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Plant No. 92

Plant No. 92 was a Soviet artillery-production plant in Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, associated with the Novoe Sormovo industrial site and V. G. Grabin's wartime gun-design bureau. Its public record is fragmented across overlapping English names, but museum and reference sources connect the plant to production of the 122 mm M-30 howitzer and the ZiS family of anti-tank and divisional guns.

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The plant entered the Soviet artillery-industrial base in the early 1930s as the Novoe Sormovo / No. 92 line in Gorky. In 1934 an artillery design bureau led by V. G. Grabin was organized there, giving the plant a central role in Soviet gun design, production engineering, and wartime serial manufacture.

Plant No. 92 is most visible in public weapon sources through specific systems rather than through a single continuous corporate website. The M-30 howitzer record identifies Plant No. 92 in Gorky as one of the production sites, while ZiS-2 and ZiS-3 sources tie the plant's design bureau and production methods to high-volume wartime anti-tank and divisional artillery.

artillery systemsanti-tank gunsfield and divisional gunswartime serial production engineering

Notable Systems

122 mm M-30 howitzer, 122 mm towed field howitzer, Artillery

122 mm M-30 howitzer

122 mm towed field howitzer

WW2DB states that M-30 mass production began in 1940 at Plant No. 9 in Sverdlovsk and, after 1940, also at Plant No. 92 in Gorky.

Sources: WW2DB M-30 Field Gun
ZiS-2 57 mm anti-tank gun, Towed 57 mm anti-tank gun, Artillery

ZiS-2 57 mm anti-tank gun

Towed 57 mm anti-tank gun

The connected ZiS-2 record documents the Grabin design bureau at Factory No. 92 and the 1941 and 1943 production runs of the 57 mm anti-tank gun.

Sources: Victory Museum ZiS-2 Model 1943, WeaponSystems.net 57mm ZiS-2

Manufacturer History

  1. No. 92 plant established

    Regional industrial histories describe the Novoe Sormovo works entering service as a No. 92 machine-building and artillery-production plant in Gorky.

    Sources: NAPP Plant No. 92 history, Oboronprom plant register

  2. Grabin bureau organized

    The plant organized an artillery design bureau headed by V. G. Grabin, placing production engineering and weapon design at the same Gorky site.

    Sources: NAPP Plant No. 92 history, RIA Novosti ZiS-3 memorial

  3. M-30 production includes Gorky

    WW2DB reports that M-30 howitzer mass production started at Plant No. 9 and later also included Plant No. 92 in Gorky.

    Sources: WW2DB M-30 Field Gun

  4. ZiS-3 design work completed

    The Victory Museum describes Grabin's Plant No. 92 design bureau completing the ZiS-3 prototype in June 1941 before wartime trials and adoption in February 1942.

    Sources: Victory Museum ZiS-3 Reference

  5. ZiS-3 mass production at Novoe Sormovo

    The Victory Museum states that mass ZiS-3 production expanded in 1942 at Plant No. 92 Novoe Sormovo in Gorky, with other Soviet plants joining later.

    Sources: Victory Museum ZiS-3 Reference

Predecessors
Novoe Sormovo works
Successors
Nizhny Novgorod Machine-Building PlantNizhny Novgorod Plant of the 70th Anniversary of Victory
Website links
NAPP history articleVictory Museum ZiS-3 referenceWW2DB M-30 referenceOfficial successor website

Sources use overlapping English renderings for the same Gorky/Nizhny Novgorod artillery plant. Alternate names are omitted here because nearby published manufacturer records already own several normalized variants, including Artillery Factory No. 92, Zavod imeni Stalina, and Plant No. 92 Nizhny Novgorod.

Manufacturer Sources

  • NAPP Plant No. 92 historyPublisher: Nizhny Novgorod Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs | Note: Supports the 1932 Novoe Sormovo / No. 92 plant history, the 1934 Grabin design bureau, wartime artillery production, and successor-plant continuity. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Oboronprom plant registerPublisher: Oboronprom | Note: Lists the Novoe Sormovo / Plant No. 92 / Gorky and Nizhny Novgorod Machine-Building Plant name chain and defense-industrial context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Victory Museum ZiS-3 ReferencePublisher: Victory Museum | Note: Supports the ZiS-3 design work at Plant No. 92 under V. G. Grabin, the 1942 adoption, serial production at Plant No. 92 Novoe Sormovo, and production-engineering context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • WW2DB M-30 Field GunPublisher: World War II Database | Note: Supports M-30 design background and identifies Plant No. 92 in Gorky as a production site after 1940. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Victory Museum ZiS-2 Model 1943Publisher: Victory Museum | Note: Supports the ZiS-2's 1941 and 1943 production history and public specifications used for connected notable-system context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • WeaponSystems.net 57mm ZiS-2Publisher: WeaponSystems.net | Note: Supports the connected ZiS-2 catalog record's manufacturer, variant, and specification context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • RIA Novosti ZiS-3 memorialPublisher: RIA Novosti | Note: Supports the local historical context for Grabin's arrival at Plant No. 92 and the 1934 organization of the plant design bureau. | Accessed: 2026-07-11

Produced weapons

Category

Artillery

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

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