The story
Founded at the end of 1931 inside the structure of Chief Department of Glavvozdukhflot under the name of Dirigiblestroy for the means of producing the dirigibles.
In 1951 it changed the name to Dolgoprudny Machine-building Plant (Russian: Долгопрудненский машиностроительный завод or DMZ.
At that time the first SAMs were designed and produced. Since 1960 DNPP is specializing in air defence system.
In 1992 enterprise finished public offering of its shares.
Since 2002 DNPP joined Almaz-Antey (49.34% shares of DNPP to Almaz-Antey).
From Wikipedia’s article on Dolgoprudnenskoe Scientific Production Plant, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
