Manufacturer catalog

Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant

Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant is a Russian defense-industrial enterprise in Ulyanovsk within the Almaz-Antey orbit, publicly associated with serial production, modernization, and support of short- and medium-range air-defense and radar systems.

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Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant traces its defense-industrial role to Soviet radio-technical production at the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant in the early 1950s, then to an independent Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant established in 1966. Regional and sanctions-reference sources describe it as a producer of ground-forces air-defense systems and radar equipment.

The public catalog connects Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant to Soviet and Russian air-defense systems whose manufacturing chain included the Ulyanovsk plant, including the ZSU-23-4 Shilka, 2K12 Kub/Kvadrat, 2K22 Tunguska, and Nebo-SVU radar. Public sourcing is strongest for the plant's corporate identity, address, Almaz-Antey relationship, and broader air-defense product families rather than detailed production shares for each legacy system.

Short-range air defense systemsMedium-range air defense systemsRadar systemsSelf-propelled anti-aircraft systemsModernization and repair of military equipment

Notable Systems

ZSU-23-4 Shilka, Tracked self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, Air Defense

ZSU-23-4 Shilka

Tracked self-propelled anti-aircraft gun

Regional history coverage says the plant launched serial production of the Shilka after becoming an independent enterprise; the catalog uses Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant as one manufacturer in the Shilka production chain.

Sources: Ulpravda plant history
2K12 Kub / Kvadrat / SA-6 Gainful, Tracked medium-range surface-to-air missile system, Air Defense

2K12 Kub / Kvadrat

Tracked medium-range surface-to-air missile system

The plant's history coverage names the Kub/Kvadrat family among the air-defense missile systems it put into serial production, matching the catalog's Kub/Kvadrat manufacturer facet.

Sources: Ulpravda plant history
2K22 Tunguska, Tracked self-propelled gun-missile air defense system, Air Defense

2K22 Tunguska

Tracked self-propelled gun-missile air defense system

Ulpravda names Tunguska and its modifications among Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant air-defense systems, while War & Sanctions lists Tunguska-M1 among the company's main products.

Sources: Ulpravda plant history, War & Sanctions company profile
1L119 Nebo-SVU, VHF air-surveillance radar, Air Defense

1L119 Nebo-SVU

VHF air-surveillance radar

War & Sanctions lists the Nebo-SVU radar system among Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant's main products, aligning the manufacturer profile with the catalog's Nebo-SVU weapon record.

Sources: War & Sanctions company profile

Manufacturer History

  1. Radio-technical production organized at UAZ

    Ulpravda reports that Soviet authorities organized special defense radar production at the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant in 1951, establishing the industrial base that later became Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant.

    Sources: Ulpravda plant history

  2. Independent Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant formed

    The former radio-technical production assets at UAZ were transferred to the newly independent Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant, and the company treats 1 February 1966 as its plant day.

    Sources: Ulpravda plant history, Official memorial dates

  3. Order of Lenin awarded

    Ulpravda says the plant received the Order of Lenin after meeting production assignments and mastering new products, including major air-defense systems.

    Sources: Ulpravda plant history

  4. Joint-stock company registration

    Official corporate-disclosure records list the company's state registration date as 14 October 2002 and give its legal and postal address in Ulyanovsk.

    Sources: AZIPI issuer card, Official legal card

  5. Added to the U.S. Entity List

    A U.S. Federal Register rule added Joint Stock Company Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant to the Entity List as part of Russia-related export-control measures.

    Sources: Federal Register Entity List rule

Predecessors
Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant special radio-technical production
Website links
Official websiteOfficial legal cardWar & Sanctions profile

Public sourcing is uneven: official UMP pages document legal identity, contact details, and civil-product information, while defense-product and sanctions context is documented through regional history reporting and sanctions/export-control sources. The media item is a license-clear image connected to the Almaz-Antey corporate relationship rather than a verified Ulyanovsk plant-facility photograph.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Official company overviewPublisher: АО «Ульяновский механический завод» | Note: Official site for current company identity, website, address footer, and general description as a multi-profile industrial enterprise and major Russian air-defense producer. | Accessed: 2026-07-04
  • Official legal cardPublisher: АО «Ульяновский механический завод» | Note: Official legal card for full Russian name, abbreviated name, registration details, and Moscow Highway 94 address. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Official memorial datesPublisher: АО «Ульяновский механический завод» | Note: Official dates page identifying 1 February as the plant day, used alongside history reporting for the 1966 founding date. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Ulpravda plant historyPublisher: Ulpravda | Note: Regional history article covering the 1951 precursor production, 1966 independent plant formation, Almaz-Antey connection, and Shilka, Kub/Kvadrat, Tunguska, and Buk-family production context. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • War & Sanctions company profilePublisher: Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine | Note: Sanctions-reference profile for English legal name, UMZ JSC abbreviation, address, Almaz-Antey relationship, and listed air-defense and radar products. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • OpenSanctions JSC UMZ profilePublisher: OpenSanctions | Note: Consolidated sanctions profile used for aliases, website, legal identifiers, and source-backed description of UMZ as an Almaz-Antey subsidiary producing air-defense and radar systems. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • AZIPI issuer cardPublisher: Association for Protection of Investors' Information Rights | Note: Russian corporate-disclosure card for legal name, abbreviated name, OGRN, state-registration date, and Ulyanovsk address. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Federal Register Entity List rulePublisher: Federal Register | Note: U.S. Commerce Department rule listing Joint Stock Company Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant among Russia Entity List additions. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • File:JSC GSKB Almaz-Antey headquarters in Moscow.jpgPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Image provenance and CC BY-SA 2.0 licensing for the Almaz-Antey / GSKB Almaz-Antey headquarters image used as corporate-context media. | Accessed: 2026-07-04

Produced weapons

Category

Air Defense

Systems that contest aircraft, missiles, helicopters, and drones.

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9A317 TELAR, Tracked Buk-M2 transporter erector launcher and radar, Air Defense2014 Russia-Ukraine War9A317 TELARTracked Buk-M2 transporter erector launcher and radarBuilt in: RussiaThe 9A317 TELAR is the tracked self-propelled firing vehicle for the 9K317 Buk-M2 medium-range surface-to-air missile system. Open technical and export-system references describe it as a GM-569-based launcher-radar vehicle with four ready 9M317-family missiles, onboard target detection and illumination, electro-optical backup channels in the 9A317E export version, and autonomous firing capability inside a wider Buk-M2 battery; Ukraine-war loss reporting ties Russian 9A317 TELARs to visually documented battlefield losses.
9A316M launcher, Tracked Buk-M3 transporter erector launcher, Air Defense2014 Russia-Ukraine War9A316M launcherTracked Buk-M3 transporter erector launcherBuilt in: RussiaThe 9A316M is the tracked transporter erector launcher used with Russia's 9K317M Buk-M3 medium-range surface-to-air missile system. It carries a larger ready missile load than the radar-equipped 9A317M TELAR but depends on a 9A317M firing vehicle or 9S36M illumination and guidance radar for target and launch data; Ukraine-war reporting has identified a Russian 9A316M TEL operating with a 9A317M TELAR in Kursk Oblast.
9A317M TELAR, Tracked Buk-M3 transporter erector launcher and radar, Air Defense2014 Russia-Ukraine War9A317M TELARTracked Buk-M3 transporter erector launcher and radarBuilt in: RussiaThe 9A317M TELAR is the autonomous tracked firing vehicle for Russia's 9K317M Buk-M3 medium-range surface-to-air missile system. Open technical sources describe it as a six-canister, radar-equipped self-propelled firing unit able to receive target designation, track targets, prepare missile flight tasks, illuminate targets, and launch 9M317M-family missiles; Ukraine-war reporting and loss documentation identify Russian 9A317M TELARs and Buk-M3 launchers as battlefield air-defense targets.
9S36M radar, Tracked illumination, guidance, and target-designation radar, Air Defense2014 Russia-Ukraine War9S36M radarTracked illumination, guidance, and target-designation radarBuilt in: RussiaThe 9S36M is a Russian tracked radar vehicle in the 9K317M Buk-M3 family, combining target illumination, missile guidance, and target-designation functions for Buk-M3 batteries that can use 9A316M launch vehicles. Official Viking export material describes the related 9S36ME radar as handling low-flying targets and transmitting commands to multiple missiles, while Ukraine-war visual evidence has documented Russian 9S36M losses as part of Buk-M3 combat deployments.
2K12 Kub / Kvadrat / SA-6 Gainful, Tracked medium-range surface-to-air missile system, Air Defense1973 Yom Kippur War, 2014 Russia-Ukraine War +4 more2K12 Kub / Kvadrat / SA-6 GainfulTracked medium-range surface-to-air missile systemBuilt in: Soviet UnionThe 2K12 Kub, exported as Kvadrat and known to NATO as SA-6 Gainful, is a Soviet tracked medium-range surface-to-air missile system built around 3M9 missiles, 2P25 launch vehicles, and the 1S91 Straight Flush radar. Its conflict record spans the 1973 Yom Kippur War, where Egyptian and Syrian SA-6 batteries became a central air-defense problem for Israeli aviation, and later legacy use or transfer in Ukraine, Syria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Libya, and Yemen.
9K37 Buk, Tracked medium-range surface-to-air missile system, Air Defense2014 Russia-Ukraine War, 2008 Russo-Georgian War9K37 BukTracked medium-range surface-to-air missile systemBuilt in: Soviet UnionThe 9K37 Buk is the original Soviet tracked medium-range surface-to-air missile system behind the SA-11 Gadfly family, built around mobile command, target-acquisition, TELAR, reload, and 9M38/9M38M1 missile elements. It remains relevant in conflict records because Buk-M1 systems appeared in Georgia's 2008 air-defense campaign and in the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War, including Ukraine's surviving Buk-M1 network and the evidence chain around the Russian Buk TELAR that launched the MH17 missile.
2K22 Tunguska, Tracked self-propelled gun-missile air defense system, Air Defense2014 Russia-Ukraine War2K22 TunguskaTracked self-propelled gun-missile air defense systemBuilt in: Soviet Union / RussiaThe 2K22 Tunguska is a Soviet-designed tracked short-range air defense system that combines twin 30 mm autocannons, 9M311-family surface-to-air missiles, search and tracking radars, and a protected self-propelled chassis. Built to cover maneuver formations against low-flying aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles, and later unmanned threats, it appears in the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War on both Russian and Ukrainian sides, with Russian combat losses and Ukrainian missile firings documented in open sources.
9S18 Kupol, Tracked target-acquisition radar for Buk air-defense systems, Air Defense2014 Russia-Ukraine War9S18 KupolTracked target-acquisition radar for Buk air-defense systemsBuilt in: Soviet Union / RussiaThe 9S18 Kupol is a Soviet/Russian tracked target-acquisition radar for the Buk surface-to-air missile family, built to search for air targets and pass target-designation data to Buk command vehicles. Open references identify the original Tube Arm radar and later 9S18M1 Snow Drift derivatives, including the 9S18M1-2 and 9S18M1-3 radars, as surveillance elements for later Buk configurations; Ukraine war reporting has documented Russian 9S18 and 9S18M1-3 Kupol vehicles destroyed with Buk-family equipment.
1L119 Nebo-SVU, VHF air-surveillance radar, Air Defense2014 Russia-Ukraine War1L119 Nebo-SVUVHF air-surveillance radarBuilt in: RussiaThe 1L119 Nebo-SVU is a Russian meter-band VHF air-surveillance radar developed from the Nebo-SV line for detecting and tracking aircraft, ballistic targets, low-observable aircraft, and jammers. Rosoboronexport advertises it as a 360-degree radar with digital signal processing, while technical references describe it as a mobile active phased-array system intended to feed radar tracks into air-defense command-and-control networks.