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Yuzhmash
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The A.M. Makarov Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant, or PA Yuzhmash (Ukrainian: Виробниче Об'єднання Південний Машинобудівний Завод імені А.М. Макарова; Russian: Производственное Объединение Южный Машиностроительный Завод имени А.М. Макарова; literally: Production Association Southern Machine-Building Plant named after A.M. Makarov) is a Ukrainian manufacturer of agricultural equipment, buses, trolley buses and trams, wind turbines, space rockets, and satellites. It is a large state-owned company located in Dnipropetrovsk.
The company has been the key missile producer for Soviet ICBM and space exploration programs. Yuzhmash launch systems included:
- the R-5M - the Soviet Union's first nuclear armed missile
- the R-12 Dvina theatre ballistic missile
- the R-14 Usovaya theatre ballistic missile
- the R-16 - the first Soviet ICBM
- the R-36 ICBM (converted to Dnepr rocket)
After the beginning of perestroika, demand for such production declined significantly, and Yuzhmash has been partly converted for civil machinery.
Leonid Kuchma, long-time chief manager of the company, became the Prime Minister and later President of Ukraine in 1994.
- Yuzhnoe Design Bureau - a major missile designer closely co-operating with Yuzhmash
- National Space Agency of Ukraine
- English-language home page
- Makarov Pivdennyy (Yuzhnyy) Machine-Building Plant at the Nuclear Threat Initiative
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