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Artillery Factory No. 92 Weapon Systems

Artillery Factory No. 92 was the Soviet-era Gorky/Nizhny Novgorod artillery plant that created the Grabin design bureau and produced the ZiS family of guns. In this catalog it anchors the ZiS-2 entry and the wider Soviet artillery lineage that later became NMZ.

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Artillery Factory No. 92 began in 1932 as the Novoe Sormovo plant in Gorky, later known as Plant No. 92, the Joseph Stalin Factory No. 92, and the Gorky Machine-building Plant. In 1934 it formed an artillery design bureau led by V. G. Grabin, and wartime sources describe it as one of the Soviet Union's leading artillery producers.

For this catalog, the builder matters because it anchors the ZiS-2 entry and the wider Grabin-era artillery family associated with Plant No. 92. Later NMZ references, sanctions listings, and the successor-plant history show how the same industrial lineage continued under the Nizhny Novgorod Machine-building Plant name.

Artillery systemsAnti-tank gunsField and divisional gunsNaval artillery and air-defense hardware

Notable Systems

ZiS-2 57 mm anti-tank gun

The cataloged ZiS-2 entry is the clearest surviving example of the plant's anti-tank gun line and its Grabin-era artillery work.

ZiS-3 76.2 mm divisional gun

Historical sources on the plant describe the ZiS-3 as a major wartime gun designed and mass-produced at Plant No. 92.

ZiS-30 self-propelled anti-tank gun

Reference material on the plant's wartime output links the ZiS-30 to the same factory and design bureau that produced the ZiS guns.

122 mm M-30 howitzer

Later reference pages and Commons categories connect Plant No. 92 to M-30 production as part of the factory's broader artillery portfolio.

Builder History

  1. Plant opened as Novoe Sormovo

    A regional industry history article says the plant entered service in January 1932 as the 'Novoe Sormovo' machine-building plant No. 92.

    Sources: NAPP52 history article, Wikipedia article

  2. Grabin design bureau formed

    Regional history coverage says the plant created an artillery design bureau in 1934 under V. G. Grabin, which became central to its gun output.

    Sources: NAPP52 history article, Wikipedia article

  3. ZiS-era wartime production

    The same history article describes Plant No. 92 as a leading wartime artillery producer and links it to the ZiS-3 and other frontline guns.

    Sources: NAPP52 history article, Wikipedia article

  4. Workforce folded into successor plant

    A 2021 NAPP52 update says the NMZ workforce joined the Nizhny Novgorod Plant of the 70th Anniversary of Victory from 1 January 2021.

    Sources: NAPP52 history article

Successors
Nizhny Novgorod Plant of the 70th Anniversary of Victory
Website links
Official websiteWikipedia articleWar & Sanctions recordNAPP52 history article

This profile merges the historical Artillery Factory No. 92 naming chain with later NMZ references because sources use different labels for the same industrial lineage. The plant was also folded into a successor structure in 2021, and sanctions listings make the current legal-entity context easier to identify than the wartime factory history.

Builder Sources

  • NAPP52 history articlePublisher: Nizhny Novgorod Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs | Note: Supports the 1932 founding as Novoe Sormovo / Plant No. 92, the 1934 Grabin design bureau, wartime artillery production, and the 2021 successor-plant transition. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Wikipedia articlePublisher: Wikipedia | Note: Supports the plant name chain, headquarters in Nizhny Novgorod, parent Almaz-Antey, official website, and the ZiS product list used in the builder summary and notable-systems context. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • War & Sanctions recordPublisher: Government of Ukraine | Note: Supports the JSC NMZ legal-name variant and the sanctions-listed corporate context for the Nizhny Novgorod Machine-building Plant line. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Commons category pagePublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports the plant's Nizhny Novgorod location, inception year, official website listing, and the set of legacy aliases shown on the category page. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • NMZ Logo.svgPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports image provenance and reuse context for the NMZ logo; the file page states the work was uploaded by the author and released under CC BY-SA 4.0 with public-domain text-logo treatment. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Category

Artillery

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

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