Yuzhmash

The A.M. Makarov Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant, or PA Yuzhmash (Ukrainian: Виробниче Об'єднання Південний Машинобудівний Завод імені А.М. Макарова; Russian: Производственное Объединение Южный Машиностроительный Завод имени А.М. Макарова; 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.

Three YuMZ (ЮМЗ) T2 trolleybuses in Poltava, Ukraine manufactured in the late 90s.

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.

Trolleybus models include the articulated YuMZ T1 (1992-1998) and its non-articulated brother, the YuMZ T2. The T2 continues to be produced alongside the more modern YuMZ E-186 which features a low floor cabin.

Leonid Kuchma, long-time chief manager of the company, became the Prime Minister and later President of Ukraine in 1994.

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

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