Votkinsk Machine Building Plant
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Production of ballistic missiles.
Unit intelligence profile
Military-Industrial Complex
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Profile summary
Assessment
Identification
This record is best assessed as a distributed Russian defense-industrial portfolio rather than a single fenced installation. The placemarks align with publicly documented missile, nuclear, radioelectronics, and aircraft nodes at Votkinsk, Zheleznogorsk, Lesnoy, Voronezh, Kazan, and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Open-source confirmation is strongest for the main production plants; several subordinate test and repair entries in the placemark list are less transparent and should be treated cautiously. ([nuke.fas.org](https://nuke.fas.org/guide/russia/industry/docs/rus95/v_list.htm?utm_source=openai))
Strategic missiles & nuclear
Votkinsk is a long-established missile-production site; treaty-era U.S. material describes it as one of Russia’s foremost missile plants, and AP reported that a Ukrainian strike on February 21, 2026 targeted the Votkinsk Plant, indicating continuing strategic relevance. The Mining and Chemical Combine at Zheleznogorsk was central to Soviet plutonium production, but Rosatom-linked and industry reporting now emphasizes spent-fuel storage, reprocessing, and MOX-fuel work. NTI assesses Elektrokhimpribor in Lesnoy as one of the remaining Russian warhead assembly/disassembly sites; official plant material confirms it remains a Rosatom enterprise in the closed city of Lesnoy. ([nuke.fas.org](https://nuke.fas.org/guide/russia/industry/docs/rus95/v_list.htm?utm_source=openai))
EW, air defense & rocket artillery
Voronezh-based Concern Sozvezdie is a Rostec/Ruselectronics developer and producer of military communications and electronic-warfare equipment; Rostec has publicly tied it to protected radio-relay systems and newer EW products. Tula contributes a second major weapons-engineering cluster in the placemark set: Rostec links KBP to Pantsir and other precision weapons, while NPO Splav is identified as the developer of Grad, Uragan, Smerch, and later Tornado-family rocket artillery. Near St Petersburg, Almaz-Antey opened a major test complex in 2015 for products from its northwest cluster, consistent with the placemarked KBSM testing node. ([rostec.ru](https://rostec.ru/en/media/pressrelease/4519816/?utm_source=openai))
Aerospace production
Kazan Aircraft Plant is Tupolev’s Kazan branch and remains a strategic aviation node: Rostec reported the first newly manufactured Tu-160M flew there on January 12, 2022, and the plant continued Tu-214 import-substitution flight work into 2024-2025. Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant delivered further Su-35S fighters in 2024 and was still working on Su-57 production, according to UAC/Rostec. The Lukhovitsy plant remains a UAC site for MiG-family aircraft and Il-114-300 work, giving this record both western-Russia and Far-East aircraft production/test nodes. ([rostec.ru](https://rostec.ru/en/media/news/first-strategic-missile-carrier-tu-160m-making-its-maiden-flight/?utm_source=openai))
Propellants, overhaul & training
Kazan State-Owned Gunpowder Plant is a federally owned special-chemicals site in Kazan; official regional material and the EU’s September 12, 2025 sanctions decision describe it as a producer of pyroxylin powders and charges for multiple weapon systems. The former 218th Aircraft Repair Plant in Gatchina was reorganized by UEC into UEC-Service, an engine-repair and service enterprise. The placemark set also includes an active armored-engineering institute in Omsk, showing that this record covers maintenance and specialist support functions in addition to prime manufacturing. ([1997-2011.tatarstan.ru](https://1997-2011.tatarstan.ru/english/set_enterprise.phtml%40company%3D3.html?utm_source=openai))
Geospatial index
Known places
Testing Site of the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant
Mining and Chemical Combine (Krasnoyarsk-26)
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Established in 1950 to produce plutonium for weapons.
Morozov Plant
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Defense enterprise, production of explosives and ammunition
JSC Concern "Sozvezdie"
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The leading Russian developer and manufacturer of electronic warfare, radio communications, electronic countermeasures systems and equipment.
Testing Grounds of the JSC Concern "Sozvezdie"
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The leading Russian developer and manufacturer of electronic warfare, radio communications, electronic countermeasures systems and equipment.
Design Bureau of Instrument Engineering Equipment Production Plant
Highly Enriched Uranium and Nuclear Warheads Assembly Plant
Intelligence briefRF forces
The largest complex of its kind in Russia.
502nd Military Property Repair Plant
Intelligence briefRF forces
Responsible for the repair of air defense systems.
218th Aircraft Repair Plant
Kazan Gunpowder Plant
Kazan Aircraft Production Association
Leading Production and Technical Enterprise "Granit"
Intelligence briefRF forces
Russian enterprise of the military-industrial complex, ensuring the completion of the final stage in the process of creating complex weapons systems (installation, docking, configuration directly at the customer), their technical maintenance and repair after commissioning, as well as disposal after decommissioning. A leading enterprise within the Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern for repair and restoration work at air defense, missile defense , early warning systems, Space Control Systems and other Space Forces facilities .
Khabarovsk Radio Engineering Plant OJSC
Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant
Novosibirsk Mechanical Plant "Iskra"
Omsk Armored Engineering Institute
NPO Splav Facility
Intelligence briefRF forces
NPO Splav - Leading global developer and manufacturer of multiple rocket launcher systems. The only company in Russia which designs and develops multiple launch rocket systems and cartridges.
Lukhovitsy Aircraft Production and Test Complex
Russian Expo Arms
Testing Facility of the Almaz-Antey JSC Design Bureau for Special Machine-Building
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Testing of missiles and launch systems for air defense, Navy and Strategic Missile Troops.