Barnaul Cartridge Plant JSC (russian: Барнаульский патронный завод) is a manufacturer of industrial goods and ammunition in Barnaul,

Altai Krai Altai Krai (russian: Алта́йский край, r=Altaysky kray, p=ɐlˈtajskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai). It borders clockwise from the west, Kazakhstan (East Kazakhstan Region and Pavlodar ...

, Russia.

History

The factory draws its origins to an ammunition factory established in Saint Petersburg (designated Arsenal "P") in the 19th century. It was evacuated to Podolsk in 1918 during the Russian Civil War Production was restarted under the Factory "P" designation in 1920 and was redesignated Factory 17 in 1928. During World War 2 it was evacuated again to its current location in Barnaul in 1941. The factory is part of the Barnaul Machine Tool Building Plant holding. In June 2023, Poly Technologies was identified as supplying Barnaul Cartridge Plant with gunpowder after the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Product lines (brands)

*BEAR series ** The BEAR series is a line of hunting ammunition. The cartridges use lead-cored Full Metal Jacketed, Soft-Point (Semi-Jacketed), or Hollow Point bullets, have

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case Case or CASE may refer to: Containers * Case (goods), a package of related merchandise * Cartridge case or casing, a firearm cartridge component * Bookcase, a piece of furniture used to store books * Briefcase or attaché case, a narrow box to c ...

s with Berdan primers, and use a non-corrosive propellant and primers. The sub-brands differ only in the protective coating used on the cartridge case. ** Brown Bear ammunition cartridges have a brown

lacquer Lacquer is a type of hard and usually shiny coating or finish applied to materials such as wood or metal. It is most often made from resin extracted from trees and waxes and has been in use since antiquity. Asian lacquerware, which may be ca ...

coating on the steel case. ** Silver Bear ammunition cartridges have a zinc coating on the steel case. ** Golden Bear ammunition cartridges have a brass coating on the

case. * CENTAUR ammunition cartridges have a polymer coating on the steel case, are berdan primed, use non-corrosive Russian-made propellants produced by Tula machine plant., and are loaded with American-made " tombac" jacketed bullets produced by

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. Barnaul began a process of retooling in 2009 to produce a new line of higher-grade ammunition to compete in the American and European markets. The first CENTAUR brand ammunition was produced in 2011. *BARNAUL series ** Barnaul Gold ammunition cartridges, with brass cases. Currently comes in 5.56×45mm NATO and 9×19mm Parabellum. ** Barnaul Silver ammunition cartridges, with zinc-coated steel cases. Currently comes in 5.56×45mm NATO and 9×19mm Parabellum. * Traumatic ammunition pistol cartridges fire less-than-lethal rubber bullets. Currently comes in 9×19mm Parabellum and .45 ACP. * Military ( mil-spec) ammunition cartridges. Military cartridges made to contractor nation's specifications. It also refers to civilian 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×39mm M43 Soviet full-metal-jacketed lead-core bullet hunting cartridges packed in novelty 700-round Warsaw Pact-style oval-shaped vacuum-packed sheet steel "spam cans". *MONARCH (Academy Sports) – Barnaul currently makes the steel-cased ammunition for Academy Sports + Outdoors' MONARCH brand. (Academy Sports is an American purchasing and importing group that buys foreign made ammo and resells it under their brands at their own chain of stores).

Ammunition products

Source: Barnaulpatron.ru.

Pistol Cartridges

* 9×19mm Luger (9×19mm Parabellum) * 9×18mm Makarov (9mm Makarov) *

.45 ACP The .45 ACP ( Automatic Colt Pistol) or .45 Auto (11.43×23mm) is a rimless straight-walled handgun cartridge designed by John Moses Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic pistol. After successful military trials, it ...

Shotgun Shells

* 410 Magnum * 12 gauge

Rifle Cartridges

5.45×39mm The 5.45×39mm Cartridge (firearms), cartridge is a Rim (firearms), rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge. It was introduced into service in 1974 by the Soviet Union for use with the new AK-74. The 5.45×39mm gradually supplemented and then ...

cartridges *

5.56×45mm NATO The 5.56×45mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 5.56 NATO, but often pronounced "five-five-six") is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge family developed in the late 1970s in Belgium by FN Herstal. It consists of the SS109, L110, and ...

(

.223 Remington The .223 Remington (designated as the 223 Remington by the SAAMI and 223 Rem by the CIP) is a rimless, bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It was developed in 1957 by Remington Arms and Fairchild Industries for the U.S. Continental Army Command ...

) cartridges * 6.5×39mm Grendel cartridges * 6.61×51mm ( .243 Winchester) cartridges * 7.62×39mm cartridges * 7.62×51mm (

.308 Winchester The .308 Winchester is a smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge widely used for hunting, target shooting, police, military, and personal protection applications globally. It is similar but not identical to the 7.62×51mm NATO ...

) cartridges * 7.62×54mmR cartridges * 7.62×63mm (

.30-06 Springfield The .30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced "thirty- aught-six" ), 7.62×63mm in metric notation, and called the .30 Gov't '06 by Winchester, was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and later standardized; it remained in military use ...

) cartridges *

9.3×64mm Brenneke The 9.3×64mm Brenneke (designated as the 9,3 x 64 Brenneke by the C.I.P.) is a rimless bottlenecked centerfire rifle cartridge designed in 1927 by German gunmaker Wilhelm Brenneke. It is suitable for hunting medium to large game animals in Afr ...

cartridges

References

External links

Barnaul Cartridge Plant (English)
Ammunition manufacturers Defence companies of Russia Companies based in Altai Krai Defence companies of the Soviet Union {{manufacturing-company-stub