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Yurga Machine-Building Plant

Yurga Machine-Building Plant is a Russian industrial plant in Yurga, Kemerovo Oblast, with wartime artillery origins, a long Soviet defense-production history, and later civil-heavy machinery work in mining, lifting, and metallurgical equipment.

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Yurga Machine-Building Plant was created during the Soviet wartime relocation and duplication of heavy industry eastward. Regional history and company-history sources describe Yurga receiving evacuated workers and equipment from major machine-building centers, sending its first guns to the front in February 1943, and entering the active defense-industrial base as Plant No. 75.

After the war, the plant retained defense work while also building a broader industrial portfolio. Public sources describe production of artillery, mining and coal-face machinery, lifting equipment, metallurgical products, agricultural and utility machinery, and support equipment connected with space and strategic systems. Rostec later described the plant as a city-forming enterprise whose assets included the thermal power plant supplying heat to Yurga.

The catalog connection is clearest for the MT-12 Rapira family. The National Defence University of Ukraine identifies Yurga Machine-Building Plant as the MT-12 manufacturer, while GlobalSecurity attributes the earlier T-12 design work to the plant's design bureau under V. Ya. Afanasiev and L. V. Korneev. The MT-LB-12 conversion appears here only because its catalog record uses a Yurga-made MT-12 gun as the mounted weapon, not because Yurga produced the Ukrainian conversion.

artillery productionmilitary ground systemsmining equipmentlifting machineryindustrial machine building

Notable Systems

MT-12 Rapira, Towed 100 mm smoothbore anti-tank gun, Artillery

MT-12 Rapira

Towed 100 mm smoothbore anti-tank gun

The National Defence University of Ukraine identifies Yurga Machine-Building Plant as the manufacturer of the 100 mm MT-12 antitank gun; GlobalSecurity adds design-bureau context for the T-12/MT-12 gun family at Yurga.

Sources: NDUU MT-12 page, GlobalSecurity T-12 MT-12
MT-LB with 100 mm MT-12 anti-tank gun, Improvised tracked self-propelled anti-tank gun, Artillery

MT-LB with 100 mm MT-12 anti-tank gun

Improvised tracked self-propelled anti-tank gun

The MT-LB-12 catalog record is connected to Yurga through the MT-12 Rapira gun mounted on Ukrainian field conversions; Yurga is not identified as the conversion workshop.

Sources: NDUU MT-12 page, GlobalSecurity T-12 MT-12

Manufacturer History

  1. Plant enters service

    Company history sources say Yurga Machine-Building Plant was brought into service in February 1943 after the first wartime guns were tested and sent to the front.

    Sources: Yumz company profile, Kemerovo Significant Dates

  2. MT-12 production era begins

    National Defence University of Ukraine identifies Yurga Machine-Building Plant as the MT-12 manufacturer and lists the gun as entering service in 1970, giving the plant its strongest direct connection to the catalog's Rapira record.

    Sources: NDUU MT-12 page

  3. Current legal entity is registered

    RBC's company profile records the modern ООО "Юргинский машиностроительный завод" as registered on 20 October 2005 at Shosseynaya 3 in Yurga.

    Sources: RBC company profile

  4. Rostec-era restructuring is reported

    Kommersant reported that Uralvagonzavod and Rostec were weighing crisis and restructuring options for the plant, reflecting the company's later industrial reorganization.

    Sources: Kommersant crisis report

  5. RBC marks liquidation decision

    RBC Companies marked the 2005 legal entity with an FNS liquidation decision in an update dated 13 November 2023, while still listing the Yurga address and corporate-registration data.

    Sources: RBC company profile

Website links
Official websiteRBC company profileRostec news coverage

Public sourcing for the plant is split between Soviet-era factory history, Russian corporate-registry reporting for the 2005 legal entity, Rostec-era restructuring coverage, and defense-reference material for the MT-12 manufacturing link. No headquarters map coordinates were added, and the manufacturer image is limited to a rights-clear logo because no reusable plant photograph was verified in this pass.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Yumz company profilePublisher: IBProm | Note: Lists the official website as http://www.yumz.ru, states the plant was founded in 1943, and describes its current industrial focus on mining, lifting, and special machinery. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • RBC company profilePublisher: RBC Companies | Note: Provides the modern legal entity name, short name, registration date, Yurga address at ul. Shosseynaya, 3, shareholder data, and the FNS liquidation-decision status. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Rostec financial recovery reportPublisher: Rostec | Note: Describes the plant as a city-forming enterprise in Yurga and says it produces the full range of mining equipment for underground faces, open pits, and processing plants. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Kommersant crisis reportPublisher: Kommersant | Note: Says the Yurga plant was built in 1943 as a weapons producer and later reoriented to mining, lifting, and other equipment under Uralvagonzavod and Rostec-era control. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • NDUU MT-12 pagePublisher: National Defence University of Ukraine | Note: Identifies Yurga machine-building plant as the MT-12 100 mm antitank gun manufacturer and provides the basic technical data used for the connected system note. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Yumzlogo on Wikimedia CommonsPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports the plant logo image; the file page identifies it as the official Yurga Machine-Building Plant logo and licenses it under CC BY-SA 3.0. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Kemerovo Significant DatesPublisher: Kemerovo Regional Scientific Library | Note: Provides regional-history context on the plant's wartime formation, first guns in February 1943, postwar defense and civilian production, awards, and Yurga address. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • GlobalSecurity T-12 MT-12Publisher: GlobalSecurity.org | Note: Attributes T-12 design work to the Yurga Machine-Building Plant design bureau, names Afanasiev and Korneev as supervisors, and gives MT-12 production and variant background. | Accessed: 2026-07-11

Produced weapons

Category

Artillery

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

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MT-12 Rapira, Towed 100 mm smoothbore anti-tank gun, Artillery2014 Russia-Ukraine War, 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict +2 moreMT-12 RapiraTowed 100 mm smoothbore anti-tank gunBuilt in: Soviet UnionThe MT-12 Rapira is the Soviet 2A29 modernization of the T-12 family, a 100 mm smoothbore towed anti-tank gun designed in the late 1960s by Viktor Afanasiev at the Yurga plant. Entering service in 1970, its redesigned carriage, MT-LB towing arrangement, 9M117 Kastet guided-round option, and later MT-12R Ruta radar fire-control path kept the legacy gun useful for direct fire, indirect fire, and point anti-armor defense.