Lytkarino Optical Glass Plant is a company based in Lytkarino, Russia and established in 1934. It is part of the Shvabe Holding of the state-owned Rostec corporation.[1]
The Lytkarino Optical Glass Plant is a major producer of optical glass and precision optical instruments for the military as well as for the civilian market, producing night vision devices and glass laser optics.[2]
History
On October 1, 1933 Order №887/204 of the All-Union Trust of the Optical and Mechanical Industry of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry of the USSR (NKTP) was signed on the construction of a mirror reflector plant near the village of Lytkarino in the Ukhtomsky district of the Moscow Region (ZZO — the name of the plant before its renaming) for searchlight installations with mirrors up to 150 cm in diameter. The plant began to be built in 1934-1935.
In 1939 the unfinished plant produced its first products – five searchlight mirrors with a diameter of 1.5 meters. At that time, only factories in Leningrad and Izium produced similar products in the USSR.