Velta Machine-Building Plant

Velta Machine-Building Plant ({{langx|ru|ОАО «Велта»}}) was a company based in Perm, Russia.

Perm Velta was a large enterprise that produced electronics for the military. It also produced (among several types of consumer goods) bicycles, for which it had about 20% of the Russian market, and auto spare parts. It also exported some bicycles.{{cite web|title=Russian Defense Business Directory|url=https://fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/industry/docs/rus95/index.html|website=Federation of American Scientists|publisher=US Department of Commerce Bureau of Export Administration|access-date=21 July 2017|date=May 1995|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017135244/http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/industry/docs/rus95/index.html|archive-date=17 October 2016}} {{PD-notice}}

The company was established in June 1939 by order of the People's Commissariat of Ammunition.{{cite news|title=Как на патефонном заводе подвеску к "Москвичу" и пластиковый джип делали|url=https://properm.ru/auto/news/145730/|access-date=16 December 2017|work=ПермАвтоПром|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216001400/https://properm.ru/auto/news/145730/|archive-date=16 December 2017}} In 1946 production switched to civilian products such as gramophones, and ten years later, the production of bicycles.

In 1990 the plant became part of the Perm-Avto joint venture with Autokam and FSV International Ltd to produce Rickman Ranger cars under licence. The Velta plant went bankrupt in 2006.{{cite web|title=Открытое акционерное общество "Велта".|url=http://www.archive.perm.ru/projects/weeklyphoto/open-joint-stock-company-velta-/|website=Archive.perm.ru|access-date=23 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029070411/http://www.archive.perm.ru/projects/weeklyphoto/open-joint-stock-company-velta-/|archive-date=29 October 2017}}