YUZHMASH

The 'A.M. Makarov Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant', or 'PA Yuzhmash' (; ; 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 Chusovaya 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.

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See also

★ Yuzhnoe Design Bureau - a major missile designer closely co-operating with Yuzhmash

★ National Space Agency of Ukraine

External links

★ English-language home page

★ Makarov Pivdennyy (Yuzhnyy) Machine-Building Plant at the Nuclear Threat Initiative