Manufacturer catalog
Vyatskiye Polyany Machine-Building Plant Molot is the legacy Vyatskiye Polyany firearms manufacturer behind the RPK/RPK-74 line and the later Molot sporting-firearms business. Its archive value is the bridge it gives to Soviet and Russian small-arms production history, especially factory-made Kalashnikov-pattern light machine guns and related civilian descendants.
1 weaponsVyatskiye Polyany Machine-Building Plant Molot traces its public industrial identity to a wartime arms plant that was officially founded in 1940 and moved to Vyatskiye Polyany in 1941. Local history material says the plant became a major PPSh producer during World War II, then later shifted into post-Soviet civilian sporting arms.
For this catalog, the builder profile exists to anchor the plant name used on the RPK/RPK-74 record and to keep the legacy Molot industrial line searchable alongside the modern Molot-Oruzhie name. The page focuses on the company as a small-arms manufacturer, not on any single weapon entry.
FIME Group says the Molot factory manufactured the RPK from 1961 to 1978, linking the plant to the Kalashnikov-pattern light machine gun family represented in this catalog.
Sources: FIME Group Molot profileFIME Group says Molot created the VEPR civilian sporting rifle line based on the RPK platform.
Sources: FIME Group Molot profileThe company's history article says the plant became the lead producer of PPSh submachine guns by the end of 1940.
Sources: Company history articleThe plant's history article gives 26 April 1940 as the official founding date, when a hardware plant in Zagorsk was transferred into the Soviet arms system.
The same history article says the plant was evacuated to Vyatskiye Polyany in 1941 and installed at the former spool factory site.
By the end of 1940, the plant history says Molot had become the lead producer of the PPSh submachine gun.
FIME Group says the Molot factory manufactured the RPK light machine gun from 1961 to 1978.
The plant history says the business turned toward civilian sporting and hunting firearms in the early 1990s.
The plant history and retailer reference pages describe Molot-Oruzhie LLC as the 2009 successor entity built on the former OAO VPMZ Molot base.
This profile standardizes several overlapping public names for the same Vyatskiye Polyany firearms line: the legacy plant name, the Molot label, and the later Molot-Oruzhie successor name. The public web presence is fragmented and sometimes intermittent, so the catalog uses a small set of corroborating history and distributor references rather than a larger stack of low-signal directory pages.
Category
Portable weapons used by soldiers and small units.
