The story
Before World War II Aircraft Plant No. 18 was founded and worked in the city of Voronezh since March 1932. Since the same year the Voronezh Aircraft Plant No. 18 was producing 11 types of aircraft. Since 1939 it was producing the Il-2, and to the beginning of 1941 it produced about 1,510 planes of that type. In USSR Kuibyshev Aviation Plant (No.18) was one of the five largest plants in the aviation industry. During World War II the factory produced 15,099 Ilyushin Il-2s.
For more than half a century the plant produced Tupolev, Antonov and Ilyushin-designed aircraft.
After problems receiving An-140 supplies, Aviakor filed for insolvency by the end of September 2017.
From Wikipedia’s article on Aviakor, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4