This is a list of computer hardware manufacturers in the Soviet Union :
This is a list of computer hardware manufacturers in the Soviet Union :
Major Soviet hardware manufacturers and ministry affiliations in 1988: [1]
The history of computing hardware in the Soviet Bloc is somewhat different from that of the Western world. As a result of the CoCom embargo, computers could not be imported on a large scale from Western Bloc.
ES EVM is a series of clones of IBM's System/360 and System/370 mainframes, built in the Comecon countries under the initiative of the Soviet Union between 1968 and 1998. More than 15,000 of ES EVM mainframes were produced in total.
ES PEVM was a Soviet clone of the IBM PC in 1980s. The ES PEVM models lineup also included analogues of IBM PC XT, IBM PC AT, IBM XT/370.
LOMO is a manufacturer of medical and motion-picture lenses and equipment based in St. Petersburg, Russia. The company was awarded three Order of Lenin decorations by the Soviet Union.
AZLK was a Soviet and Russian automobile manufacturer (Moscow), the maker of the Moskvitch brand.
Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov, also known as A.P Alaexandrov, was a Soviet and Russian physicist, director of the Kurchatov Institute, academician and president of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1975–1986).
Moscow Metallurgical Plant in Moscow, Russia was founded in 1883 as a metallurgic workshop and became known as the GoujonPlant. It is one of the oldest major industrial enterprises in the middle Russia. In the Soviet era it was renamed after the Communist "Hammer and sickle" symbol. In 2011 the plant was decommissioned.
The State Factory «Production Union Pivdennyi Machine-Building Plant named after O.M. Makarov», PA Pivdenmash or former PA Yuzhmash is a Ukrainian state-owned aerospace manufacturer. It produces spacecraft, launch vehicles (rockets), liquid-propellant rockets, landing gears, castings, forgings, tractors, tools, and industrial products. The company is headquartered in Dnipro, and reports to the State Space Agency of Ukraine. It works with international aerospace partners in 23 countries.
OJSC AMO ZiL, known fully as the Public Joint-Stock Company – Likhachov Plant and more commonly called ZiL, was a major Russian automobile, truck, military vehicle, and heavy equipment manufacturer that was based in Moscow, Russia.
UralVagonZavod is a Russian machine building company located in Nizhny Tagil, Russia.
MAPO - the Moscow Aircraft Production Association was a major Russian state-owned military aircraft manufacturer.
Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant also known as CTZ-Uraltrak (ЧТЗ-УРАЛТРАК) is a construction tractor plant in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.
The M-72 was a motorcycle built by the Soviet Union. Conceived as a replacement for the two heavy motorcycles used by the Red Army—the TIZ-AM-600 and PMZ-A-750—both of which had performed unsatisfactorily during the Winter War with Finland and were considered outdated designs. The replacement chosen was the BMW R 71 which had been rejected by the German Wehrmacht as a replacement for the R 12. As a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact the necessary legal, political and economic procedures were in place for BMW to provide the design, tooling and training for the manufacture of the motorcycle and military sidecar.
OJSC Dolgoprudnenskoye Scientific Production Plant or DNPP for short is a Soviet/Russian designer and mass producer of surface-to-air missiles located in the city of Dolgoprudny, Moscow Oblast.
Kazan Aircraft Production Association is an aircraft manufacturer based in Kazan, Russia. It has built more than 18,000 aircraft of 34 types during its history.
The Ministry of Transport Machine-Building Industry was one of the government ministries of the Soviet Union. Before 1946 it was known as the People's Commissariat of the Tank Industry of the USSR.
Pobeda is a Russian brand of wrist-watches owned by the Petrodvorets Watch Factory "Raketa". The brand name was chosen by Stalin himself in April 1945, when he gave the order that the first watches be ready for the 1st year of Victory celebration. The first prototype came out of the Penza factory by the end of 1945, and the first model for the public came out of the Kirov Watch Factory in March 1946.
The scientific production association is a form of scientific research-to-production facility in the Soviet Union and its successor states, including Russia and other union republics.
The History of computing in the Soviet Union began in late 1940s, when the country began to develop its first Small Electronic Calculating Machine (MESM) at the Kiev Institute of Electrotechnology in Feofaniya. Initial ideological opposition to cybernetics in the Soviet Union was outplayed by Khrushchev era policy that encouraged computers production.