The joint company Moscow Helicopter Plant named after M. L. Mil (MVZ) is a leading developer of rotary wing aircraft in Russia, as well as a universally recognized world`s leader in helicopter building. It was founded by Designer General Mikhail Leontyevich Mil. This years the enterprise is celebrating the 55th anniversary since the foundation.

The main fields of the MVZ`s activity include prototype designing and R and D, projecting, assembling helicopter prototypes, putting them into mass production, as well as certification, modernization, follow-on of both military and commercial choppers, and also renewal of overhaul-period and service life of all the Mi family.

Specialists of the MVZ developed a variety of helicopters of all types and classes, including light, medium and unique heavy ones, as well as specialized and multi-role, ground and deck based and many others. The fifty-five-year work resulted in one and a half dozen basic models, to say nothing of a greater deal of derivatives (totaling over 200). Almost all the models were put into mass production, their specifications and cost effectiveness being second to none or even superior to the best foreign equivalents.