Excursion to the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant (28 photos)

Izhevsk Mechanical Plant - produces hunting rifles, pistols and revolvers, pneumatic weapons, hand-held power tools, and packaging machines. The photo tour of it was quite interesting!

from the factory website:
Izhevsk Mechanical Plant was founded on July 20, 1942 for the production of military small arms. The first products produced were anti-tank rifles by famous Soviet gunsmiths V.A. Degtyarev and S.G. Simonov, and an automatic pistol by F.V. Tokarev TT.
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Now the guns are produced under the Baikal brand.
To date, more than 100 basic models of hunting rifles, sports and air rifles and pistols have been mastered. In total, about 17 million pieces were produced.

The plant developed and produces the Yarygin pistol, which replaced the Makarov in the Russian Army (2003) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (2008) link on wiki

They entered the plant by bus, apparently so as not to run away through the secret territory

demonstration of the entire range of weapons at the entrance to the workshop.

I didn’t listen, but probably the manual talks about double-barreled shotguns

Work in the workshop. Everything is done by hand, each barrel is individually adjusted to the trigger and stock, each product receives a quality certificate. The system is from Soviet times. According to my friend - the head of a shooting club and the owner of three guns - Izhevsk makes high-quality guns (IzhMekh and its more famous older brother IzhMash)

To the photographer's eye, the workshop is crowded with everything, rows of machines and tables, and the workers know how everything works and why it is needed. In this room, individual components are made or completed: barrels, butts, impact mechanisms, which travel from the machine on a conveyor further to assembly.

the next room of a large workshop, here they do the individual finishing of the barrel so that it fits well with the firing mechanism

the trigger mechanism is also adjusted so that everything fits everything

The parts of the gun go through a chain of operations, at the end of which they are assembled. This is a simple operation if the gun is properly adjusted. Interestingly, only women work at the assembly stage.

I "Please show me your weapon"
me "This?"

On the territory of the plant

Designer Vdamimir Aleksandrovich Yarygin. Before his own pistol, he worked on sporting and signal weapons. He is the author of the famous traumatic pistol Guard (a competitor to the more famous Wasp)link, which now has a laser target designator (and now a banana one, yeah)

View of the factory headquarters through the window of the factory photographer. The top floor of the house closest to the plant, very convenient for a photographer.