Yuzhmash
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Zenit-2 rocket ready for launch at Baikonur.
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Native name
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Південмаш |
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Romanized name
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Yuzhmash |
| State-owned enterprise | |
| Industry | launch vehicles, strategic missiles, rocket engines, spacecrafts, landing gears, tractors, castings, forgings |
| Founded | July 21, 1944 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine |
| Headquarters | 1, Krivorozhskaya street, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine |
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Key people
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Sergii N. Voyt, General Director |
| Products | Zenit, Dnepr, Tsyklon-4, RD-843, R-36, |
| Parent | State Space Agency of Ukraine |
| Website | http://www.yuzhmash.com/ |
The Production Association Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant named after A.M. Makarov, PA Pivdenmash or PA Yuzhmash (Ukrainian: Виробниче Об'єднання Південний Машинобудівний Завод імені А.М. Макарова) is a Ukrainian state-owned aerospace manufacturer. It produces spacecrafts, launch vehicles (rockets), liquid-propellant rockets, landing gears, castings, forgings, tractors, tools, and industrial products. The company is headquartered in Dnipropetrovsk, and reports to the State Space Agency of Ukraine. It works with international aerospace partners in 23 countries.
Yuzhmash operated initially as "plant 586" in the Soviet Union. In 1954 Mikhail Yangel established the autonomous design bureau designated OKB-586, from the former chief designer's division of plant 586. Yangel had previously headed OKB-1 (today RKK Energiya) and was primarily a supporter of liquid fuel technology – unlike Sergei Korolev at OKB-1, who was a supporter of missiles using cryogenic fuels. To pursue development of ballistic missiles using storable liquid fuels, Mikhail Yangel had received authorization to convert the chief designer's division of the plant into an autonomous design bureau. Following this, OKB-586 was designated Southern Design Bureau (better known as Pivdenne) and plant 586 was renamed Southern Machine-Building Plant in 1966, with an focus on the design and production of ballistic missiles. The plant was later renamed Southern Machine-Building Production Union, or Pivdenmash.
Missiles produced at Yuzhmash included the first nuclear armed Soviet rocket R-5M (SS-3 'Shyster'), the R-12 Dvina (SS-4 'Sandal'), the R-14 Chusovaya (SS-5 'Skean'), the first widely deployed Soviet ICBM R-16 (SS-7 'Saddler'), the R-36 (SS-9 'Scarp'), the MR-UR-100 Sotka (SS-17 'Spanker'), and the R-36M (SS-18 'Satan'). During the Soviet era, the plant was capable of producing of up to 120 ICBMs a year. In the late 1980s, Yuzhmash was selected to be the main production facility of the RT-2PM2 Topol-M ICBM (SS-27 "Sickle B").
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