MAPO - the Moscow Aircraft Production Association (russian: Московское авиационное производственное объединение, Moskovskoye aviatsionnoye proizvodstvennoye obyedineniye) was a major
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n state-owned
military aircraft
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manufacturer.
History
MAPO has its origins in Plant #30 of the
Dux Factory
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The factory was founded in 1893. The name comes from the Latin word (leader). Julius Möller (also ...
company.
Plant #30 was established in 1939 in
Dubna
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.
In December 1941, it was relocated to the former site of
Plant #1, where it manufactured the
Ilyushin Il-2
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.
In 1950, it merged with Plant #381, to produce the
Il-28 in larger volumes.
In 1953,
Lukhovitsy Machine Building Plant
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History
It was first mentioned in 1594 as the settlement ...
was established as a subsidiary of the plant.
Plant #30 became known as the ''Znamya Truda Machine-Building Plant'' in 1965,
and as the Moscow Aircraft Production Organisation in 1973.
In the early 1990s, it employed 30,000 workers.
In 1995, MAPO was merged with the
Mikoyan Design Bureau, forming MAPO-MiG.
In January 1996, a decree of President
Boris Yeltsin
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established MAPO VPK, which combined 12 different aviation companies, including MAPO-MiG,
Kamov
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,
Klimov
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Originally established as ''Kirill Klimov Experimental De ...
, the
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and
Aviabank.
Unlike
Sukhoi
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, which managed to secure export contracts with China and India, MAPO continued to be unprofitable throughout the 1990s. In December 1999, MAPO was renamed Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG.
In 2006, MAPO merged with
Sukhoi
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and several other Russian aviation companies to form
United Aircraft Corporation
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.
The majority of MAPO's former assets are now part of
Mikoyan
Russian Aircraft Corporation "MiG" (russian: Российская самолётостроительная корпорация „МиГ“, Rossiyskaya samolyotostroitel'naya korporatsiya "MiG"), commonly known as Mikoyan and MiG, was a Russi ...
.
The Lukhovitsy and Znamya Truda plants are currently known as 'MiG Manufacturing Complex №1' (ПК №1 PCK «МиГ») and 'MiG Manufacturing Complex №2' (ПК №2 PCK «МиГ»), respectively.
Names
Over the years, it has also been known as OSOAVIAKHIM Plant #1, GAZ No. 1, Menjinski Plant #39, Orjonikidze Plant #381, Plant #30, MMZ (Moscow Machine-Building Plant) "Znamya Truda" (Banner of Labor), P.A. Voronin Production Center, and "Moscow Aircraft Production Organization (MAPO) named after Dementiev" (, Minister of Aircraft Industry from 1953 to 1977).
References
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Manufacturing companies based in Moscow
Aircraft manufacturers of the Soviet Union
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