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Russia: Weapons Facilities: Warhead Components: Molniya Machine-Building Plant Production Association (PO MOLNIYA)

Russia: Molniya Machine-Building Plant Production Association (PO Molniya)

(This file is no longer being updated. For information on developments in the Minatom nuclear warhead production complex, please see the Minatom Closed Cities and Weapons Complex Developments file.)

LOCATION: Moscow
DIRECTOR: Vladimir I. Nikolaichev
ACTIVITIES:
PO Molniya falls under Minatom's Sixth Main Directorate of Nuclear Warheads Production.[1] The plant makes instruments and other devices for weapons and the nuclear industry.[2] In 1995, PO Molniya received a grant from ISTC to develop a damless hydroelectric system.[3] The plant does not handle fissile materials.
Sources:
[1] Thomas Cochran, Robert S. Norris, Oleg Bukharin, MAKING THE RUSSIAN BOMB: FROM STALIN TO YELTSIN (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995), p. 65.
[2] NUCLEAR BUSINESS DIRECTORY (Moscow: IBR Corporation, 1995), p. 53.
[3] "Summary Of 26 New ISTC Awards," POST-SOVIET NUCLEAR & DEFENSE MONITOR, 7/7/95, pp. 7-10.

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