Private company

KB SM

Logo: http://xn--90arht.xn--p1ai/, Non-free logo, via Wikipedia3

JSC Design Bureau for Special Machine-Building (KB SM; Russian: КБ СМ, Конструкторское бюро специального машиностроения) is a Soviet-Russian space rockets industry enterprise. Currently, it is part of Almaz-Antey. KB SM developed and produced a number of launch systems for air defence, Navy and Strategic Missile Troops.2 It was founded in 1945.1 It is headquartered in Saint Petersburg.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Mar 8, 1945Founded1
В предверье лета - panoramio
Photo: Доброе Утро, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

JSC Design Bureau for Special Machine-Building (KB SM; Russian: КБ СМ, Конструкторское бюро специального машиностроения) is a Soviet-Russian space rockets industry enterprise. Currently, it is part of Almaz-Antey.2

The story

Founded by the order of People's Commissar of Armaments no. 110 on March 21, 1945 in accordance with the decree of the USSR State Committee of Defense no. 7739 on March 8, 1945, under the name Naval artillery central design bureau, MATsBK (Russian: МАЦКБ, Морское артиллерийское центральное конструкторское бюро), it was the Leningrad branch of Grabin's Central Artillery Design Bureau.

Since 1948 it was known as Central Design Bureau no. 34 (CKB-34) and since 1966 as KBSM (Design bureau of mechanization, Russian: Конструкторским бюро средств механизации). Since 1989, bureau received its current name, Spetsmash (also KB SM). Ilya Ivanov, artillery and missile designer and scientist, became the first head of KB. After 1959, his successors were A.M. Shakhov (1959—1974), S. P. Kovalis (1974—1987), and N. A. Trofimov (1987—2007).

From Wikipedia’s article on Design Bureau for Special Machine-Building, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

The organization designs (develops) and participates in the manufacture, installation and operation:

Ground-based equipment of fixed- and mobile-based rocket and space complexes

Antenna installations of the short-wave (mm) range for mobile basing

Antenna installations in the short-wave (mm) and long-wave ranges for space radio communications, radio and space research and broadcasting

Read the full text

Precision pivoting devices for guidance of optical and optoelectronic systems and any special equipment weighing several tons or more

Equipment of thermal vacuum chambers for ground tests of spacecraft, including pivoting devices, light and reflective shields, auxiliary equipment

High-capacity assembly and docking equipment for precise assembly of large-sized products up to several tens of meters in size

Vehicles for RCT products with provision of thermostatting of transported spacecraft

Railway and automobile cranes with a lifting capacity of 80-150 tons

Launchers for ground and underwater launch of cruise missiles

Launchers and antenna posts for air defense systems

From Wikipedia’s article on Design Bureau for Special Machine-Building, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. Mar 8, 1945Founded Founded1

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5