which it was built, GOMZ (in Leningrad) remains at number 349. In 1943, the plant already produced 43 types of products, of which 10 were in large series - binoculars , marine rangefinders , photographic lenses , photo control devices, mortar and tank sights, including the Hertz "PG" artillery panorama , sights for dive bombers PBL-2 , simulators.

By the end of the war, thanks to the introduction of the first overhead conveyor in the USSR for the assembly of binoculars with a given production rhythm, the production of binoculars was increased to 25,000 pieces per month.

At the beginning of 1945, 5663 people worked at the plant, of which 50.6% were under the age of 18. During the war years, the plant was awarded the Challenge Red Banner of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the State Defense Committee 17 times, and in 1946 it was awarded forever; 198 employees of the plant were awarded orders and a large group - medals. In total, during the war years, the plant sent to the front 700,000 binoculars, 30,000 gun, mortar, tank and about 1,000 bomber sights, On September 16, 1945, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the plant was awarded the Order of Lenin for outstanding services in the uninterrupted supply of field artillery, the Navy and aviation with optical instruments.

In the post-war years, the range of products changed significantly, the production of military equipment was significantly reduced. In 1946-47, binoculars 6x30, several types of magnifiers and lenses were produced. The plant is mastering the production of interferometers , astronomical and projection instruments , aerial photographic equipment for the air force, filming equipment, refractometers based on microfilming and electrophotographic equipment.

March 1951 - by order of the Ministry, an experimental design bureau (OKB) was organized at the plant. 1951 - the plant is renamed into mailbox No. 157. March 6, 1966 - an order was issued by the Minister of Defense Industry to replace the name with "Kazan Optical and Mechanical Plant"

The wide-field telescope-spectrograph "Lira", manufactured by "KOMZ", from the spacecraft "Soyuz-13", ensured the receipt of unique ultraviolet spectrograms of stars in various parts of the starry sky (December 1973). At the Salyut-3 space station, the Sokol all-round viewing periscope (manufactured by KOMZ) is operated for panoramic observation of outer space and observation of astronauts outside the ship, external elements of the station structure (1975). The onboard submillimeter telescope BST-1 with a primary mirror diameter of 1.5 m (1977), developed and manufactured at KOMZ-e, was installed on the Salyut-6 space station. Work has begun on the creation of a multi-purpose electronic instrument complex "Pion-K" for long-term manned stations such as "Salyut" and "Mir"

June 1987 - the plant has a new status - Production Association "Kazan Optical and Mechanical Plant". August 16, 1996 - the plant was corporatized in the State Property Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan as JSC "Kazan Optical and Mechanical Plant", KOMZ JSC remains the only serial manufacturer of daytime observation equipment in Russia.

The US Department of Commerce amended the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) effective May 19, 2023 by adding seventy-one entities to the Entity List. These entities have been determined by the U.S. Government to be acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. The Entity List identifies entities for which there is reasonable cause to believe, based on specific and articulable facts, that the entities have been involved, are involved, or pose a significant risk of being or becoming involved in activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.

On 16 December 2022 the European Union expanded the list of entities connected to Russia’s military and industrial complex, on whom tighter export restrictions regarding dual-use goods and technology as well as goods and technology which might contribute to the technological enhancement of Russia’s defence and security sector are imposed by adding 168 new entities. JSC KOMZ is responsible for supporting materially actions, which undermined or threatened the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. JSC KOMZ benefits from the war of aggression of Russia against Ukraine as it contributes to the supply of electronic warfare systems for the Russian Armed Forces and thus benefits directly from the growing need for arms. Due to the growing need for arms, JSC KOMZ is benefitting from the Government of the Russian Federation, which is responsible for the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine.

In the field of production of military products, positive trends are observed. In recent years, the volume of the State Defense Order has increased significantly. Today, delivery under the state defense order plays one of the significant roles in the formation of the main, profitable indicators of this area. The export of special products is also very important for the company.

JSC LOMO is the leading Russian enterprise in the production of optical, optoelectronic, opto-digital and opto-mechanical devices and systems. Currently, LOMO JSC maintains leadership in a number of areas of high-tech optical instrumentation: optical microscopy, medical endoscopy, thermal imaging equipment, optoelectronic surveillance systems for various purposes, ground-based and space telescope construction, eye-safe range laser systems, as well as in a number of areas of special application.

JSC LOMO successfully works in the field of manufacturing optical parts and components by order of head enterprises producing space and military equipment, parts with aspherical surfaces, ground-based optical systems, professional and amateur astronomy, manufacturing lenses for image visualization systems and for endoscopy. There is a steady demand for optical products using crystal optics and materials with special properties. JSC "LOMO" has an assembly plant for optical systems for the production of high-precision optical components and devices from prototypes to mass production.

The company produces a wide range of optical parts and components, from micro- to unique large-sized optics, including high-quality lenses operating in the infrared, ultraviolet and visible range for various purposes. According to the technical specifications of customers, LOMO JSC develops and completes the production of optical assemblies and components. Serial production of a line of high-aperture cinema lenses for professional film cameras is underway, and developments are underway to expand the functionality of the manufactured optics, allowing films to be shot in a wide-screen format, which corresponds to the most modern trends in the development of film production.

LOMO is actively engaged in promoting its products to the world markets. A significant volume of the company's sales is export deliveries. Today, LOMO products are sold in dozens of countries around the world. LOMO has certificates confirming the compliance of the company's quality system with the international standard.

Currently, LOMO maintains leadership in a number of areas of high-tech optical instrumentation: optical microscopy, medical endoscopy, thermal imaging equipment, optoelectronic surveillance systems for various purposes, ground-based and space telescope construction, eye-safe range laser systems, as well as in a number of special applications . Priority areas in the field of product development are: the creation of competitive products for traditional and new instrumentation areas, including opto-electronic and opto-digital systems of new generations and an increase in the level of demand for products.

On February 4, 1914, when the "Russian Joint-Stock Company of Optical and Mechanical Production" was created, the history of the first Russian company producing optical-mechanical and optoelectronic devices began. The enterprise was created, grew and developed in a very difficult historical period and throughout its journey has always occupied a special place in industry, economy and in the history of our state. From the first years of its existence, the plant built in St. Petersburg on Chugunnaya Street began to develop, manufacture and supply products for the Russian army and navy: artillery sights, stereo tubes, detonator tubes for gun shells.

LOMO has always had special, complex, sometimes almost impossible goals, but the company's staff successfully coped with any tasks. Thanks to a clear organization and well-coordinated work of employees, the enterprise very quickly becomes the flagship of the Soviet industry. LOMO products are classified as high-tech products. The enterprise is constantly developing civil instrumentation - microscopy, telescope construction, medical endoscopy, production of observation and night vision devices, spectral instrumentation, as well as the production of meteorological equipment.

Today, LOMO's main products are: microscopes and microvisors for medicine, education, metallurgy, forensics, etc.; flexible endoscopes; observation devices (spotting scopes, telescopes, night vision devices, optical sights); instruments for monitoring weather conditions at airports; eye-safe lasers; special equipment for the Armed Forces.

LOMO has come a long and glorious path, becoming a well-known enterprise not only in our city and country, but also far abroad. LOMO products have always been distinguished by high quality, based on the unique professional ability of the workforce to create the most complex products. LOMO, having vast experience, continues to achieve success, sets new goals and achieves its goals. Now LOMO is a modern optoelectronic company aimed at the future.

The Lytkarino Optical Glass Plant is a major producer of optical glass and precision optical instruments for the military as well as for the civilian market, producing night vision devices and glass laser optics. JSC "Lytkarinsky plant of optical glass" (JSC LZOS - Lytkarinsky zavod opticheskogo stekla) is a large enterprise of the Russian industry, which is part of the Holding JSC "Shvabe" of the State Corporation Rostec. Lytcarino Optical Glass Factory has started its history since 1939 from a small plant of mirror reflectors. As the result of 60-years the factory has reached the world quality of its production, and at present it is acknowleged as a leader in optical material manufacture for different regions of science and technology of the Russian Federation.

JSC LZOS is a leading Russian manufacturer of optical glass and fiberglass, large-sized astronomical mirrors, space lenses, various optical parts and devices. JSC LZOS produces almost 95% of the optical materials needed by hundreds of research institutes, design bureaus and enterprises in Russia that develop and manufacture optical, opto-mechanical and opto-electronic devices and systems.

JSC LZOS has all the technological stages that provide a full cycle of manufacturing optical devices. The plant has testing equipment that ensures all types of tests, including unique ones - in a 70-meter vacuum chamber, the largest in Europe. All optical devices manufactured and produced in Russia are equipped with optical glass optics of JSC LZOS.

One of the important activities of JSC LZOS is the development and production of optical and optoelectronic devices of various types, including industrial and technical purposes and products for the consumer market.

In addition to the manufacture of optical materials, JSC LZOS is the undisputed leader in Russia and in the world in the manufacture of large-sized space and astronomical optics. All space equipment for remote sensing of the earth (ERS) is equipped with large-sized lens objectives and mirrors designed and manufactured by JSC LZOS.

To date, LZOS JSC has not only not lost the previously created scientific, technical and production potential for the manufacture of large-sized optics, but, as a result of targeted actions, including investments of its own funds, has significantly increased scientific and production capabilities in this area, using advanced computer technologies and modern interference control methods.

Over the past 15 years, JSC LZOS has implemented more than 120 Russian and international projects on the production of large-sized astronomical optics at the world technological level. JSC LZOS supplies its products to more than 30 countries of the world.

JSC "Lytkarinsky plant of optical glass" is a unique, diversified enterprise of the optical industry in Russia, JSC LZOS today is also one of the largest enterprises in Europe. Over the 75 years of its existence, the plant has reached the world level of product quality and is currently considered a recognized leader in the production of optical materials for various fields of science and technology in the Russian Federation.

Many years of production experience allowed JSC LZOS to master the production of more than 360 grades of optical colored and colorless glass. The plant supplies its products both to enterprises in Russia and the CIS, and to the countries of Europe, America, Africa and Asia.

In September 1935, the construction of a factory of mirror reflectors began, and in 1939 the first batch of projector mirrors with a diameter of 1.5 m for anti-aircraft defense installations was already produced. The same year is also considered the year of foundation of the plant. By the beginning of the war, the enterprise already had a tangible industrial potential. Buildings were built and put into operation to accommodate a ceramic workshop, a batch glass production workshop, a workshop for the production of blanks of optical glass and mirror reflectors, for processing and manufacturing silver-plated finished mirror reflectors, a mechanical repair and machine tool building, a central factory laboratory, as well as a gas station.

Such products, at that time, in the USSR were produced only by factories in Leningrad and the Ukrainian Izyum, and the market for mirrors for anti-aircraft and ship searchlights was actually monopolized by the German company Carl Zeiss. Both of these factors, one way or another, put the organization in Lytkarino in a special position with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

In the very first months of the war, the USSR lost the Izyum and Leningrad plants in the territories occupied by the Germans. The USSR was left without key producers of material for the production of binoculars, periscopes for submarines, sights for anti-aircraft guns and other important optics. When, by the beginning of 1942, the available blanks began to run out, it was decided to restore production at the Mirror Reflector Plant.

In 1942, the production of searchlight reflectors with a diameter of 600-1500 mm and armored glass for IL-2, LA-6 and Yak-1 aircraft, viewing prisms for tanks and other products was launched. The pace of output increased, while the increase in energy capacities and the improvement of living conditions continued. In the subsequent war years, the plant produced defense products in accordance with planned targets.

It should be borne in mind that since November 1941, the functionality of the plant in Lytkarino has been suspended. And so that the equipment did not go to the enemy, in case of its appearance, the premises were mined. After the decree of the Council of People's Commissars, the enterprise returned to working condition and during 1942 produced 104 projector mirrors, 729 sets of armored glass for aircraft and several thousand prisms for viewing devices. Over the next year - already more than 200 mirror one and a half meter reflectors, 1580 sets of armored glass for IL-2, LA-6, Yak-1 aircraft, more than 67 thousand klingers and 140 thousand prisms for T-34 tanks and T-70.

The culmination of the Victory is in the memoirs of Marshal Zhukov about the final stage of the Berlin offensive operation : “During the 30-minute powerful artillery fire, the enemy did not fire a single shot. Thousands of colorful rockets soared into the air. At this signal, 140 searchlights flashed, located every 200 meters. Each of these 140 spotlights was made in Lytkarino by specialists from the Mirror Reflector Factory."

In 1946, the organization of the production of optical glass began at the plant. In July 1946, the plant was transferred to the USSR Ministry of Armaments . By a decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, a new specialization of the plant was determined - the production of optical glass based on the use of equipment, technology and experience of the Schott Jena company (Germany), as well as the organization of a new production - complex glazing for pressurized high-altitude aircraft.

At the same time, production capacities for the production of 1200 tons of glass per year were created, which subsequently fully met the needs of the country's industry in optical materials, and already in 1957 the production of machine tools for glass processing was mastered. The second most important direction in the work of the team was the development of the manufacture of bent and flat triplexes for the latest types of aircraft.

Optical-mechanical production has been organized at the enterprise since 1952. The specialization provided primarily for the manufacture of glass-intensive devices such as viewing prisms for armored vehicles and civilian devices, such as: school microscopes, camera lenses, theater binoculars, light filters. Soon, the plant began to provide enterprises producing armored vehicles with optical surveillance devices at 100%, and nuclear energy enterprises with optical systems for monitoring processes in "hot" cells and boxes, as well as for biological protection of the operator. An evening optical-mechanical technical school is organized at the plant to train its own specialists and improve the qualifications of personnel.

Since 1960, the plant has been developing a technology for creating glass with low thermal expansion, followed by processing and manufacturing mirrors for telescopes and space optics. In particular, in 1974, the plant completed the manufacture of a 6-meter monolithic mirror of the Large Azimuthal Telescope (BTA) for the Zelenchuk Astronomical Observatory. The telescope remained the largest in the world throughout the 70-90s.

In the same year, by the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the plant was instructed to organize, together with the GOI, the development of the production of a completely new material - ceramic glass, which has a coefficient of linear expansion equal to zero, in the temperature range from -60 ° C to + 120 ° C with high uniformity.

Since 1964, the plant began to master the production of fiber optics for instrumentation, medical endoscopic devices and image intensifier tubes for night vision devices (NVD). The created complex of production capacities (premises, unique technology, equipment and equipment) made it possible to provide the optoelectronic industry of the country with the necessary fiber elements.

On February 9, 1970 , the Rubin Production Association was established, which included: Lytkarinsky Optical Glass Plant with branches in the city of Feodosia and Belozersk, Izyumsky Instrument-Making Plant "IPZ" with a branch in Kadievka, Nikolsky Optical Glass Plant and Art Products glass "Red Giant", Kuzinsky Mechanical Plant (Vologda region). LZOS was approved by the head enterprise of the Rubin association.

The period of the 1970s and 1980s is characterized by continued rapid growth in the production of all types of optical glass, fiberglass products, optical and mechanical devices for civil and military purposes. In the 1970s, a wide range of new observation devices for armored vehicles was created in the optical and mechanical production, including TNPO-220 with an aiming branch, with light transmission fiber optics elements for reticle illumination. Since the beginning of the 1970s, civil instrumentation has received a new impetus for development.

In 1972, JSC LZOS was instructed to master the production of large-sized lens objectives (CLL) for space equipment for remote sensing of the Earth (ERS). By this time, the plant had mastered the technology for manufacturing blanks and finished large-sized optical parts, had experience in manufacturing opto-mechanical devices and qualified personnel in various areas.

In 1973, the plant began to produce high-precision large-sized lenses for photographic surveillance and object detection systems (space and aviation based). At present, the plant is the only manufacturer of such products. In the early 1980s, the plant produced a large range of special-purpose products, consumer goods, industrial and technical products.

In 1985, the maximum output of optical glass was reached, which amounted to 3600 tons per year. Optical glass production capacities were built up due to the development and widespread introduction of the most progressive highly mechanized production processes, which ensure high quality of optical glass and increase the “yield”. In 1980-1992, the company mastered the technology of high-precision finishing of optical surfaces using computer methods of local material removal by zones and interference control methods.

In 1992-2003, more than 40 new types of optical-mechanical devices were developed and introduced into production, both for special purposes and for civilian purposes. The existing scientific and technical potential allowed the plant to enter the international market in the mid-90s . In addition, in 1992 , a test tower with a pressure chamber UVK-6/70, 72 meters high, was built and put into operation . In 1996, for the first time in the world, a technology for joining large-sized glass-ceramic parts was created. Given the accumulated significant scientific, technical and production potential, LZOS OJSC created a unique production facility for the manufacture of large-sized optical parts in terms of its technical equipment.

In the period from 1994 to the present, JSC LZOS has manufactured high-precision optical parts with a diameter of 500 mm to 4000 mm as part of more than 80 international projects.

In 2010, an industrial installation "Luch-2.5" was created for automated ion-beam processing of high-precision surfaces of large-sized optical parts with a diameter of up to 2500 mm from various optical materials and media, of different types in terms of the design of the configuration of the outer perimeter and the shape of the working surface, with ensuring the accuracy of the shape of the surface of parts in terms of standard deviation (RMS) up to ? / 60 for space, aviation and ground-based observation vehicles.

In 2013, the manufacture of an industrial installation for applying mirror coatings with protection on the working surfaces of large-sized optical parts with a diameter of up to 4000 mm, providing performance in the range of 130-12000 nm, was completed.

In the early 2000s, LFS5 glass was developed, which was largely devoid of drawbacks, in contrast to the first compositions of laser phosphate glasses. These compositions, developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by JSC LZOS together with the Institute of Radio Electronics (IRE), were imperfect and had low values of chemical stability and thermal stability. From LFS5 glass, the production of rod active elements of various sizes has been established. Currently JSC LZOS manufactures rod elements made of LFS5 glass with sizes from Ø5×80 mm to Ø60×920 mm.

Over the past decade, a series of compositions has been developed under the code name KNFS. The main goals pursued by these developments are the optimization of a set of parameters, as well as improving the manufacturability of glass. The best of this series, KNFS3, was chosen for the manufacture of large disk elements.

In 2013, a modern site for the production of large-sized ADE blanks (active disk elements) was launched, which was created taking into account all the features of the production of laser glass. The climatic equipment installed at the site provides full control over the temperature, humidity, air purity at the site, which allows year-round production of laser phosphate glass, which includes: batching, melting, casting, annealing, technological polishing and control. The maximum size of the manufactured workpiece is 1000×550×50 mm. The organization of this production has made a significant contribution to the creation of a domestic facility for controlled thermonuclear fusion as an alternative source of energy.

2015 — Renaming into Joint Stock Company "Lytkarinsky Optical Glass Plant". Over the past 15 years, JSC LZOS has implemented more than 120 Russian and international projects on the production of large-sized astronomical optics at the world technical level. Companies from 46 countries of the world became partners of JSC LZOS.

According to a common version, the village, and then the city, Lytkarino got its name from the Lytka River - so shallow that they crossed it in a drought without getting wet. Actually, "lytka" means - "calf of the leg" or "shin". The settlement is old, the first of the surviving records about it dates back to 1429. They lived there by arable farming, selling millstones and whetstones for turning scythes and knives; sandstones and white free-flowing sands were mined at five quarries.

According to the 1859 census , Lytkarino was inhabited by 400 people, and this number doubled only after seventy years. But in the following years, the account went already into the thousands. This is connected, not least, with the discovery in the early 1930s of deposits of especially pure white quartz sands in the vicinity of the village, which led to the construction of the Factory of Mirror Reflectors - the future LZOS.

JSC "Novosibirsk Instrument-Making Plant" is one of the largest manufacturers of shooting and observation optics in Russia. The enterprise is included in the holding structure of JSC "Shvabe" as part of the state corporation "Rostec". State Unitary Enterprise Production Amalgamation "Novosibirsk Instrument Making Plant" is one of the oldest enterprises in Russia. Being one of largest manufacturer of day light and night vision products our enterprise attracts attentions to scientific and research activities and development of new models and their serial production.

The Novosibirsk Instrument-Making Plant was founded in 1905 to manufacture artillery sights for the Imperial Russian Army. It made a significant contribution to equipping the Russian and Soviet armies during the world wars. The disintegration of the USSR brought extremely difficult economic conditions for the factory. Because military production was greatly curtailed, the factory was compelled to compete on the world market of optical devices.... Today Novosibirsk telescopes are well-known around the world and have earned an outstanding reputation.

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BAt present JSC "Novosibirsk Instrument-Making Plant" is a universal, diversified association with a powerful scientific and technical potential, specializing in the design and manufacture of high-precision laser, optoelectronic and opto-mechanical devices. The specialists of the enterprise participated in the development and creation of the majority of optical and optoelectronic sights, fire control systems, surveillance and reconnaissance devices, within these areas a lot of theoretical and practical experience has been accumulated, unique technologies and precision technological equipment have been created. In the development of recent years, a promising element base is used - image intensifier tubes of generation 2+ and 3, programmable microprocessors, television and thermal imaging equipment with optical-electronic information processing systems.

Main directions of production: Manufacture of guidance and fire control systems for self-propelled artillery and armored vehicles; Production of observation and driving devices BTT; Production of all-day reconnaissance complexes for mobile reconnaissance points, including thermal imaging and television ones; Production of day, night, combined and thermal imaging sights for all types of small arms, ground artillery and grenade launchers; Manufacture of binocular observation devices with large aperture lenses; Production of laser simulators of firing and destruction; Production of secondary power sources for electro-optical converters; Production of high-precision instrumentation for industrial use; Manufacture of amateur and semi-professional astronomical telescopes. The company has a full production cycle, including testing of all products in its own control and testing center. The main strategic goal of the company is the growth and innovative development of business, maintaining and strengthening the organization's position in the market, increasing the competitiveness and investment attractiveness of the business through the stable formation and implementation of a highly profitable portfolio of orders, the implementation of scientific, technical, production and human resources, integration and cooperation within the Shvabe JSC holding, development of production capacities, efficient use of resources and minimization of costs.

A great contribution to equipping with optical weapons during the Second World War was made by Special Plant No. 69, evacuated to Novosibirsk from Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region. In incredibly difficult conditions under the bombing of German aircraft in October-November 1941, the plant moved and in the shortest possible time, located in unsuitable premises, with a lack of qualified personnel (many plant workers went to the front and were replaced by women and teenagers), organized production and began to the production of industrial products in a new place.

The war made it necessary to direct all the efforts of the engineering and technical staff to the development and development of products needed by the front. The plant began to provide optics for all cannon artillery and tanks. Observation devices for artillery reconnaissance and artillery fire adjustment were produced (BST stereo tubes (AST), mortar sights (MP-41, MPM-44), tank sights (PT-1, PT-4, PTK-5, TMF, TMFD, TSh), sights for gunsights (PG), sights for fire control devices (ZVV, ZVG) and a whole range of stereo rangefinders for equipping anti-aircraft batteries (DYA, DYA-1, DYA-4, DYA-6, ZD). , but also managed to organize its production in the quantities needed by the army.

In the process of this hard work, subordinated to the call "Everything for the front - everything for victory", the devices produced were continuously improved (their performance characteristics: accuracy, reduced labor intensity, metal consumption, ease of maintenance). So, when upgrading and replacing the DYa stereo rangefinder with the DYa-1 model, the weight of the kit was reduced from 728 kg to 535 kg, and the accuracy was increased by 4 times.

The plant team led by director A.S. Kotlyar, chief engineer D.F. Skarzhinsky, chief designer S.M. Nikolaev, chief technologist A.A. , chairman of the factory committee Razumovsky I.F., Komsomol organizer Korolev V.A.) showed miracles of labor prowess. Socialist emulation has taken on an unprecedented scale. The movement of the "two hundred" workers, who fulfill two norms a day, developed widely, then the movement of the "twenties" arose, fulfilling the monthly plan by the 20th day of the current month. Already in the middle of 1942, there were about 400 working "twenties" at the plant. The names of innovators and leaders will forever remain in the history of the plant: Sinitsina A.A., Guzikova M.F., Tarakanova I.Ya., Tkacha A.I., Semyonova D.S., Zelentsova G.D., Terentyeva V.V.

During the war years, the plant team won the All-Union Socialist Competition 34 times and was awarded the challenge banner of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, which was transferred to the plant for eternal storage. For selfless work during the war years, 162 employees of the plant were awarded government awards, and the plant was awarded the Order of Lenin by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 9, 1945.

2,525 factory workers went to the front as volunteers. 470 factory workers died heroically. As a tribute to the memory and gratitude to them, who gave their lives for the freedom of their Motherland, on May 8, 1975, the Monument of Glory was erected, on the marble slabs of which the names of the dead instrument makers are forever carved.

In 2015, in honor of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory and on the day of the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Monument of Glory, after its restoration, capsules were laid with earth from the battlefields in which the factory workers died, as well as a message - an appeal to future employees.

The supreme governing body of the Public Joint Stock Company "Rostov Optical and Mechanical Plant" (hereinafter - PJSC "ROMZ") is the General Meeting of Shareholders. The Board of Directors of the Company exercises general management of the Company's activities, with the exception of resolving issues referred by the Federal Law "On Joint Stock Companies" and the Charter of the Company to the competence of the General Meeting of Shareholders. The management of the current activities of PJSC ROMZ is carried out by the sole executive body - the General Director.

The construction began in 1968 of an optical-mechanical plant 2 kilometers from the city of Rostov. E. F. Kuznetsov was appointed the first director of the plant under construction. By decision of the Rostov City Executive Committee, a 13-hectare right-of-way was allocated for the construction of the Moscow-Yaroslavl bypass highway. A land plot is allocated for the construction of a boiler house in the 38th microdistrict. A land plot of 26.5 hectares in the north-eastern district of the city is allocated for the construction of a residential microdistrict for the plant's employees. The construction of a dormitory along the Savinskoye Highway has began.

By order of the Minister of Defense Industry of the USSR dated January 25, 1971 No. 38, the Rostov Optical and Mechanical Plant was established. The enterprise was designed and created for the production of the latest fire control systems in modern armored vehicles. The plant under construction is subordinate to the Research Technological Institute of Optical Instrumentation (Moscow).

On the basis of the production facilities being put into operation on January 1, the main production activities of the Rostov Mechanical Plant began in 1975. In accordance with the tasks facing the plant, by the Order of the Minister of Defense Industry dated December 19, 1974, the Rostov Mechanical Plant was renamed with the assignment of an open name - Rostov Optical and Mechanical Plant, retaining its existing code name. On January 15, 1975, the Minister of Defense Industry of the USSR S. A. Zverev approved the Charter of the Rostov Optical and Mechanical Plant. On January 16, 1975, order No. 1 was issued for the Rostov Optical and Mechanical Plant "On the tasks of capital construction for 1975", which was signed by the director of the Rostov Optical and Mechanical Plant Evgeny Fedorovich Kuznetsov.

On the squares on the street. Frunze, 42, the first batch of the plant's products was produced, including electronic components, electronic harnesses, etc. By order of the director of ROMZ No. 19 dated April 21, 1975, Alexey Ivanovich Arkhipov was appointed head of production. Kuznetsov Valentin Grigoryevich was appointed to the post of Deputy Director of the plant for capital construction by order of the head of the 2nd Main Directorate of the Minister of Defense Industry.

According to the Order of the Minister of Defense Industry, the Rostov Optical and Mechanical Plant was separated from the pilot production of NITIOP. The construction of the production and educational building GPTU-16 for 600 places was completed to train workers for the leading professions of the plant under construction. The Optical and Mechanical Plant was once again temporarily located on these squares.

Number of employees as of 01.01.1976 was 184 people. By order of the Minister of Defense Industry No. 301 dated 09/04/1976, the plant was included in the production association "Krasnogorsk Plant" (Krasnogorsk). Division of the technical department into - design, technology and automation department.

Mastering the functional completed units and blocks of the fire control system of the T-72 tank (head, power supply, activity input unit, range measurement unit, control panels). Development and production of the product "KANP" - a device for monitoring the parameters of night vision devices in laboratory and field conditions.

By 1977 the design department has a maximum number of specialists - 65 people. Conducts design work in the areas of serial support of products mastered in production, modernization of mastered products, such as BID, BVD, BP and the development of new product models, namely: UVBU, blocks of the AP-402 complex.

The years 1977-1978 saw development and production of the pilot batch of the helicopter control system for air-to-ground missiles, Raduga-Sh. Development of units of aerial photography equipment installed on SU-type aircraft, which later received the name AP-402.

The production of high-speed photographic installations (VFU-1) with the speed of light up to 40 thousand frames per second was mastered in 1978. The product is designed to study fast processes. In 1983 the plant started to develop and prepare for the serial production of a qualitatively new high-precision night fire control system (of the Buran type) for modern domestic tanks.

The range of night spotting scopes and their modifications (NZT-4, NZT-8M, NZT-P, NZT-8B) was expanded in 1991. The NP-1 night sight was put into production.

Experimental-pilot production of NITIOP, one of the activities of which was the synthesis of artificial diamonds and the production of tools based on them, was introduced into the ROMZ. Branch No. 2 Itlar of the state farm "Zaozerye" of the Rostov region was accepted into the ROMZ for the further development of the subsidiary farm of the plant.

The production of new night sights (NP-2, NP-3) and second-generation night spotting scopes NZT-10, NZT-11 was launched in 1992, On December 21, 1992, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 721 dated July 1, 1992, the plant was transformed into ROMZ OJSC. According to Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 721 of July 1, 1992, all state-owned enterprises with an average number of employees of more than 1,000 people or with a book value of fixed assets on January 1, 1992 of more than 50 million rubles were subject to mandatory transformation into open joint-stock companies. The privatization of the Rostov optical-mechanical plant began.

The production in 1993 of the NP-6 night sight, NZT-12 night spotting scopes, Timbre country furniture, a whole range of pendant and wall lamps was mastered; The development of a day-night television camera SSD-4M, a digital dosimeter is underway, work is underway to modernize special equipment products. As part of the investment program with the German firms AEG Thyssen, Henschel, FBT and JAR-Kassel Siste, work began on organizing the production of a household coffee machine under the license of AEG. According to the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, they began to transfer the housing stock and socio-cultural facilities to municipal ownership.

The 1st organizational meeting of shareholders of the open type company "Rostov Optical and Mechanical Plant" was held on 20 October 1994. Orlov Vladimir Dmitrievich was elected General Director of AOOT. He was also elected Chairman of the Board of Directors at the first meeting of the Board of Directors. The Alena S department store was put into operation in the 1st MKR of the city of Rostov. The production of Cyclops-22 night vision goggles, Sprut-1 optical adapter, NZT-21BN night binoculars, ALP-7 illumination, Izel-2, Izel-G, and Izel-II medical devices has begun. Development of a set of CDs for the Echidna television camera, the Joker television device, the Unicorn No. 7 night sight, the NZT-14 heat direction finder, and the Cyclops-3L mirror-lens lens.

The company's marketing policy was revised in 1995. ROMZ has moved from retail and small wholesale to large wholesale sales of products, while maintaining an export orientation and business relations with reliable partners. The plant has long-term contracts for the supply of goods to the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and France.

Preparations began in 1998 for the introduction of a quality system in production according to international standards of the ISO 9001 series. An international DQS certificate was received in 2000, certifying that the company has implemented and uses a quality management system and a certificate from the State Unitary Enterprise Tekhnoleasing of TsNIIEISU. As a result of the audit, DQS experts confirmed the compliance of the quality system with the international standards ISO 9001.

The plant revived the tradition of labor competition among workshops and employees in 2000. Every year at the end of August, at the celebration of the Day of the Plant, the results of the work are summed up and the winners of the production competition are determined, the best in the profession are named. According to the tradition established at ROMZ, veterans and winners of industrial competitions and competitions plant young trees in the Jubilee Alley in a solemn atmosphere.

After signing the main contracts for the supply of products with FSUE "Uralvagonzavod" and the Arzamas machine-building plant in 2008, intensive work began at the enterprise. A horizontal milling machining center by Quaser is installed on the progressive equipment section. On Factory Day, the first part was received from the new machine.

In 2012, as part of the technical re-equipment of the enterprise and the introduction of promising technologies, a section of advanced equipment in the machining industry was completed. Quaser and Takisawa machining centers have been installed and are producing products. The use of a progressive tool made it possible to increase labor productivity by more than three times.

PJSC "Krasnogorsk plant named after. S.A. Zvereva (PJSC KMZ) is one of the leading enterprises in Russia in the field of optical and optoelectronic instrumentation, which has been providing development, testing and mass production of devices and systems for various fields of application for almost a century. It is part of Shvabe JSC of the Rostec State Corporation, which unites key enterprises of the optoelectronic industry in Russia.

Krasnogorsk plant them. S. A. Zvereva occupies an area of ??over 100 hectares. In 2022, the company employs almost three thousand people, a third of which are young people. The same number of specialists who have devoted their lives to the enterprise. It produces optical instruments for civil and strategic purposes, as well as medical equipment.

The Joint-Stock Company «Production Association «Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant» named after E.S. Yalamov» (Ekaterinburg city) is one of the key organizations of «Shvabe» Holding being a member of «Rostekh» State Corporation.

Today, JSC «PA «UOMP» is a dynamically developing enterprise of optical engineering, modern science intensive production having wide possibilities for creation of high technological products from development to sales and after-sales support. The developed service-sales network includes 7 affiliates in Russia and 3 affiliates abroad – in Switzerland, China and Belarus.

UOMP has its own design bureau with affiliates in large scientific centers of Russia – Moscow, St-Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Riazan. The staff of researchers and designers is more than 400 persons, including 3 doctors and 23 candidates of science. The enterprise carries out innovative activity for creation of the new and modernization of the wide line of special and civil purpose products.

The plant is awarded with prizes and gratitudes for the achievement of high results and contribution in development of optical industry of the country. In 2004, 2010 and 2018 years the Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant was awarded with a Prize of the government of the Russian Federation in the field of quality.

Successfully realizing the state diversification policy of the Defense-and-Industry Complex, UOMP annually increases the part of civil purpose products, including medical equipment, light equipment, devices for geodesy and optical measurements, security systems. Our target guidelines – achievement of the part of civil products in the revenue up to 50% by 2025 year.

JSC «PA «UOMP» develops and manufactures a wide range of medical equipment, including neonatal equipment for care and treatment of neonates weighing from 500 grams and also resuscitation equipment and devices for respiratory support of patients.

The line of lamp signaling and light equipment includes traffic lights with various options (time reading indicator, pointer, signal for hearing-impaired persons and others), light diode traffic lights and street indicators, street, domestic and office lamps, lamps for housing and communal services and architectural lighting.

The geodetic products of UOMP alongside with optical-electronic instruments include the newest satellite equipment that allows to carry out high accuracy geodesic survey without binding to the line of sight. The new promising direction – security systems: interactive information terminals, distance meter for rolling stocks, position sensors, systems of video monitoring and access control and others.

UOMP has successful examples of products localization via cooperation with foreign companies: SLE Limited (Great Britain), Mediana Co Ltd. (South Korea).

12 medical products of UOMP have certificates of European quality CE under Directive of European Union 93/42/???. The products of the enterprise are in demand on domestic and international markets. In 2020 the medical equipment was supplied for the first time to the hospitals of Oman, Ghana, Surinam and Slovenia, and also there were started regulars supplies of satellite geodetic equipment to the market of Kirghizia. The geography of supplies covers 39 countries of the world, including Singapore, Malaysia, Iraq, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Poland, Israel, Pakistan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Palestine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia, Belarus, Moldova and others.

All over the world on the basis of exclusive distributors there is created a reliable network of service maintenance of medical products and education of specialists how to operate with them.

JSC «PA «UOMP» participates in realization of 9 national projects: «Zdravookhranenie», «Safe and quality motorroads», «Digital economic», «Accommodation and urban environment», «International cooperation and export», «Labor productivity and employment support», «Science», «Education», «Demography».

Medical equipment of JSC «PA «UOMP» is installed practically in every medical and obstetric institution of the Russian Federation and also in the clinics of Europe and South-East Asia. In the frames of complex equipping of perinatal centers in 2016-2018 years the plant supplied more than 9 thousands units of equipment for care of neonates.

In 2020 in order to struggle against Covid-19 more than 40 000 units of respiratory equipment, including anesthetic respiratory machines with lungs artificial ventilation function, respiratory gas humidifiers UDS-Tevlar for ventilators, oxygen preparation units were supplied to medical institutions.

The enterprise successfully implements the projects of complex fitting the objects of road-and-traffic network, urban environment and various types of rooms with lighting and lamp signaling equipment.

In the frames of the program «Light city Nizhniy Tagil» the enterprise implements the contract of life cycle of Nizhniy Tagil city (2015-2042 years) under complex of works for projecting, construction and technical maintenance of the urban external lighting system.

In the frames of the program «Intelligent Moscow city» realization there were supplied more than 7 000 light diode lamps and traffic lights.

One of the affiliates of JSC «PA «UOMP» implements the five years contract (2018-2023 years) for servicing of intellectual transport system of Moscow as to provide trouble free functioning of intellectual transport system.

The history of JSC "PA "UOMP" starts from the company for the sale of optical devices, founded in 1837 in Moscow by the merchant of the 3rd guild, Fedor Shvabe. Shvabe was at the origin of the creation of the national optical industry. By the late 1950s, its specialists made almost all the optical devices that were known at the time: magnifiers and telescopes, binoculars, microscopes, pinhole cameras, photographic cameras and much more.

In the 1890s, Shvabe became an active participant in the international instrument market. At that time, the enterprise's asset had about 100 patents for the original development of devices and instruments, more than 100 prestigious awards from various international exhibitions.

In 1912, Shvabe became a joint stock company, and in 1916 "Shvabe" JSC was renamed into JSC "Geofizika". After the October Revolution of 1917, JSC "Geofizika" was nationalized. As before, the enterprise specialized in the production of optical instruments: aircraft sextants, planimeters, pantographs, theodolites, levels, tachymeters, microscopes.

In 1937, "Geofizika" was renamed into the plant number 217. At that time, it was the only company that could fulfill any order for the production of optical profile products. On 7 October 1941, the USSR State defense Committee decided to evacuate the plant No. 217 in Sverdlovsk. In 28 days, materials, semi-finished products, tools, equipment, an enterprise laboratory, technical documentation and a library of the Shvabe company were completely removed. More than 10 thousand factory workers moved to the Urals.

During the Great Patriotic War, the plant produced and delivered tens of thousands of optical instruments to the front: aerial sights, artillery shells, theodolites and surveying systems. After the war, the enterprise maintained strong positions in the country's economy. In the 1960s, the plant took an active part in space exploration programs, developing optical instruments for spacecrafts.

In 1966, plant No. 217 was renamed in the Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant (UOMZ), which became one of the pioneers of laser technology. In the 1970s, the company produced the first "Fon" laser range finders in the country, and in 1977, aviation stations for laser ranging and target designation were launched into batch production.

In the late 1970s, the factory launched the production of optical-electronic target stations, developed the star trackers systems and started designing gyrostabilized optoelectronic systems. In 1988, the plant was transformed into a production association "Ural Optical-Mechanical Plant".

With the collapse of the USSR, UOMZ reoriented to produce a variety of non-defense products. Like the ancestor - "Shvabe", in the first place, drew attention to the production of medical equipment.

In May 2010, UOMZ changed its organizational and legal form, becoming an open joint-stock company. At present, the Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant is one of the largest enterprises in Shvabe Group.

In accordance with the Federal Law “On Licensing Certain Types of Activities” dated May 4, 2011 No. 99-FZ and on the basis of the Regulation “On Licensing Activities to Identify Electronic Devices Designed to Secretly Obtain Information” (approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated April 16, 2012 No. 314), JSC "PA "UOMZ" received a license to carry out activities to identify electronic devices for secretly obtaining information. This activity refers to a special check of technical means (special check, SP) that incorporates an electronic component base of foreign production and is aimed at identifying the presence of electronic devices designed to covertly receive (intercept) information, both processed in technical means and / or circulating in the premises.

Research and Production S.I. Vavilov

JSC "Research and Production S.I. Vavilov" is a diversified institute engaged in the development, esting and production of pilot series of optical colorless and colored glasses, laser glasses, optical, laser and nonlinear single crystals and optical ceramics, glass-ceramics, refractory ceramics, optical fibers and products based on them.

The Institute has developed and implemented manufacturing technologies for most of the inorganic optical materials used in Russian industry. The materials developed in the Institute are used in optical instrumentation, laser technology, detection technique and dosimetry of ionizing radiation, medical and technical endoscopy. The customers of the Institute are the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, optical-mechanical plants, and research institutes. Products were exported to the USA, France, Czech Republic, Austria, China and other countries.

A scientific school of optical materials science has been created at the Institute, which makes it possible to maintain the range and quality of modern domestic materials at the world level. All products comply with international norms and standards.

The history of S.I. Vavilov State Optical Institute (SOI) dates back to December 1918. In the shortest possible time, a group of SOI scientists under the leadership of Academician D.S. Rozhdestvensky developed the physicochemical approaches of the complex process of optical glassmaking. This allowed the USSR to become independent of purchases of optical glass from abroad from the beginning of 1927.

In SOI, research and development of compositions and technology for glass production was carried out under the leadership of Academician I.V. Grebenshchikov. After his death in 1953, the department was headed by Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences A.I. Stozharov, and since 1966 - the future Academician G.T. Petrovsky.

In 1969, due to the increase in the volume of work and the number of employees, the materials science laboratories of the institute were transformed into the 1st branch of the SOI, the director of which was G.T. Petrovsky.

The glass scientists of SOI have developed domestic catalogs of optical (more than 70 brands) and radiation-resistant (more than 60 brands) glasses, which make it possible to develop diagrams of complex optical lenses that form and transmit an image without chromatic and other aberrations. Since the 1960s-70s, the research topics of scientists and technologists of the institute have been supplemented by a development of optical crystals. A special building was built to accommodate laboratories and manufacturing facilities for the production of ruby single crystals, fluoride crystals, yttrium aluminum garnet, leucosapphire, laser and scintillating crystals.

In the 70s, the institute launched research and development studies in the field of fiber optics. Such outstanding scientists as doctors of technical sciences V.B. Veinberg, D.K. Sattarov, professor Yu.N. Kondratyev, candidates of technical sciences V.Kh. Yagmurov and G.Ya. Kanaeva stood at their origins. Fibers for optical communication, radiation-resistant fibers, fibers for transformation of laser radiation, photonic-crystal fiber materials - this is the list of materials whose properties are currently being optimized by researches and technologists of the "Fiber" scientific department.

When SOI became a part of the State Corporation "Rostec", it got the opportunity to renovate the instruments and technical equipment. Scientists of the institute continue research studies, publish articles in scientific journals, participate in national and international conferences, deliver lectures in universities of St. Petersburg. Among them, there are members of dissertation committees.

Manufacturing of optical fibers and fiber-optic products is a complex technological process which is ensured by the accurate maintenance of well-developed parameters of production regimes. High-quality equipment, long-term experience and great scientific researchers’ potential contribute to attaining fiber-optic products with characteristics relevant to international standards. The key mission of the Scientific and Production Department “Fiber” is the development and manufacturing of silica optical fibers and products for civil and military applications.

Manufacturing of optical fibers and fiber-optic products is a complex technological process which is ensured by the accurate maintenance of well-developed parameters of production regimes. High-quality equipment, long-term experience and great scientific researchers’ potential contribute to attaining fiber-optic products with characteristics relevant to international standards. The key mission of the Scientific and Production Department “Fiber” is the development and manufacturing of silica optical fibers and products for civil and military applications.

Among the latest developments of the Institute in the area of crystals is the technology of creating the most efficient crystal for laser technology. Its uniqueness lies in the conversion of laser radiation in the wavelength range of 1.3-1.5 microns. Since 2018, the innovative method has been used in the production of devices for rangefinder, targeting, surgery and processing of various materials. Exploratory research is underway on effective ultrafast scintillation optical ceramics based on zinc oxide doped with gallium (ZnO:Ga) and indium (ZnO:In).

JSC "Bars" was founded as a Research and Production Joint Stock Company under the foundation of the All-Russian Scientific Center "State Optical Institute named after S.I. Vavilov" in July 1991. The main task assigned to BARS JSC was the development and production of consumer goods, such as optical and collimator sights, night vision devices, etc.

JSC "BARS" over the years has been a developer and manufacturer of a wide range of sports and hunting sights with a luminous mark (collimator sights), such devices as a laser pointer, a night vision monocular on image intensifier tubes of the 1st, 2nd and 2+ generations, night binoculars, night vision goggles, infrared illuminator, tactical flashlight (underbarrel flashlight).

Combining modern technologies, production capabilities and highly qualified developers, Bars JSC strives to create fundamentally new devices that meet the highest quality standards and the latest achievements in the field of opto-mechanical instrumentation. Bars JSC has been and remains one of the leaders in the creation and development of fundamentally new optoelectronic and optical devices.