Shvabe Holding () is a holding company within the Russian state-owned
Rostec
Rostec, formally trading as State Corporation "Rostec", fully the State Corporation for the Promotion of the Development, Manufacture, and Export of High Tech Products "Rostec" and formerly Rostekhnologii, is a Russian State corporation (Russia), ...
group responsible for development and production of high-tech optical-electronic systems both for military and civil purposes, manufacturing of optical, medical and energy-saving equipment.
Established in 2008, the company was known as JSC NPK Optical Systems and Technologies until October 26, 2012. Its companies manufacture electrooptical equipment, devices and defence systems and hi-tech civil products, such as systems for surveillance, aerospace monitoring and
remote sensing
Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an physical object, object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation. The term is applied especially to acquiring inform ...
, laser systems and facilities, distance gauges, target finders, photolithographic systems, precision elements and nanounits, medical equipment, surveying instruments, lighting equipment and much more. Shvabe manufactures about 6,000 product units supplied to 83 countries.
Since 2011, the holding company is registered in
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...
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According to Rostec’s plans in 2013, Shvabe will launch an IPO within four or five years.
Structure
Companies of the holding:
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Krasnogorsky Zavod
Krasnogorsky zavod () is a Russian factory in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Krasnogorsk near Moscow which specializes in Optics, optical technology. Part of Shvabe Holding (Rostec state corporation).
During the Soviet Union, Soviet period it was c ...
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Lytkarino Optical Glass Factory
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NCLSK Astrophysika
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NPO Orion
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Novosibirsk Instrument-Building Plant
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Polyus Scientific Research Institute
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Research and technological institute of optical materials all-Russia scientific center "S.I.Vavilov State Optical Institute"
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Scientific and Production Association "Optica"
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Urals Optical & Mechanical Plant
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Vavilov State Optical Institute The Vavilov State Optical Institute in St Petersburg, Russia (named after Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov) is a research institute in optics in Russia. It works both in pure and applied optics.
It was established in 1918 along the lines of a proposal by ...
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Vologda Optical-Mechanical Plant
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Zagorsk Optical-Mechanical Plant
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State Institute for Applied Optics, Kazan
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MZ Sapfir
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Precision Instrument Engineering Construction Bureau
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Shvabe Tech Lab, Kazan (before 2014 - TSKB "Photon" OJSC)
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Medical technology companies of Russia
Optics manufacturing companies
Companies based in Moscow