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  Votkinsk Machine Building Plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Votkinsk Machine Building Plant is a ballistic missile production facility in Votkinsk, Russia.
Votkinsk was also responsible for the production of the cold war era SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missile.
Votkinsk Machine Building Plant at the Nuclear Threat Initiative
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Votkinsk_Machine_Building_Plant   (99 words)

  
 Votkinsk - LoveToKnow 1911
VOTKINSK, a town and iron-works, in the Russian government of Vyatka, 40 m.
Votkinsk was formerly one of the chief government establishments for the construction of steamers for the Caspian, as well as of locomotives for the Siberian railway, and it has long been renowned for its excellent tarantasses (driving vehicles) and other smaller iron-wares, as well as for its knitted goods.
This page was last modified 10:49, 25 May 2006.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Votkinsk   (71 words)

  
 Votkinsk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Votkinsk (Russian: Во́ткинск) is an industrial town in the Republic of Udmurtia, Russia.
Under the Treaty on Intermediate and Short Range Missiles (INF) concluded between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the missile production facility at Votkinsk was selected for long-term on-site monitoring by U.S. inspectors.
Votkinsk has a sister city, as designated by Sister Cities International, Inc. (SCI):
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Votkinsk   (169 words)

  
 Chapter 5 - CPM Inspections
By the end of March, the American on-site inspectors had the CargoScan system operational at Votkinsk and Soviet railcars leaving the portal were being imaged in accordance with the new procedures.
In November 1992, she recalled her experiences at Votkinsk in nursing, inspecting, and participating in local, Russian cultural activities.
At Votkinsk in the winter of 1988-1989, the American portal monitoring inspection team gathered one morning and framed this American flag in the snow.
www.fas.org /nuke/control/inf/infbook/ch5h.html   (1430 words)

  
 The American Spectator
Votkinsk, the birthplace of composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, may have been founded in 1759, but during Soviet times the city didn't make it onto most maps.
Votkinsk didn't get its topological due until 1988, when the first Americans came to the city to serve as inspectors under the START and INF treaties.
"Votkinsk is so desolate polar bears would love to see a pipeline built so they'd have something to scratch their ass on," one incredulous State Department employee who visited the facility said.
www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=7194   (2819 words)

  
 :: Schnews :: SchNEWS OF THE WORLD
VOTKINSK, birthplace of famous 19th century composer Pyotr Chaikovsky, is a city of 100,000 inhabitants in Udmurtia, an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation near the Ural mountains.
The first attempt to build the plant in Western Siberia’s Perm area was cancelled thanks to local resistance, so the focus changed to Votkinsk - a city dependent on the military-industrial complex, and under the corrupt government of the Udmurtian republic.
In 1999 the project was put to a referendum in Votkinsk and 99.4% of voters were against the plant’s construction - but the highest court of the Udmurtian republic declared the result invalid.
www.schnews.org.uk /sotw/votkinsk.htm   (1006 words)

  
 Chapter 5 - CPM Inspections
When the INF Treaty entered into force in June 1988, Votkinsk was a closed city of 100,000 people located in the Ural Mountains, approximately 1,000 kilometers northeast of Moscow.
In addition, treaty negotiators agreed that eight times per treaty year U.S. inspectors at Votkinsk had the right to visually inspect a missile inside its launch canister to make sure it was not a banned INF missile.
At Votkinsk, the U.S. compound contained a shelter for missile rail cars that had exited the Soviet plant and were awaiting connection to the U.S. Radiographic Imaging System.
www.fas.org /nuke/control/inf/infbook/ch5.html   (965 words)

  
 VOTKINSK. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Founded in 1759 as Votkinski Zavod, a metal industry settlement, it was pillaged by Pugachev in 1774.
The home of Tchaikovsky, who was born in Votkinsk, is now a museum.
The city is named for the Votyaks, now called Udmurts.
www.bartleby.com /aol/65/vo/Votkinsk.html   (53 words)

  
 About DTRA: Historical Documents - On-Site Inspections Under the Intermediate -Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
Votkinsk, U.S. dormatories under construction in the spring of 1989.
All of the furnishings and equipment needed for the American inspectors residence and offices were acquired in the United States, transported to the Soviet Union, and installed at Votkinsk.
Until that system was installed, approved, and was in use at Votkinsk, the U.S. government would not consider its INF portal monitoring inspection regime fully operational.
www.dtra.mil /about/media/historical_documents/books/infbook/ch5e.cfm   (1396 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | West Jordan medical team visits Russia
On the surface, West Jordan and its Russian sister city, Votkinsk, have many things in common — from Votkinsk's size to the initial bond it formed because of the missile base there and the link to this Utah city.
At a time when the on-site school nurse is a rarity in Utah, each school in Votkinsk has a pediatrician responsible for the students' health.
Votkinsk takes an intensive approach to prevention in the form of well-child care.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600157705,00.html   (728 words)

  
 Izhevsk & Votkinsk, 3-day Udmurtia tour
Transfer to Votkinsk, the town where famous composer Chaikovsky was born and spend 8,5 years of his life.
Just before arrival in Votkinsk, a short visit to the museum of Galina Kulakova - Udmurtia's most famous sport legend (cross country skiing) - is planned.
She won silver and bronze on the winter olympics in Grenoble in 1968, three times gold in Sapporo (1972), gold and bronze in Innsbruck (1976) and silver in Lake Placid (1980).
www.uraltourism.com /udmurtia-izhevsk-tour.php   (600 words)

  
 Rude Awakening To Bush's Missile Defense Dreams
From 1988 to 1990, I served as one of the American weapons inspectors at the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant in Russia, where the SS-27 and its predecessor, the SS-25, were assembled.
When I started my work in Votkinsk, the SS-25 missile was viewed by many in the US intelligence community as the primary ICBM threat facing the United States.
Through the work of the inspectors at Votkinsk, as well as several related inspections where US experts were able to view the SS-25 missile system in its operating bases in Siberia, a great deal of data was collected that assisted the US intelligence community in refining its understanding of how the SS-25 operated.
www.rense.com /general61/rude.htm   (777 words)

  
 STATE PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION "VOTKINSK PLANT" - CONVERSION & NEW PRODUCTIONS
Votkinsk Plant has Russian Licenses 36P-98/2957 from 19.01.95 and 36I-98/2958 from 19.01.95 allowing the Plant to design and manufacture oil and gas equipment.
Production at Votkinsk Plant is also in accordance with the international standard ISO 9001-1994 - certificate 97-435 from 11.06.1997, issued by Quality Certification Bureau Inc. of Canada.
Votkinsk Plant works in co-operation with leading science and research institutes in Russia in the area of oil and gas equipment design approved by oil and gas companies.
www.ceebd.co.uk /ceebd/spavp3.htm   (386 words)

  
 Rainbow Keepers
Votkinsk is a city of 100 000 inhabitants in the Udmurtian republic, Russian Federation.
There is also strong movement in the city of Chaykovskiy near Votkins, which has organised mass meetings as well as car caravan to the city of Izhevsk, capital of the Udmurtian republic.
Groups in both Votkinsk and Chaykovskiy have joined Socio-Ecological Union, umbrella of about 300 enviromental NGO's, and "Khimbez", network against chemical pollutants in Russia.
rk2000.chat.ru /00n.htm   (577 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Simultaneously with the plant, the worker’s village Votkinsk was being built too.
Tchaikovsky spent only eight childhood years in his native town Votkinsk, but the memories of that time were kept alive in composer’s soul forever.
Memorial museum of Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky in Votkinsk was opened in spring 1940 to commemorate the composer’s one-hundredth birthday.
sarapul.ru /kt/chaikovsky.html   (253 words)

  
 Газета.Ru - Environmentalists Halt US Rocket Processing Plant in Udmurtia
The rocket fuel processing facility was to be built close to the famous Votkinsk plant, the constructor of the Topol ICBM and in the first three years the new facility was to process 916 solid-fuel rocket engines.
The fate of the project remained vague until the end of the year 2001 when the deputies of the Udmurita legislature declared they would not pass the republic’s budget until the issue was again raised in the legislature.
The authorities of the Perm Region added fuel to the fire with protests against the construction of the plant: Votkinsk is situated close to the border between Udmurtia and the Perm region.
www.gazeta.ru /2002/03/04/Environmenta.shtml   (744 words)

  
 Decca Music Group - Composers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Tchaikovsky was born as the son of a mining engineer and his high-strung wife, in the provincial town of Votkinsk.
His musical talent manifested itself early, and he took piano lessons, first in Votkinsk and then in St Petersburg, where the family moved in 1848.
Educated for a career in the civil service, he broke away and followed an inner calling to become a composer, and graduated with a silver medal from the St Petersburg Conservatory in 1865.
www.deccaclassics.com /music/composers/tchaikovsky.html   (487 words)

  
 No. 90-P 26   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The purpose of such scanning is to assure the United States that SS-20 missiles banned by the INF Treaty are no longer being assembled at this facility.
On March 9 and 10, the Soviets removed three missile canisters from Votkinsk without permitting the United States to use its "Cargoscan" monitoring device or otherwise inspect the contents.
Ironically, last Friday -- the same day that the Votkinsk incidents were reported by columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak -- another instance of Soviet disinformation was accepted at face value by the New York Times.
www.security-policy.org /papers/1990/90-P26.html   (665 words)

  
 Perchlorate in Russia - Perchlorate Contamination Information - Larry Ladd
Now the citizens of Votkinsk are complaining of ailments vaguely similar to what Californians have been filing lawsuits about in connection with perchlorate drinking water contamination.
Votkinsk information centre of "Green cross" is financed through Moscow
The environment of Votkinsk district has already polluted.
www.perchlorate.org /topics/perch_in_russia.html   (1547 words)

  
 VOTKINSCH_KOR
In this case the highest court of the Udmurtian republic decided the plant referendum wasn’t valid, because it should have been held in the surrounding municipality where the plant was to be located rather than in the city of Votkinsk itself.
The incoming mayor Kuznetsov’s true position with regards to the project was not revealed to inhabitants of Votkinsk.
The Votkinsk camp, co-organised with the International Socio-Ecological Union, the Union for Chemical Safety, and local ecological activists, ran almost six weeks from 18th of July until 30th of August.
www.kolumbus.fi /antra/VOTKINSCH_KOR.htm   (1518 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
CTR had also invested approximately $85 million in designs and testing for the rocket motor disposal facility to have been built at Votkinsk.
The Votkinsk situation is similar to the heptyl situation in one respect.
However, the Votkinsk situation is different from the heptyl situation in many other ways.
www.house.gov /hasc/openingstatementsandpressreleases/108thcongress/03-03-04crouch.html   (3448 words)

  
 osia3
July 1 The United States and the Soviet Union began continuous portal monitoring under the INF Treaty, with U.S. inspectors monitoring a Soviet missile plant at Votkinsk, Russia, and Soviet inspectors monitoring a missile factory at Magna, Utah.
January At the continuous portal monitoring site in Votkinsk, Russia, the United States began installing the non-damaging Radiographic Imaging System (RIS, or CargoScan), which would image ICBMs exiting the factory to verify that they were not SS-20 missiles prohibited by the treaty.
March 9 At Votkinsk, Soviet plant officials removed the railcar which had been set aside, along with two other railcars, without allowing the American portal monitoring team to image them with the CargoScan system.
www.royfc.com /osia3.html   (2852 words)

  
 Russia
11/15/2002: VOTKINSK PROJECT ON vestiya reported on 15 November 2002 that the solid-fuel rocket engine elimination project in Votkinsk is on the verge of collapse.
The unwillingness to permit the project to proceed may be related to the upcoming privatization of the Votkinsk Plant, an ICBM manufacturing facility with which the rocket engine elimination plant will be affiliated.
In a recent referendum, 94% of Votkinsk residents voted against the project to set up a solid rocket fuel incinerator at the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant on the outskirts of their city.
www.nti.org /db/nisprofs/russia/weapons/icbms/icbmdism.htm   (4747 words)

  
 Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born to a middle class family in Votkinsk, Russia in 1840.
Before he started to study composition he studied law for nine years.
For this concert, the orchestra will be playing the 'Finale' from the 4th Symphony.
www.uky.edu /~deen/Philharmonic/Tchaikovsky/tchaikovsky.html   (160 words)

  
 Votkinsk - Russian and Soviet Nuclear Forces
At Votkinsk, Soviet SS-20, SS-23 and SS-12 missiles had been assembled at the plant.
These SS-25 missiles were not banned by the INF Treaty.
The purpose of U.S. portal monitoring inspections at Votkinsk was to ensure that the USSR did not assemble the banned SS-20 missile under the guise of an SS-25 missile.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/russia/votkinsk.htm   (170 words)

  
 NASM Space Artifacts: SS-20
Along the base of the missile are white fan stabilizers that assist in guidance.
The Votkinsk Machine Building Plant, USSR, constructed the missile for the exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum.
Exhibition of this missile is in compliance with the Intermediate Nuclear Forces agreement between the US and USSR that provided for the preservation of fifteen SS-20 and Pershing II missiles to commemorate the first international agreement to ban an entire class of nuclear arms exhibition.
www.nasm.si.edu /spacecraft/IS-SS-20.htm   (185 words)

  
 tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky was born on May 7, 1840, in Votkinsk, in the western Ural area of the country.
He studied law in Saint Petersburg and took music classes at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
Tchaikovsky also extended the range of the symphonic poem, and his works in this genre, including Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, are notable for their richly melodic evocation of the moods of the literary works on which they are based.
members.tripod.com /shereentst/tchaikovsky.htm   (700 words)

  
 Rainbow Keepers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Radical environmental movement « Rainbow Keepers» Invites to a traditional international environmental actioncamp: Votkinsk, Udmurtiya, Russia July - August, 2001 Against corporation Lockheed Martin
Rainbow Keepersien protestileiri - 15.7.2001-elokuu 2001 - Votkinsk, Udmurtia, Venaja
Sommerleir i Votkinsk, Russland - mot amerikansk fabrikk
rk2000.chat.ru /eng01.htm   (288 words)

  
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 Space Today Online -- Beating Swords Into Plowshares -- Russian SS-25 ICBM Space Launches
SS-25s are built in Russia by a state-owned enterprise known as Votkinsky Zavod.
The Votkinsk Plant State Production Association is one of the foremost missile production facilities in Russia.
Missile components are produced alongside civil and consumer goods at a main plant in downtown Votkinsk and the final flight-ready missiles are assembled at a plant seven miles outside of town.
www.spacetoday.org /Rockets/Plowshares/SS25.html   (569 words)

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