Editing Kalashnikov Concern (section)

=== World War II ===
During [[World War II]], Engineering Plant No. 74 served as the main firearm manufacturer for the [[Soviet Armed Forces]]. Since [[Operation Barbarossa]] left the Soviet Union in a very desperate position, the plant produced as many firearms as it was physically capable of, more firearms than its lifespan for 92 years prior. From 1941 to 1942, the plant set up [[mass production]] of [[Vasily Degtyarev]]'s [[PTRD]] [[anti-tank rifle]], [[Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov|Sergei Simonov]]'s [[PTRS-41]] anti-tank rifle, the [[Berezin UB]] aircraft machine gun armament, the 37mm [[Shpitalny Sh-37]] and [[Nudelman-Suranov NS-37]] aircraft guns, and sniper rifles with optic sights, along with the [[TT pistol]] and the [[Nagant M1895]] [[revolver]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2017}} A total of 11,450,000 rifles and carbines were produced in the plant, exceeding all the combined [[Nazi Germany|German]] firearm manufacturers' outputs of 10.3&nbsp;million. Besides firearms, the plant also produced over 15,000 [[Gun turret|aircraft guns]] and over 130,000 [[Anti-tank warfare|anti-tank weapons]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":4" />

On 20 July 1942, Plant No. 622 separated itself from Plant No. 74, using equipment transferred from the evacuated mechanical plants at [[Tula, Russia|Tula]] and [[Podolsk]]. During the war, the plant manufactured more than 1 million [[pistols]] and 200,000 anti-tank rifles. Plant No. 622 would later be renamed as the [[Izhevsk Mechanical Plant]], or simply, Izhmekh.<ref name=":0" />