The Central Design Bureau TsKB-3 (renamed KBAL in 1966) was created by order of the People's Commissar of Arms D.F. Ustinova in 1944 as the head design and technological organization of the cartridge industry.
When creating the KBAL, the task was to re-equip the cartridge industry based on domestic materials, technologies and equipment in exchange for foreign developments and supplies, on the basis of which the cartridge industry of Russia was built from the beginning of its foundation in 1869.
The first director of the enterprise was Lev Nikolayevich Koshkin, the founder of comprehensive production automation based on rotor and rotor conveyor lines in our country, Hero of Socialist Labor, Lenin and State Prize Laureate, Honored Inventor of the USSR, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the All-Union Agricultural Institute , Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor.
The main field of activity of the enterprise are:
