Editing Kalashnikov Concern (section)

=== World War I and the Interwar Period ===
[[File:Ижевский оружейный и сталеделательный заводы.jpg|thumb|Izhevsk Gun and Steel Factories around 1916]]During the [[First World War]], IGSF supplied the [[Imperial Russian Army]] with over 1.4&nbsp;million new rifles and approximately 188,000 remelted shoulder weapons. Prior to the [[Russian Revolution]], the IGSF took leading positions of the Russian [[Arms industry|defense industry]] in terms of manufacturing and manpower capacity. By 1917, about 34,000 people worked at IGSF. In 1918, a [[OKB|design bureau]] was established in the IGSF.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":4" />
[[File:Mosin-Nagant-1891-30 on Cossack hex.jpg|thumb|Stamp on a Mosin-Nagant rifle of the 1924 issue with a hexagonal receiver, Izhevsk Gun and Steel Factories]]After the formation of the [[Soviet Union]] in 1922, large changes came to the IGSF. The state's first [[Hunting|hunting gun]] factory was opened on the enterprise's premises in the same year. The IGSF required more highly trained personnel in order to accommodate new production and to work on newer machines. Thus, by 1929, IGSF-bound personnel had to be trained at the Izhevsk Technical School. In 1930, a new open-hearth furnace was put into operation and in-house production of machines at the factory was launched.<ref name=":0" />

More re-organization took place in the 1930s, including the conversion of the IGSF into a Chief Designer Bureau, as well as the adoption and production of several new models of firearms: a modified [[Mosin–Nagant]] rifle design of 1891/1930, the battle rifle [[AVS-36]], made by [[Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov|Sergei Simonov]], and the [[SVT-40|SVT-38 self-loading rifle]] and the [[TT pistol]], made by [[Fedor Tokarev|Fedor Tokorev]]. This gave rise to a flow line method of production. In 1938, the [[conveyor belt]] was implemented into the assembly of gun barrels and other parts, greatly increasing the production rate of firearms for the [[Soviet Army]]. In 1933, a New Design Bureau, "BNK", was established at the factory to develop and modify firearms. Today, the bureau is named the "Armory Design Center" (KOC). In the bureau's lifetime, about 300 models of small-arms, air ordnance, sport, hunting weapons, and other types of equipment were developed, most of which was in series production at the plant. In 1939, the main plant of the IGSF, Plant No. 180,was split into two independent enterprises: [[Metallurgy|Metallurgical]] Plant No. 71 and Engineering Plant No. 74, which manufactured weapons. Engineering Plant No. 74 would later be renamed the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant, or simply, Izhmash.<ref name=":0" />