Open Joint Stock Company "Ural Manufacturing Enterprise" Vector "(OJSC UPE" Vector "). History Civil Products

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JSC"Ural manufacturing enterprise"Vector"

The plant originates from mechanical workshops at the General Staff of the Russian Army in St. Petersburg, which were created in 1811. This year, the project of Doctor of Astronomy and Physics Corneille Reissig was approved on the creation of mechanical workshops at the Quartermaster unit (Managing Adjutant General Prince P M. Volkonsky) in the structure of the Military Topographic Depot in Saint Petersburg. The workshop began producing mathematical and geodetic instruments for the Quartermaster, Map Depot and the Engineering Department.

The year 1811 is the official date of creation and the beginning of the activity of the mechanical workshop, which became the date of birth of JSC UPP Vector.

According to a well-known military surveyor, the workshop in full complement was under the main command of the Minister of War throughout the continuation of the campaigns against the Emperor Napoleon. The mechanical workshop reached its greatest prosperity in the 40-50s of the nineteenth century. Optical-mechanical instruments made in the Workshop were very popular. At the exhibitions, the Workshop instruments have repeatedly received diplomas and incentive prizes. Compasses, beakers and cypragels of the last sample were sent to the World Exhibition in 1874 in Vienna. For the exhibition in 1882 - levels, small beakers. For the 1896 exhibition - beakers, levels, compasses and barometers. The mechanical workshop was located in St. Petersburg until 1918. She had to evacuate to Tashkent, where she worked for 6 years.

In 1918 the workshop was transferred to Tashkent. During this period, on the basis of the workshop, shock tubes for projectiles, steering shells for screw cartridges, equipment for the Kauninsky gunpowder plant, shuttles for weaving and sewing machines of the Voenzaga enterprise were manufactured; repair and install methographic machines for printing banknotes (Turkbon), prostheses for war invalids.

In 1923 the workshop was relocated to Moscow. In 1925 the workshop was renamed into the Geodesy precision mechanics factory, which became part of the Geokartprom trust. In 1927 she received the 1st degree Diploma at the lighting exhibition in Moscow at the Polytechnic Museum. In 1933 it received the status of the Geodesy plant. The plant continued the production of optical devices, repairs cameras of the "POTTE" system, begins production of Soviet cameras "Leika" and aerial cameras.

In 1940, the Geodesy plant was renamed into the Union State Plant No. 356 of the 2nd Main Directorate of the USSR People's Commissar of Armament.

In August 1941, the plant was evacuated from Moscow to Sverdlovsk, and on October 1, 1941, it dispatched the first products for the needs of the Army.

October 01, 1941 is the official date of the beginning of the plant's activities in the Urals.

During the Great Patriotic War the plant produced products for the needs of the army, incl. aerial cameras for day and night photography, type AFA, necessary equipment for developing and printing pictures, etc.

In 1949, the plant was re-profiled from an optical-mechanical profile to a radar profile and was designated as the head one for radar meteorological stations for the needs of the Ministry of Defense and the Hydrometeorological Service of the USSR. At the same time, a Special Design Bureau (OKB) with the functions of development and design support for the production of radar products was created at the enterprise by the Government Decree.

Since 1951, the enterprise has begun serial production of the country's first artillery gun-pointing radar, SON-4. In subsequent years, the radar stations SON-4A, SON-9, SON-9A, SON-15 were put into production.

The production of radar equipment, new for the enterprise, was provided with a target direction for the enterprise of young specialists from many universities of the country of radio engineering and instrument-making faculties. The management and engineering personnel of the enterprise were retrained at academic courses in Moscow.

Since 1957, the enterprise has significantly expanded the range of manufactured radar products. The Ministry of Radio Industry assigned to the enterprise the direction for the creation and development of meteorological products in the production. In the same year, the first radar meteorological station RMS-1 "Meteor" (developed by NIEMI, Moscow) was transferred to the enterprise for production. On the basis of this station, the design bureau of the plant developed radar meteorological stations for the network of the country's hydrometeorological service "Meteorite", "Meteorite-2" and "Meteorite-R" - research courts of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

In 1959, the enterprise developed and serially produced from 1961 to 1967 a wind-sounding radar RVZ-1 "Proba".

In 1966 the enterprise was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

In 1971, the design bureau of the enterprise began to develop a mobile radar meteorological complex based on a new generation electronic base "Shkval-1". Further modernization of the product made it possible to master the following products in production: "Shkval-2", radio direction-finding meteorological complex (RPMK) "Smile", operating in both radar and direction-finding modes. On the basis of the Shkval and Ulybka products, the AVK-1 Titan and AVK-1M Titan-M radar systems were developed for the stationary network of the country's Hydrometeorological Service, which were supplied to replace the physically and morally obsolete Meteorites.

In 1975, the plant, increasing the volume of serial production of mastered special equipment products, formed a new direction for consumer goods - electromusical and amplifying-acoustic equipment, which was successfully sold on the country's market. The plant entered the perestroika period, there was a sharp decrease in the volume of state orders and the company found itself in a very difficult situation. At that time, the most massive civilian products were electromusical subjects and household computers. They could not cover the lost production volumes, as a result the plant found itself in a very difficult situation. Communication equipment has already been produced in small volumes. IN short term the plant managed to redesign part of production and, despite an acute financial deficit, invest in the development and organization of production new products... The main volumes were provided by communication equipment. In 1995, the company was awarded a diploma from the International Academy of Entrepreneurship Leadership and Management. This award was awarded to the State Enterprise "Vector" "For successes in economic survival and development in unfavorable conditions."

Throughout its 200-year history, the plant has always been distinguished by the excellent quality of its products and the high professionalism of its employees. For their great contribution to the production of modern equipment for the Armed Forces of the country, many workers of the enterprise were awarded government awards: Heroes of Socialist Labor - 3 people; State Prize Laureates - 6 people; awarded the Order of Lenin - 12 people; awarded the Order of the October Revolution - 21 people; awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor - 112 people; awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor - 150 people; awarded the Order of Labor Glory II degree - 150 people; III degree - 133 people; awarded the Medal for Labor Valor - 150 people; awarded the Medal for Merit in Labor - 184 people.

The history of the plant began in 1811, when workshops for the repair and manufacture of geodetic instruments were organized in St. Petersburg. In 1941, by decision of the Council of Defense, the plant was transferred to the city of Sverdlovsk, and on October 1, 1941, it began producing aerial photography cameras that the Soviet army needed. The first reconstruction of the plant was carried out in 1949, the profile was changed to radar, and the plant became the head plant for the production of meteorological stations for the needs of the Ministry of Defense, the Hydrometeorological Service of the USSR and for research purposes. On the basis of these technologies, since 1965, digital Computer Engineering, and on its basis large automated systems controls used in our country and exported. At present, OJSC "UPP" Vector "- modern enterprise, which has a powerful production potential, a wide range of advanced technologies, a high professional level of personnel, and a well-developed product quality control system. The company is constantly looking for promising types of products that could be successfully sold on the domestic market. So, for almost 15 years, the plant was practically a monopolist in the production of domestic electric musical instruments and sound-amplifying equipment. Today our company is closely cooperating with developers electronic equipment, such as OKB "Peleng", MF "Tarif", CJSC "NTC-Simos", CJSC "ASK", UNPP "Laser", CJSC "Vector-MS" and others. At present, telecommunications equipment manufactured by the enterprise has taken a solid place in the market. Modern developments include elevator equipment, air plasma cutting machines, material handling equipment, electrical equipment for urban electric transport, and medical equipment. Many years of experience in the field of radio electronics allowed the company to master and constantly expand the range of products for industrial, technical and household purposes, the development of which is a response to market demand... Plant "Vector" is a part of the concern "Almaz-ANTEY"

 

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