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Plant No. 9 is a Yekaterinburg artillery manufacturer and design-production organization rooted in the Soviet Uralmash artillery works. Formed as an independent wartime plant with OKB-9 in 1942, it became closely associated with F. F. Petrov's artillery design school and with gun systems for towed artillery, tank armament, self-propelled guns, and naval anti-submarine launchers.
3 weaponsThe plant's origin was the artillery production base at Uralmash in Sverdlovsk, reinforced during the Second World War by evacuated industrial capacity from Leningrad and Stalingrad. Contemporary industry histories describe the State Defense Committee decision of October 30, 1942 as the formal creation point for independent Plant No. 9 and its special design bureau, OKB-9. During the war the enterprise supplied large numbers of artillery systems, including M-30 and D-1 howitzers and guns fitted to Soviet armored vehicles.
Postwar sources describe Plant No. 9 as a specialist in barrel artillery and tank guns rather than a broad vehicle manufacturer. Its public product and service scope includes development, production, repair, and modernization of guns for tanks, self-propelled artillery, towed artillery, and naval rocket-bomb launchers. The plant has changed organizational form several times, including reintegration with Uralmash in the Soviet period and re-establishment as a separate state enterprise in 1995 before later joint-stock registration.
The D-10 family is tied to the Plant No. 9 / OKB-9 artillery design base, including the D-10S installation used by the SU-100 and later D-10T-family tank guns.
Sources: Artillery Plant No.9, SU-100 Russian Tank Destroyer
Russian defense-industry history lists the 122 mm M-30 among the well-known wartime howitzers supplied by independent Artillery Plant No. 9 after its 1942 formation.
Sources: Plant No. 9: Creating Perfect Weapons, Artillery Plant No.9
The 2S1 vehicle was developed around the 2A31 howitzer; the National Defence University of Ukraine identifies that gun, factory designation D-32, as an OKB-9 design.
Sources: 122 mm self-propelled howitzer GvozdikaGlobalSecurity traces the plant's roots to mechanical workshop No. 2 at Uralmash in Sverdlovsk, where artillery manufacture began before Plant No. 9 became a separate wartime enterprise.
Sources: Artillery Plant No.9
Industry histories identify the State Defense Committee decision of October 30, 1942 as creating independent artillery Plant No. 9 with OKB-9 on the Uralmash artillery-production base and evacuated plant capacity.
Sources: Artillery Plant No.9, Plant No. 9: Creating Perfect Weapons
Defense-industry history credits the plant with more than 30,000 guns of ten types during the Second World War, including M-30 and D-1 howitzers plus guns for self-propelled and tank installations.
Sources: Plant No. 9: Creating Perfect Weapons
GlobalSecurity reports that Plant No. 9 returned to Uralmash in 1958 after operating as a separate wartime and postwar artillery enterprise.
Sources: Artillery Plant No.9
The plant was re-established as State Unitary Enterprise Plant No. 9 in 1995 after earlier organizational changes inside the Uralmash structure.
Sources: Artillery Plant No.9
The U.S. Treasury sanctions-search database lists Joint Stock Company Plant N9 under the Russia-related Executive Order 14024 sanctions program.
Sources: OFAC Joint Stock Company Plant N9
Historical sources often discuss Plant No. 9, Artillery Plant No. 9, and OKB-9 together. Artillery Plant No. 9 is also maintained separately, so that exact name is not repeated as an alias here.
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Tube artillery, rocket artillery, and long-range ground fires.