LOCATION:
Address: 1 Parkovyy proyezd, Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Oblast, 456208
Telephone: (35136) 3-94-48
Fax: (35136) 6-58-11
Teletype: 624543 AIST
["Kontakty," Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant Web Site, http://zmashzavod.chat.ru.] {Entered 5/16/2002 EL}
HOMEPAGE: http://zmashzavod.chat.ru
SUBORDINATION: Russian Aerospace Agency (Rosaviakosmos)
["Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant," Federation of American Scientists Web Site; http://www.fas.org/spp/civil/russia/zlatoust.htm, 26 January 1999.] {Entered 5/16/2002 EL}
ADMINISTRATION:
General Director: Gennadiy Pavlovich Starikov
Director of Economics: Viktor Vasilyevich Lobanov
Director of Marketing: Vladimir Alekseyevich Konoplev
["Kontakty," Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant Web Site, http://zmashzavod.chat.ru.]{Entered 5/16/2002 EL}
BACKGROUND:
The Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant was founded in June 1939 as a small arms production factory.[1] From 1965 through 1991 the Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant reported to the Soviet Ministry of General Machine-Building. Since 1998 the plant has been under the subordination of the Russian Aerospace Agency.[2]

The Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant was one of the Soviet Union's main SLBM production facilities; during the 1980s it produced up to 30 missiles annually.[3] Missile types manufactured by the Zlatoust plant included the R-39 [NATO designation SS-N-20 'Sturgeon'] SLBM, which were produced in collaboration with the Makeyev Design Bureau (KBM).[4]
Sources:
[1] "Glavnaya stranichka," Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant Web Site, http://zmashzavod.chat.ru.
[2] "Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant," Federation of American Scientists Web Site, http://www.fas.org/spp/civil/russia/zlatoust.htm, 26 January 1999.
[3] A.S. Dyakov, ed., "The Russian Federation's Strategic Nuclear Forces: Present Status and Prospective Developments," in Nuclear Arms Reduction: The Process and Problems, Center for Arms Control, Energy, and Environment Studies at MIPT Web Site, http://www.armscontrol.ru/reductions/ch3.htm, 1998.
[4] Paul Podvig, "The Russian Strategic Forces: Uncertain Future," Center for Arms Control, Energy, and Environment Studies Web Site, http://armscontrol.ru/transforming/podvig.htm, 1998.{Entered 5/16/2002 EL}
ACTIVITIES:
Missile production stopped in the early 1990s.  This led to major financial difficulties at the facility, making it occasionally unable to pay salaries and utility bills.

As the service life of the R-39 missiles aboard Typhoon-class submarines is due to expire in 2003, the Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant was hopeful that a contract to renew missile production would be negotiated. As of March 2000, however, the Russian government had not ordered replacement R-39 missiles for the Typhoons, and the Bark SLBM intended to replace the R-39 was cancelled following a series of unsuccessful test launches.[1] Although no new missile orders have materialized, on 29 December 1997 the Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant was selected by the Russian government to build elimination facilities for solid-fueled ICBMS and SLBMs.[2] 

The Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant currently manufactures medical supplies, manufacturing equipment for polymer materials, gas cut-off valves, and equipment for the chemical and agriculture industries.[3] The plant also produces consumer items including Mechta electric stoves.[4] In addition to civilian goods, the Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant produces a number of small arms types, including the Klin and Kedr 9-mm submachine guns.[5]
Sources:
[1] Dmitriy Litovkin, "The 'Sineva' Will Rise Over the Sea," Nezavisimoye voyennoye obozreniye, 18 May 2000; in "Degtyar on Strategic Naval Forces," FBIS Document CEP20000522000289.
[2] Charles Vick, Maxim Tarasenko, "Russian Space Policy Documents," Federation of American Scientists Web Site, http://www.fas.org/spp/civil/russia/pol_docs.htm, 5 April 1999.
[3] "Zlatoustovskiy Mashinostroitelnyy Zavod GP," Fabrikant.ru Web Site, http://www.fabrikant.ru/rus/cat.phtml?action=company&id=2638.
[4] "Produktsiya," Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant Web Site, http://zmashzavod.chat.ru.
[5] "Perechen eksponatov, razreshennykh k demonstratsiy," VTTV OMSK 2001 Web Site, http://www.vttv.ru/v20.htm.{Entered 5/16/2002 EL}

ZLATOUST MACHINE-BUILDING PLANT DEVELOPMENTS

11/18/2001: ZLATOUST PLANT TO LOSE POWER
RosBiznesKonsalting reported on 18 November 2001 that the regional utility firm Chelyabenergo had warned regional authorities that it planned to cut off all electricity supplies to the Zlatoust plant on 19 November 2001. Chelyabenergo explained that this measure was due to Zlatoust's inability to pay for electricity and its 217 million rubles ($7.29 million as of 18 November 2001) of electricity debt, which is the largest of any enterprise in the oblast.
["Zavodu, proizvodyashchemu ballisticheskiye rakety, otklyuchat elektrichestvo," RosBiznesKonsalting Web Site, http://top.rbc.ru/index.shtml?/news/policy/
2001/11/18/18111548_bod.shtml, 18 November 2001.] {Entered 5/16/2002 EL}
 
4/21/2000: ZLATOUST PLANT LOSES POWER
Aviaport.ru reported on 21 April 2000 that the regional utility monopoly Chelyabenergo had completely stopped supplying the Zlatoust plant with electricity. In addition to the plant, 70% of the city of Zlatoust was deprived of electricity. There were also interruptions in the water supply. Chelyabenergo resorted to this drastic measure after its inspectors were not allowed to enter the plant in order to carry out a partial electricity shut-off. Zlatoust Mayor Vasiliy Maltsev said that while the Zlatoust plant has been recently paying for electricity regularly, it owes 300 million rubles ($10.49 million as of 21 April 2000) because the Russian government has failed to pay for its defense orders. Chelyabinsk Oblast Governor Petr Sumin was outraged by the shut-offs and ordered his deputies to resolve the situation.
["AO 'Chelyabenergo' otklyuchil ot elektrichestva Zlatoustovskiy mashinostroitelnyy zavod," Aviaport Web Site, http://www.aviaport.ru/news/MarketNews/10146.html, 21 April 2000.] {Entered 5/16/2002 EL}

4/10/2000: ZLATOUST PLANT MAY BECOME PART OF JOINT VENTURE
Traktor.ru reported on 10 April 2000 that the Chelyabinsk Oblast government had identified the Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant and two other Chelyabinsk Oblast factories (Miass Machine-Building Plant and the Kyshtym Radio Manufacturing Plant) as potential members of a joint-venture company for defense products. Under this concept, whose authorship is attributed to the Defense Minister, Marshal Igor Sergeyev, the regional administration would be involved in directing development and production and facilitate the placement of defense orders at the plants. According to Sergeyev, the Ministry of Defense would find it easier to ensure state orders to enterprises united in such regional joint ventures and producing finished products than to enterprises producing only subcomponents.
["Chelyabinskiye predpriyatiya VPK v 2000 godu nachnut formirovaniye regionalnoy kooperatsii po sozdaniyu voyennoy produktsii," Traktor.ru Web Site, http://www.tractor.ru/news/0410.html, 10 April 2000.] {Entered 5/16/2002 EL}


 
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