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Business Profile



The company was founded in 1924 and during 80 years of its history passed a complicated way from a sewing workshop to a modern company. All the business processes in the JSC correspond to the International Quality Standard ISO – 9001.

Today Polyot is:

- a skilled labor collective of 600 highly experienced specialists;
- production methods corresponding to the worldwide progress trends;
- a high quality production which is being perfected constantly and which meets the customer’s demands.

Since 1941 the company has been working in an industrial sector – parachute systems manufacture.

From date of its foundation and till the present time the company is confirming its slogan “To be always up to the mark!” . The wish to improve constantly existing technologies, to produce new goods and to offer high quality services has become the decisive factor in the aspiration for being really “Up to the mark!”

JSC Polyot – is the only company in Russia of a full cycle for the parachute systems’ production. The structure of the company consists of: own sewing production and own metal parts production, a design office, textile and chemical laboratories, own group of investigators. This means that all the basic parachute subsystems are manufactured in one company, therefore you can confide in reliability and quality of the JSC Polyot parachute.

The goods of the company are subjected to the military acceptance VP PZ Nr. 61. At all the production cycle stages the parachute systems are inspected on several levels: initiative level, interoperational level and inspection of complete products.

The Ivanovo parachute works produces:

Reliable and safety parachute systems of different types:
- Troop-type main parachute systems,

- Sports parachute systems,

- Training parachute systems,

- Reserve parachute systems,

- Special – purpose parachute systems,

- Break - landing parachute systems,

- Individual models (made to order).

- Clothing,
- Consumer goods.


Company management structure

Director General (CEO)
Senior Principle Engineer
Deputy Director General on Finance
Deputy Director General on Supply
Deputy Director General on Overhead Questions
Chief Power Engineer
Deputy Director General on Reconstruction
Chief Designer
Other Specialists and Managers,
Production divisions and lines


Customers of the JSC Polyot:

- Russian airborne troops;
- Military, military and transport aircraft and civil aviation of the Russian Federation and other countries;
- Sports clubs of ROSTO (Russian Defense – and Sports Technical Association).


Mission of the JSC Polyot:

- to manufacture world - wide known production providing a high defensive capacity of Russia and to represent Russia worthily abroad;
- to manufacture high quality production in which confide professionals and which is appreciated by amateurs;
- to maintain the corporative image of the company as a reliable partner, manufacturer of modern, reliable and top-quality goods;
- to carry out a united social policy on company basis and beyond the company.


The JSC Polyot realizes its mission successfully thanks to its professional staff, unique technologies (own metal parts production, own design office and own sewing manufacture), top-quality goods. These are parameters which determine advantages of the company as compared to competitors.

Importance of the company for the economy and defensive capacity of our country are defined by the following data:

- 80 % of all the parachutes of the Russian airborne troops are produced in the JSC Polyot,
- 20% - a share of Polyot in the Russian sport parachute market,
- 600 of experienced trained men manufacture the goods which find a market in our country and abroad.

JSC Polyot has a certificate of the Quality Systems Certification Committee of the Institute of Military Equipment tests and certification for development, production and utilization of the parachute equipment in accordance with requirements GOST R ISO 9001-2001.

JSC Polyot is the first Russian company being a member of the PIA, USA since 2003.