Companies

JSC "Taganrogskaya Aviatsiya"

Top Management

Shareholders of JSC “TAVIA”

• JSC “UAC” (51% of the shares)
• LLC “Financial-Economic Company “Mayak-Alpha” (34.49% of the shares)
• Private shareholders (14.51% of the shares)

Sphere of activities

• repairing and upgrading of heavy types of aircraft, including dual use;
• manufacturing and repairing of aircraft means.

Promising areas are:

• participation in cooperative assembling of Be-200, Be-103 amphibian aircraft;
• participation in cooperative assembling of Tu-334 aircraft;
• participation in A-42 amphibian aircraft programme.

History

The oldest Russian aircraft-building enterprise – JSC “Taganrogskaya Aviatsiya” – was created on September 17, 1916, when in the suburbs of Taganrog “V.A. Lebedev and K.”, public company of aeronautics started construction of an aircraft plant. Founder of the plant – Vladimir A. Lebedev – was one of the pioneers of aeronautics in Russia. He became the third degreed pilot in the country, stood at the origins of the first Petersburg aero club and established Russia's first aviation school “Gamayun”.

The young Plant had enormous advantages for promising development. Donbass was nearby – the center of power engineering. A seaport and a railroad connecting the railway station, the sea port and major factories of Taganrog with all industrial and administrative centers of Russia were adjacent. These advantages, as well as loans from the government, allowed to build the Plant rapidly.

Large contracts for construction of 225 flying boats were concluded with the Maritime Department. Therefore, the Plant was established as an aircraft-building company with prospects to develop into a hydro aircraft-building plant. The Plant was very well planned. Main assembly consisted of two flows: one – for land-based aircraft, another – for the sea. Assembly shop adjoined two aisles of buildings, where parts and components of land and sea machines were made. It looked like continuous flow assembly systems used in modern aircraft-building plants.

Constructed in a very short period of time during 1916-1917, Taganrog Aviation Plant has become the largest aviation enterprise of Russia in terms of production area, which at that time amounted to 13,8 thousand square meters. In difficult conditions of the World War I the Plant organized aircraft production in record time. Among its products was “Swan-12”, the famous two-seat reconnaissance plane. Its designer – L.D. Kolpakov-Miroshnichenko – was one of the factory’s technical managers. Furthermore, assembly of French “Vuazen” and English “Sopvich” aircraft was actively conducted.

In 1921, hardly after restoring production after the Civil War the Plant created MK-1 “Small Fish”, a new hydro-plane. In 1922, works on serial production of DN-9a, a two-seat reconnaissance plane of English firm “De Havilland”, began at the Plant. It was that model which was used as a basis for creating R-1, a first Soviet serial reconnaissance aircraft designed by N.N. Polikarpov. In 1925 the Plant mastered production of R-1 aircraft and then started construction of a sea-based version of this aircraft – MR-1. All in all there more than one thousand P-1 aircraft and 124 pieces of MR-1 aircraft was built at the Taganrog Plant.

The construction of a hydro-base began at the Plant in mid 1920-ies. A whole number of naval aircraft including MP-3, ROM-1, ROM-2, TOM-1, MU-2 and others was constructed or flight tested at the Plant after the hydro-base was complete. ANT-4 “Country of Soviets” backup aircraft underwent flight tests at the base before its outstanding flight to Europe.

In 1932-1934 Taganrog Aircraft-Building Plant aviation workers headed by a new chief designer of the Plant V.B. Shavrov rapidly mastered and started series production of Sha-2, the first domestic hydroplane-amphibian. Famous Sha-2 aircraft were irreplaceable in the development of the North, the Siberia and the Far East. On August 9, 1934, on the resolution of the Government the Central Design Bureau of Sea Aircraft Construction headed by young talented engineer G.M. Beriev, subsequently most important Soviet aircraft designer of seaplanes, was created at tge Taganrog Aircraft Plant.

In 1930-ies more than 10 models of maritime aircraft were serially produced at the Plant. Aircraft of A.N. Tupolev, N.N. Polikarpov, R.L. Bartini, P.O. Sukhoi, I.V. Chetverikov, G.M. Beriev, P.D. Samsonov, S.A. Lavochkin and other well-known aircraft designers were built at the Plant. Among them there were MBR-2 and MBR-7 short-haul maritime reconnaissance airplanes; MDR-4 and MDR-6 long-haul maritime reconnaissance airplanes; Su-2 (BB-1) short-range bomber; KOR-1 shipborne reconnaissance aircraft; TB-1P heavy bomber; PS-9 passenger aircraft, KR-6 and MDR-5 maritime reconnaissance airplanes; R-5 light bomber and others.

The Second World War has changed the Plant’s product line. In February 1941, the Plant manufactured LaGG-3 combat fighter. Front line approached Taganrog and an order to evacuate was obtained on October 8, 1941. Just eight days were given for that titanic work. Hundreds of units of equipment, machine tools and stocks were dismantled. All that as well as stock of combat fighters and materials, was loaded into echelons and barges and was taken away into the deep rear. On August 30, 1943, Taganrog was released. During withdrawal, the fascists exploded the Plant’s basic shops.

Taganrog Aviation Plant was largely restored by 1950 owing to heroic efforts of thousands of people. The new page in Plant’s history began in autumn of 1946, when the Experimental Design Bureau-86 of Soviet NKVD led by R.L. Bartini, was relocated to the Plant. Almost all leading designers, chiefs of brigades, as well as the chief designer and his deputies were held on the position of prisoners. It were these people that designed and built by 1948 the first in history of our country wide-body land aircraft – T-117, which found its further development in An-10, An-12, An-22 serial aircraft. Production of Be-6 patrol flying boat, IL-32 heavy troop-carrier glider, Be-10 maritime missile carrier (11 world records were established on it since 1961), Be-12 “Seagull” multirole turboprop flying amphibian boat (42 world records were established on it since 1963) was mastered in 1950-ies.

Tu-142, large ground-based anti-submarine aircraft, created on the basis of Tu-95 strategic bomber, was mastered and produced in different modifications at the Plant since 1973. Tu-142 was delivered to the Republic of India in 1987-1989. Production of Tu-142 aircraft ended in 1992.

The Plant directly participated in creation of Be-42 “Albatross”, a unique amphibian aircraft (chief designer A.K. Constantinov). General public saw this remarkable aircraft for the first time at the parade in Tushino (Moscow) in August 1989. At the international air show in France in June 1991, “Albatross” was recognized as the best aircraft of the year and won “Miss Paris” prize.

In 1993, Taganrog Aviation Plant was subjected to 100% conversion of military production. In 1994, the Plant was reincorporated as a publicly held company and named Stock Company of Open Type “Taganrogskaya Aviatsiya”, and since 05.09.1996 – Joint Stock Company “TAVIA”.

Currently the main activity of “TAVIA” (JSC) is repair of aircraft as well as manufacturing of aircraft equipment.

“TAVIA” (JSC) enters the composition of JSC “UAC” since 2008.

Current information on the company represented at:

www.taganrog-avia.com/ot.htm