Votkinsk Plant State Production Association (Votkinsk Machine Building Plant; Russian

Russian language

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 full name: Федеральное государственное унитарное предприятие «Воткинский завод») is a machine and ballistic missile production company based in Votkinsk

Votkinsk

Votkinsk is an industrial city in the Udmurt Republic, Russia. Population: It is the birthplace of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky who spent the first eight years of his life here: today the house of his birth contains a museum dedicated to the composer.The town was established in April...

, Russia

Russia

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. It is responsible for the production of the RT-2UTTH Topol M

RT-2UTTH Topol M

The RT-2UTTKh «Topol-M» is one of the most recent intercontinental ballistic missiles to be deployed by Russia , and the first to be developed after the dissolution of the Soviet Union....

 intercontinental ballistic missile

Intercontinental ballistic missile

An intercontinental ballistic missile is a ballistic missile with a long range typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery...

, Russia's most recent ICBM development, as well as the submarine-launched Bulava

Bulava (missile)

The Bulava |mace]]"; designation RSM-56, NATO reporting name SS-NX-30, GRAU index 3M30) is a submarine-launched ballistic missile under development for the Russian Navy and to be deployed on the new Borei class of ballistic missile nuclear submarines...

 SLBM.

Overview

The company's products include R-11/SS-1B Scud

Scud

Scud is a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and exported widely to other countries. The term comes from the NATO reporting name SS-1 Scud which was attached to the missile by Western intelligence agencies...

-A and B SRBMs; RT-21M/SS-20 Saber and SS-23 Spider IRBMs; RT-21 (SS-16 Sinner), RT-2PM (SS-25 Sickle) and RT-2UTTH Topol-M (SS-27) ICBMs. It also manufactures oil and gas equipment, refrigeration equipment, metal-cutting equipment, castings, forgings, stampings and domestic electric appliances.

Votkinsk was also responsible for the production of the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

 era SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missile and many other well-known designs by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology

Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology

Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology a Russian scientific research institute that was founded on May 13, 1946...

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The company has two separate facilities: a final assembly plant located some 12 kilometers outside of Votkinsk where missiles are assembled, and the main plant, located in downtown Votkinsk, where missile components as well as civil and consumer goods are produced.

External links

• Votkinsk Machine Building Plant at the Nuclear Threat Initiative