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No. 172 Plant Weapon Systems

No. 172 Plant was the Perm artillery works and design bureau historically tied to Soviet field guns and howitzers, including the A-19 represented in this catalog. Its public history runs through several renamed corporate forms, but its archive value is the same Perm heavy-artillery lineage.

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No. 172 Plant is the catalog's canonical name for the Perm artillery works that appears in historical and reference sources under several Soviet-era and post-Soviet designations. Public coverage traces the enterprise back to the Perm industrial site whose lineage later included Perm Cannon Plants, Plant No. 172, and Motovilikha Plants.

For this archive, the builder page groups the catalog's No. 172-linked artillery lineage and provides reader-facing context for the plant's role in Soviet gun and howitzer production. That keeps the builder facet useful even when source material uses different legal names or transliterations.

Artillery design and productionTowed guns and howitzersAnti-tank gunsSelf-propelled artilleryMetallurgy and machine-building

Notable Systems

A-19 122 mm field gun

The catalog's connected entry for this builder; reference sources associate the Perm plant/design bureau with the A-19 artillery line.

Sources: Motovilikha Plants / Perm Cannon Plants, Labor Valor Exhibition: The V.M. Molotov Plant No. 172

152 mm howitzer-gun ML-20

Local archival coverage lists the V.M. Molotov Plant No. 172 among the wartime producers associated with this heavy artillery family.

Sources: Labor Valor Exhibition: The V.M. Molotov Plant No. 172

45 mm anti-tank gun M-42

Labor Valor coverage lists the V.M. Molotov Plant No. 172 among the wartime producers associated with this anti-tank gun.

Sources: Labor Valor Exhibition: The V.M. Molotov Plant No. 172

Builder History

  1. Perm industrial origins traced to 1736

    Reference coverage traces the plant's industrial origins to 1736, when the Perm site began as an early metallurgical enterprise that later evolved into artillery production.

    Sources: GlobalSecurity Motovilikha Plants / Perm Cannon Plants

  2. Perm Cannon Plants consolidated

    Reference coverage describes the merging of the local cannon and metalworking facilities into the Perm Cannon Plants in 1871.

    Sources: GlobalSecurity Motovilikha Plants / Perm Cannon Plants

  3. V.M. Molotov Plant No. 172 wartime designation

    Archival coverage uses the wartime name V.M. Molotov Plant No. 172 while documenting its artillery production during the Great Patriotic War.

    Sources: Labor Valor Exhibition: The V.M. Molotov Plant No. 172

  4. Motovilikha Plants becomes the public company name

    Reference coverage identifies Motovilikha Plants as the later public company name adopted after the Soviet period.

    Sources: GlobalSecurity Motovilikha Plants / Perm Cannon Plants

Website links
Official websiteContact informationProduct pageLabor Valor Exhibition: The V.M. Molotov Plant No. 172GlobalSecurity Motovilikha Plants / Perm Cannon Plants

This profile normalizes several historical and transliterated names used for the same Perm artillery enterprise. It uses current company pages for present-day location and web presence, and archival/reference sources for the No. 172 / Motovilikha name history. No conflict-use claims are made here.

Builder Sources

  • Official websitePublisher: Motovilikha Plants | Note: Supports the current official web presence and public company identity connected to the Perm plant lineage. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Contact informationPublisher: Motovilikha Plants | Note: Supports the company location in Perm and the executive-office address used for the builder headquarters field. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Product pagePublisher: Motovilikha Plants | Note: Supports the current product and industrial scope used for the builder's focus on metallurgy and machine-building. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Motovilikha Plants / Perm Cannon PlantsPublisher: GlobalSecurity.org | Note: Supports the 1736 origin story, the 1871 consolidation, and the historical designations including Plant No. 172, V.M. Molotov Plant No. 172, and later Motovilikha names. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Labor Valor Exhibition: The V.M. Molotov Plant No. 172Publisher: Perm State Archive of Social and Political History | Note: Supports the wartime Plant No. 172 designation and the artillery-production context for the plant's heavy-gun output. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • 2A46M1 in Motovilikha Plants museum imagePublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports image provenance and reuse context for the CC BY-SA 3.0 photo of a Motovilikha museum exhibit tied to the builder's heritage. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Category

Artillery

Tube artillery, rocket artillery, and long-range ground fires.

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