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SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: UFA 
ENGINE-BUILDING PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION (UMPO), UFA, 
RUSSIA, LICENSE NO. NLR 
 
 
¶1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided 
below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export 
Administration Act. 
 
¶2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to 
determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- 
user, Ufa Engine-Building Production Association 
(UMPO), Ufa, Russia. The company is listed on BIS 
license application: NLR as the ultimate consignee of 
two laser discs for reproducing sound/image and 
accessories. ECCN 3D991. The exporter is National 
Instruments, 11500 N. Mopac Expressway, Austin, TX 
¶78759. 
 
¶3. On December 18, 2007, Export Control Attache Peter 
Liston and FSN Natalya Shipitsina conducted the 
requested post-shipment verification with UMPO, Ufa, 
Russia. The export control team met with Vyacheslav 
Khristolyubov, Director of Informational Technologies. 
 
¶4. Ufa Engine Building Production Association [Ufa 
engine-building PO] is Russia's largest aircraft 
engine producer. Engines for tractors, gas pumping and 
power units, as well as cutlery, are among other 
products manufactured. It is located in Bashkortostan 
Republic, which has the second largest industrial 
potential in the Ural economic area. Within Russia, 
Bashkortostan is the sixth largest producer of 
industrial products. Ufa Engine Industrial Association 
[Ufa Motors] produces aircraft engines for fighters 
(Su and MiG families), spare parts as well as engines 
for automobiles, gas pumps and turbines and performs 
different maintenance and support services for its 
clients. In 1995 the company was granted export 
rights. Ufa Motors is one of the most profitable 
engine manufacturers with steadily growing sales. 
 
The Ufa Engine Industrial Association (the UMPO in 
Russian) was founded in 1925. The association launched 
the production of the first Soviet jet engines such as 
RD-10, RD-45F, and VK-1A for the MiG and Yak fighters. 
Since the mid-fifties, the Ufa-based Engine Production 
Association has been manufacturing the Mikoyan MiG-19 
RD-9B turbo-jet engines, as well as R11F-300 engines 
for the MiG-21 fighter. Later, the plant developed the 
production of the R11F2-300, R11F2S-300, R-13-300, 
R25-300 derivatives for various MiG-21 and Su-15 
versions, as well as the production of the R-29B-300 
and R29B9-300 third-generation engines intended for 
the Mikoyan MiG-23B, MiG-27 and Sukhoi Su-22 fighter- 
bombers. It also produced the Su-25 R-95Sh non- 
afterburning turbojet engines as well as the improved 
R-195 version designed for the Su-39 attack aircraft. 
Since the late 1980s, the AL-31F fourth-generation 
turbojet engines and their versions for the Su-27 and 
Su-30 fighters being produced both for the Russian Air 
Force and air forces of other countries. 
 
¶5. UMPO stated that the two laser discs for 
reproducing sound/image and accessories are secured 
within the enclosed facility and are used as an 
optical measurement system for vibration diagnostics, 
which is consistent with their business. 
 
¶6. Recommendations: Post recommends Ufa Engine- 
Building Production Association (UMPO), Ufa, Russia as 
reliable recipients of sensitive U.S. origin 
commodities. 
(FCS MOSCOW/JKITSON/PLISTON) 
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