Manufacturer catalog

Barrikady

Barrikady is the Volgograd defense-manufacturing lineage now publicly branded as Titan-Barrikady, known for artillery production and launcher hardware. In this catalog it anchors Soviet and Russian systems such as the A-19 field gun, 2S7M Malka, and Iskander launcher families.

8 weapons

Barrikady traces to the Tsaritsyn artillery plant whose ceremonial laying took place in 1914, and the company still presents itself through the Titan-Barrikady brand and related official pages. The plant's modern public identity is tied to heavy military manufacturing in Volgograd, where official and reference sources place its history, contacts, and industrial mission.

For this catalog, Barrikady matters because the catalog uses it as the manufacturing facet behind a small but distinctive group of Soviet and Russian artillery and launcher systems. The profile keeps the builder context focused on production lineage, corporate naming, and the defense-industrial role visible in public sources.

Artillery systemsBallistic missile launchersHeavy steel fabricationDefense machinery

Notable Systems

A-19 122 mm field gun

122 mm towed corps gun

Legacy Soviet field-gun production associated with the Barrikady manufacturing line.

2S7M Malka

203 mm tracked self-propelled gun

Modernized Soviet/Russian 203 mm self-propelled gun linked to the Barrikady production lineage.

9K720 Iskander

Road-mobile tactical ballistic and cruise missile system

Road-mobile tactical missile family whose launcher hardware is associated with Barrikady in the catalog.

Manufacturer History

1914-06-27
Plant laid in Tsaritsyn
Official company history says the ceremonial laying of the artillery plant took place on 27 June 1914 in Tsaritsyn, marking the start of the Barrikady line.
Sources: Company history, Official website
1944
Production resumed after wartime destruction
Company history recounts that the plant was destroyed during the Battle of Stalingrad and resumed production in 1944.
Sources: Company history
1975
Assigned the 2S7 Pion gun-and-mount program
Reference material on the Barrikady line says the plant was selected in 1975 to manufacture the gun and mount for the 2S7 Pion.
Sources: War & Sanctions company record

Website links

Official website Company history Contacts War & Sanctions company record

Public sources use several overlapping names for the Volgograd plant, including Barrikady, Titan-Barrikady, and Federal Scientific and Production Center Titan-Barrikady. The profile normalizes those variants under Barrikady and keeps ownership claims limited to what the reviewed public references state.

Manufacturer Sources

Official websitePublisher: FSPC Titan-Barrikady | Note: Supports the official company branding, public-facing name, and the defense-industrial identity used in the builder summary. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
Company historyPublisher: FSPC Titan-Barrikady | Note: Supports the 1914 origin story, wartime destruction, and postwar production restart for the Barrikady line. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
ContactsPublisher: FSPC Titan-Barrikady | Note: Supports the Volgograd location and official contact-name variant used for the builder headquarters field. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
War & Sanctions company recordPublisher: Government of Ukraine | Note: Supports the defense-production context and the current company-record naming used to normalize the Barrikady/Titan-Barrikady line. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
File:Titan-Barrikady 01.jpgPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports image provenance and reuse context for the Volgograd plant-entrance photograph; the file page identifies the work as own work and licenses it under CC BY-SA 4.0. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Produced weapons

A-19 122 mm field gun, 122 mm towed corps gun, Artillery

Second World War, 2014 Yemen Civil War +1 moreA-19 122 mm field gun122 mm towed corps gunBuilt in: Soviet UnionThe A-19 is a Soviet 122 mm towed corps gun developed for long-range artillery fire, combining a high-velocity barrel, separate-loading ammunition, and an approximately 20 km range. This entry tracks direct Soviet Second World War service along with conservative modern conflict evidence: pre-war Yemeni Army inventory available to Yemen battlefield parties and a photo/video-evidenced YPG/SDF A-19 in northern Syria.

180 mm gun S-23, 180 mm towed heavy gun, Artillery

1973 Yom Kippur War, 2011 Syrian Civil War180 mm gun S-23180 mm towed heavy gunBuilt in: Soviet UnionThe S-23 is a Soviet 180 mm towed heavy gun built for long-range corps or army-level fire rather than close tactical support. Its unusual caliber, heavy split-trail carriage, and rocket-assisted ammunition gave Syrian and Egyptian forces a long-reach artillery option in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, while later Syrian Civil War evidence shows the type still present in Syrian Army artillery stocks decades after production ended.

203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4), 203 mm tracked heavy howitzer, Artillery

Second World War203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4)203 mm tracked heavy howitzerBuilt in: Soviet UnionThe 203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4) was a Soviet high-power heavy howitzer built for reserve artillery, siege fire, bunker attack, and urban demolition, later modernized as the wheeled B-4M. Its 203 mm shell, slow rate of fire, and difficult transport made it a specialized weapon rather than a divisional howitzer, but sources document Soviet and captured German use during the Second World War, including prominent employment in the Battle of Berlin.

2S7M Malka, 203 mm tracked self-propelled gun, Artillery

2014 Russia-Ukraine War2S7M Malka203 mm tracked self-propelled gunBuilt in: Soviet Union / RussiaThe 2S7M Malka is the late Soviet modernized member of the 2S7 Pion heavy artillery family, built around the 203 mm 2A44 gun for long-range fire against deep, hardened, or high-value targets. Compared with the original Pion, Malka carries more ready ammunition, has a higher maximum rate of fire, and in Russian service has been documented in Ukraine as a long-range fire-support and counterbattery system sometimes used with drone spotting.

9K720 Iskander, Road-mobile tactical ballistic and cruise missile system, Artillery

2014 Russia-Ukraine War, 2011 Syrian Civil War +2 more9K720 IskanderRoad-mobile tactical ballistic and cruise missile systemBuilt in: RussiaThe 9K720 Iskander is a Russian road-mobile tactical missile system that launches 9M723 short-range ballistic missiles and, in Iskander-K configuration, ground-launched cruise missiles. Its documented combat record spans Russian strikes in Ukraine, Syria, and Georgia, plus disputed Armenian use around Shusha in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh fighting.

9T250 transporter-loader, Iskander missile transporter-loader vehicle, Support Equipment

2014 Russia-Ukraine War9T250 transporter-loaderIskander missile transporter-loader vehicleBuilt in: Russia / Belarus (MZKT chassis)The 9T250 is the transporter-loader vehicle for the Russian 9K720 Iskander tactical missile system. It carries reload missiles and an onboard crane for Iskander launch batteries, making it an enabling logistics vehicle rather than a launcher; open-source loss records and strike reporting document Russian 9T250 vehicles destroyed during the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War.

115 mm U-5TS, 115 mm smoothbore tank gun, Tanks

115 mm U-5TS115 mm smoothbore tank gunBuilt in: Soviet UnionThe 115 mm U-5TS, also designated 2A20, is the Soviet smoothbore tank gun built around the T-62 main battle tank. It shifted Soviet tank armament from the earlier 100 mm rifled gun line to a high-velocity 115 mm smoothbore weapon, with manual loading, a bore evacuator, no muzzle brake, and ammunition families that included APFSDS, HEAT, high-explosive fragmentation, and later gun-launched missile options.

122 mm M-62T2, 122 mm rifled tank gun, Tanks

122 mm M-62T2122 mm rifled tank gunBuilt in: Soviet UnionThe 122 mm M-62T2, indexed as 2A17, was the late Soviet rifled tank gun developed for the T-10M heavy tank. It replaced the D-25T/D-25TA line in the final Soviet heavy-tank modernization, adding higher-velocity ammunition, a multislotted muzzle brake, bore evacuation, manual separate loading, and integration with the T-10M's two-plane stabilizer and T2S-29-14 sight package.