Voronezh Mechanical Plant (part of Roskosmos State Corporation) leads its history from October 1, 1928, when the enterprise was opened in Voronezh – Trieres. Then, since November 1931, the plant began to specialize in the production of diesel engines for small energy and the river fleet, and in July 1940, forced pace began the release of M-11 aircraft engines for aircraft in 2.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the plant was evacuated to Andijan, where he produced aviation motors for light aircraft. Over the military period, they produced more than 30 thousand aircraft engines. In 1946, the company returned to Voronezh. In the postwar years, serial production of piston star-like AS-62IR, AC-14P, M-14P, M14B26 and other modifications for general-purpose aircraft and helicopters were mastered.
Since the establishment of the rocket-space industry, the Navy is a manufacturer of rocket engines for most space programs. Voronezh machine builders were alternatives of key projects of the space era: the flight of the first person into space on the ship “Vostok”, the creation of a rocket-nuclear shield and the super heavy complex “Energia-Buran”, delivery to the ground of the moon soil samples. The VMZ engines were displayed in space “Salute” orbital stations, modules for the Mir stations and the ISS, delivered interplanetary spacecraft for Mars, Venus, to the Gallea comet.
In the 1980s. The Navy one of the first in the country began to convep the conversion and created modern domestic oil and gas equipment. Also, among the first Russian enterprises, VMZ certified its products according to the standards of the AU and the factory quality management system for the European standard ISO 9001.
In 2007, the Navy became part of the GKNPC them. M.V. Khrunichev (enters Roscosmos), and on November 1, 2019, the collective of the plant was merged with the team of the design bureau of Himavtomatics for the creation of the Voronezh Rocket Engineering Center (WFC), which is included in the integrated structure of the Rocket Engineering of NGO Energomash. V.P. Glushko state corporation “Roskosmos”.
Keeping perennial traditions of fruitful cooperation, the combined team continues work on the main topic. Currently, enterprise engines are operated as part of Soyuz-2.1A space missiles, “Soyuz-2.1b”, “Soyuz-2.1B”, “Soyuz-St-B”, “Proton-M”, the missile of the Angara family .