COMPANY HISTORY

"Production Amalgamation “Novosibirsk Instrument-Making Plant" began life in 1905. At that time, the famous German companies "Carl Zeiss" and "K. Hertz” had founded their optical shops in the city of Riga. Since this time, the tradition of high quality has been maintained and continually developed. The times connecting symbol is Hertz’s panoramic sight which is manufactured by our plant for almost a hundred years. From the outset, the main specialization of our enterprise has been to equip the Russian Land Forces with the finest sighting and observation technology.


During the wars hanging over Russia the plant had been changing it’s location for several times until it was moved to Novosibirsk. Only here, in the early 70's the Central Design Bureau of precision instrument-making (CDB “Tochpribor”) was organized and later - Siberian Research Institute of Optical Systems (SRIOS) appeared. Currently these three related enterprises represent an unique complex, capable of solving any scientific problems in research, development and serial production of modern optoelectronic devices.

Specialists of our enterprises were involved in designing process of most of optical and optoelectronic sights, surveillance and reconnaissance devices of the USSR Land Forces. The enterprise has great theoretical and practical experience within all mentioned areas and had created the unique techniques and high-precision manufacturing machinery. A perspective element base – Image Intensifiers tubes (IIT) Generation 2+ and 3, programmable microcomputers, TV and thermal imaging devices with optical-electronic systems for processing information are being used in the developments of recent years.

The current status of the plant - "Federal State Unitary Enterprise" – says about State support of production. The plant has partners both: in Russia - among the enterprises of defense complex, and in foreign countries – the traditional importers of our military and civil products. We invite every interested party for collaboration.