[2] Both of its factories were taken over and operated by the Soviets, until eventually being closed in 1922, after having produced 1056 aircraft in Odesa, and 50 at a second location they had opened 500 km (310 mi) away, in Simferopol, in Crimea.
The first was the DM or Anamon single-seat monoplane with a wooden monocoque fuselage (that might have inspired its name) that resembled the pre-war Deperdussin TT.
[8] Armament was a single Vickers machine gun with deflector plates on the propellers instead of an interrupter gear, and power was provided by a 75 kW (100 hp) Gnome Monosoupape rotary engine.
[9] The single example was completed as a two-seater and it first flew on 23 October 1916, and on a later flight to Western Europe it was lost in a forced landing in Romania.
[8] Vassili Nikolayevich Khioni, a designer with Anatra, was responsible[3] for the Anadva (short for Anade 2, and nicknamed Двухвостка, Russian for twin-tailed.