Manufacturing Companies of the Soviet Union - Vostok Watches, Imperial Porcelain Factory, Luhanskteplovoz, Krasnogorskiy Zavod, Malyshev Factory (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Vostok watches, Imperial Porcelain Factory, Luhanskteplovoz, Krasnogorskiy Zavod, Malyshev Factory, Ekspla, Kiev Arsenal, Krasnoye Sormovo Factory No. 112, Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, LOMO, R gas Vagonb ves R pn ca, Omsktransmash, Uralvagonzavod, Yuzhmash, VEF, Uralmash, Elektronika, Elektrit, Petrodvorets Watch Factory, OKMO, Kolchug-Mizar, Belshina, Moscow Metallurgical Plant, Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant, Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod, NPO ELSIB, Tairus, Red Banner Textile Factory, Chelyabinsk Forge-and-Press Plant, Izhorskiye Zavody, Kazanorgsintez, Obukhov State Plant, ARAX camera, Lviv Insulator Company, Volgograd Tractor Factory, Svema, OAO Kondopoga, Molnija, Stroytransgaz, Metrovagonmash, Novokramatorsky Mashinostroitelny Zavod, Grigi k s, Motovilikha Plants, MIKA Cement, Ararat Cement, Dulyovo porcelain works, BELOMO, Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant, Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant, OJSC Dolomite, Tirotex, Bolshevichka, RUSAL ARMENAL. Excerpt: Vostok 24 hours watch.Vostok (Russian: , meaning East*) Watch Makers, Inc. produces mainly rugged military and diver mechanical watches at its factory in Chistopol, Tatarstan, Russia. It also makes clocks and watch movements for other watch brands. The Vostok Company was founded in 1942 when one of the Moscow watch-making plants of the First Moscow Watch Factory was evacuated to Chistopol, a small town located on the Kama River in Tatarstan. Only defense equipment was produced during the war years, but as soon as the war was over the company started making mechanical wrist watches. However, the Company did not begin using the "Vostok" brand name until the 1960s. *Presumable "Vostok" brand was named after the Vostok space program, which gave the initial advancement of the USSR in the Space race (as some others soviet watch brands, named to space topics in 1960...