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ALTERNATE NAME: Pavlograd Engineering Plant

ADDRESS:
323000 Pavlohrad, Ukraine
Vulitsya Telman, 10
Pavlohrad Machine Building Plant
Telephone: (011­380­5672) 3­13­15, 3­74­61 Fax: (011­380­5672) 3­13­15

On June 2, 1931, an artillery range was created near the city of Pavlograd. In the pre-war years, there was an urgent need for large-scale tests of artillery and aviation ammunition.

After liberation from occupation during the Second World War, the training ground was restored, and in the 60s it entered a new stage of its development - as part of PIVDENMASH. The artillery training ground was needed to perform the tasks of creating rocket equipment, and it was transformed into a specialized production facility - SPO-8 for the manufacture, assembly and testing of solid fuel rocket engines. And now, PIVDENMASH and Pavlograd Mechanical Plant (PMZ) have been working together for almost six decades.

During the Cold War period, which was accompanied by an arms race, PMZ grew, strengthened and, ultimately, turned into a powerful manufacturer of intercontinental ballistic solid-fuel missiles of various types - sea-based, mine-based and railway-based.

With the onset of the conversion period, PMZ actively and successfully began to participate in the development and production of civilian products, the manufacture of components for missile launchers, and continued to master combat topics. Having successfully passed the test of the economic crisis, the enterprise has preserved its engineering and technical base and specialized specialization. Today, PMZ participates in the implementation of new projects aimed at strengthening the country's defense capabilities.

As the main enterprise, PIVDENMASH has always supported and strengthened the principles of partnership, cooperation and mutual assistance with the PMZ team, and such relations will be built in the future.

GENERAL OVERVIEW: The plant machines, builds, and assembles parts and components manufactured from composite materials for aircraft. It is also involved in titanium casting.

PRIMARY BUSINESS: Missiles

FORMER MINISTRY SUBORDINATION: Ministry of General Machine Building

APPROXIMATE EMPLOYMENT: 6,800

PRINCIPAL OFFICERS:
Vitaly Mikhailovich Shkurenko, General Director
Aleksandr Andreyevich Romanov, Deputy Director of Economy

OWNERSHIP: Joint­stock company

YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1931

MILITARY PRODUCT LINES: The SS­24 missile; fuel tanks for booster rockets and plastic ICBM rocket motor casings; parts, components, and assemblies for aerospace systems manufacturing.

CIVIL PRODUCT LINES: Casings for wind generators; titanium bicycle frames; titanium church bells; household food processors; electric buses; trolleys; excavating machines; wind turbine electric generators; electric and household machinery.

KEY TECHNOLOGIES/EQUIPMENT EMPLOYED: Machining; electric and gas welding; parts and components manufacturing from composite materials; electroplating; titanium casting; and assembly.

CONVERSION PROJECTS: This plant intends to produce space launch vehicles, such as the "Space Clipper" system, other civilian rockets; parts and components made from composite materials for aircraft; and electric household devices.

HUMAN RESOURCES SUPPORT: N/A

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION: The plant will support the dismantling of the SS­24 missile. It is affiliated with the Southern Machine Building Plant Production Association.

Sources

• U.S. Department of Commerce, Russian Defense Business Directory, Prepared by: Bureau of Export Administration, 1995.