KB Mashinostroyeniya or KBM for short ( Russian : КБ Машиностроения, КБМ , lit. 'Machine-Building Design Bureau') is a state defence enterprise, scientific and design R&D centre specialised in missile systems located in Kolomna , Moscow region , Russia . Part of Rostec state corporation.
4-571: KBM was founded on 11 April 1942 by order 1576 of the State Defence Committee for the mortar designs. Its first chief was Boris Shavyrin . The company was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of Labour Red Banner . Former names include SKB-101 , SKB-GA ( Russian : Специальное конструкторское бюро гладкоствольной артиллерии, СКБ ГА , lit. 'Special KB (Design Bureau) of smooth-bore artillery'). The company
8-819: Is also sometimes known as Kolomna Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau . The company is part of the High Precision Systems group. Its main constructors were Sergey Nepobedimiy and Andranik Ter-Stepaniyan . V. M. Sokolov is currently the Chief and General Designer. KBM produced more than 80% of all mortar types in USSR. Also, designed: 55°03′04″N 38°47′28″E / 55.051°N 38.791°E / 55.051; 38.791 State Defence Committee The State Defense Committee ( Russian : Государственный комитет обороны (ГКО) , romanized : Gosudarstvennyĭ komitet oborony (GKO) )
12-780: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . The war situation at the front lines required a more centralized form of government. The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union , however, continued unsuspended. On 18 June 1942, over a thousand members attended the 9th session of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow . Geoffrey Roberts sees the GKO as "a sort of war cabinet ". The initial composition of
16-740: Was an extraordinary organ of state power in the Soviet Union during the German-Soviet War , also called the Great Patriotic War, with complete state power in the country. The Soviets set up the GKO on 30 June 1941, a week after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, by a joint decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union , the Council of People's Commissars ( Sovnarkom ), and
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