The A.M. Makarov Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant, or PA Yuzhmash (Ukrainian: Виробниче Об'єднання Південний Машинобудівний Завод імені А.М. Макарова; Russian: Производственное Объединение Южный Машиностроительный Завод имени А.М. Макарова; literally Production Association Southern Machine-Building Plant named after A.M. Makarov) is a Ukrainian manufacturer of agricultural equipment, buses, trolley buses and trams, wind turbines, space rockets, and satellites. It is a large state-owned company located in Dnipropetrovsk.

The company has been the key missile producer for Soviet ICBM and space exploration programs. After the beginning of perestroika, demand for such production declined significantly, and Yuzhmash has been partly converted for civil machinery.

Leonid Kuchma, long-time chief manager of the company, became the Prime Minister and later President of Ukraine in the 1990s.

See also

• Yuzhnoe Design Bureau - a major missile designer closely co-operating with Yuzhmash
• National Space Agency of Ukraine

External links

• English-language home page