The gramophone factory of the Order of Lenin "Hammer".
Order of Lenin factory "Molot", Vyatskie Polyany /
In 1938 in the village of Vyatskie Polyany a bobbin factory was opened to serve the needs of the textile industry, the village received the status of a working village.
With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, in autumn 1941, an engineering plant was evacuated to Vyatskie Polyany from Zagorsk outside Moscow. His equipment for the production of the PPSH submachine gun was installed on the territory of the bobbin and reel factory. The first submachine guns were sent to the front at the end of November 1941. In 1942, 1.5 million units were produced. The design bureau of the plant was headed by the creator of the submachine gun Georgy Semenovich Shpagin. This year, the working town received the status of a city. During the war, the collective of the Vyatka-Polyansk Machine-Building Plant produced more than 2.5 million submachine guns of the PPSh, for which in September 1945 the plant was awarded the Order of Lenin.
After the war, the plant along with the military order began to produce peaceful products. The production of gramophone was established, but the demand for them began to decline, since more modern radios and record players appeared at that time. Therefore by the end of 1955 the production of gramophone was stopped.
