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Radiopribor

Saint Petersburg defense plant specializing in airborne Doppler velocity and drift measurement systems, active radar homing heads, and aircraft radar transceiver units.

Last updated September 16, 2026

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Overview

Radiopribor is a Saint Petersburg plant whose history dates back to 1895. For more than 70 years its main specialization has been the development and production of helicopter and aircraft Doppler velocity and drift measurement systems, active homing heads for aviation missiles, and transceiver units for aircraft radars. Its instruments and devices have equipped numerous aircraft and helicopters. Currently, PAO Zavod Radiopribor describes itself as a modern, technologically self-sufficient enterprise with a full cycle of radio-electronic equipment manufacturing, from parts and assemblies to tuning and testing of complex electronic systems.

History

The Saint Petersburg plant Radiopribor traces its history to 1895. In the early period, Anna Fedorovna Zass, widow, was the founder and owner of the 'Zass A.F. Box Factory' at 23 Volkovskaya Street, on the site of the present-day PAO Zavod Radiopribor; it made wooden containers and straw caps for packaging and storing bottles, cans, shells, and bombs. In 1915 the factory was included in the list of Petrograd industrial enterprises producing items of state defense, and employed 130 workers. Engineer Evgeny Evgenievich Lantsky became the second owner in 1909; the factory was renamed the 'Zass A.F. Factory of Boxes and Airscrews' and then the 'Andreev-Lantsky Aircraft Factory' (formerly the 'Zass A.F. Box Factory'). It produced airscrews for domestic and foreign-licensed aeroplanes; in 1914-1917 it made 1,132 airscrews for Albatros, Anatra, Voisin, Ilya Muromets, Moran-Parasol, Nieuport, Sikorsky, and SPAD aeroplanes. By Decree No. 230 of 12(25) January 1918 of the Council of People's Commissars, the Andreev-Lantsky Aircraft Factory was nationalized. After numerous renamings, in 1931-1940 the plant was called 'Karakozov Shipbuilding Plant No. 4', producing sea and river launches, boats, dinghies, sports equipment, and from the mid-1930s also pontoons, drags, aircraft skis and propellers; it was the first in the country to master production of 'Okhotnik' boats. By 1940 the plant also began specializing in metalworking and repair of aircraft and engines. In 1940 it came under the People's Commissariat of the Aviation Industry and was renamed 'Plant No. 387', merging 'Karakozov Plant No. 4' and 'Lentekstilmash Plant'. For more than 70 years the main specialization has been the development and production of helicopter and aircraft Doppler velocity and drift measurement systems, active homing heads for aviation missiles, and transceiver units for aircraft radars. Its instruments have equipped aircraft including MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-25, MiG-31, Su-24, Su-27, Su-30, Tu-16, Tu-22, Tu-95, Tu-142, Tu-160, Il-76, An-124, and helicopters Mi-4, Mi-8, Mi-14, Mi-17, Mi-24, Mi-26, Mi-28, Ka-27, Ka-31, Ka-32, Ka-50, Ka-52. Currently PAO Zavod Radiopribor describes itself as a modern, technologically self-sufficient enterprise with a full cycle of radio-electronic equipment manufacturing, from parts and assemblies to tuning and testing of complex electronic systems. Development work is actively underway; prototype design work is nearing completion on DISS D001 and DISS D002 Doppler velocity and drift measurement systems for aircraft, and on an active homing head for the Kh-31AD missile.

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Modern, technologically self-sufficient enterprise with a full cycle of radio-electronic equipment manufacturing.

  • DISS D001 and DISS D002 Doppler velocity and drift measurement systems

  • Active homing head for the Kh-31AD missile

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