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Tula Arms Plant Weapon Systems

Tula Arms Plant is a historic Russian defense manufacturer in Tula that produces small arms, ammunition, and guided-missile related products, serving as a catalog builder facet for systems attributed to the TOZ corporate identity.

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Tula Arms Plant is one of Russia's oldest arms manufacturers, with its public corporate identity centered in Tula and its modern materials presented under the Imperial Tula Arms Plant name. The company site describes it as the oldest defense enterprise in Russia and presents it as a producer of military and civilian goods.

For this archive, the builder matters as a named manufacturer facet for catalog entries attributed to the TOZ corporate identity. Its public reporting and registry references connect it to small arms, ammunition, and guided-missile production while also showing the legal-name variants used across official, sanctions, and reference sources.

small armsammunitionanti-tank guided missilesspecial-purpose weaponscivilian sporting firearms

Notable Systems

Konkurs family

The company's official reporting identifies guided-missile production, including 9M113M Konkurs-M class products produced under contract relationships with KBP.

Sources: 2022 annual report

Builder History

  1. Plant founded

    Official company materials and reference sources trace the Tula Arms Plant to 1712, when the state arms factory was established in Tula.

    Sources: Official site, OpenSanctions profile

  2. Current legal entity incorporated

    OpenSanctions records the current public joint-stock company as incorporated on 2002-09-02 under the Imperial Tula Arms Plant name.

    Sources: OpenSanctions profile

  3. Company notice lists Tula headquarters address

    The company's 2022 shareholder notice gives the organization location as 1A Sovetskaya Street in Tula.

    Sources: 2022 shareholder notice

  4. Annual report highlights military and special small-arms production

    The 2023 annual report describes the plant as a producer of military goods and special small arms and notes guided-missile production under commission relationships.

    Sources: 2023 annual report

Public references use several name forms, including Tula Arms Plant, Imperial Tula Arms Plant, TOZ, and JSC Tulsky Oruzheiny Zavod. The company is sanctioned in multiple jurisdictions, so this profile uses official site, registry, sanctions, annual-report, and Commons sources while avoiding conflict-use claims.

Builder Sources

  • Official sitePublisher: Imperial Tula Arms Plant | Note: Official company homepage identifying ПАО «Императорский Тульский оружейный завод» and describing it as the oldest defense enterprise in Russia; supports the name, official website, and general manufacturer background. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • 2023 annual reportPublisher: Imperial Tula Arms Plant | Note: Official annual report describing the company as a producer of military goods and special small arms and identifying guided-missile production lines and export arrangements. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • 2022 shareholder noticePublisher: Imperial Tula Arms Plant | Note: Official shareholder notice giving the company's location as 1A Sovetskaya Street, Tula, and confirming the public joint-stock company identity. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • OpenSanctions profilePublisher: OpenSanctions | Note: Registry and sanctions profile listing legal-name variants, incorporation date, website, and address for the Imperial Tula Arms Plant legal entity. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Wikimedia Commons file: Tula Arms Plant.jpgPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Image provenance page for a 2018 exterior photograph of the Tula Arms Plant by Celest, released under CC BY-SA 4.0. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Category

Infantry Weapons

Portable weapons used by soldiers and small units.

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