Vavilova, opened in Minsk 1957 and named after the Soviet physicist Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891–1951).
[1] The factory also produces gas meters, car units, infra-red emitters, juicers and other civil products.
[1] In 2022, BelOMO was blacklisted by the European Union, the US, Switzerland and Japan, in response to Belarus's enabling of and support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
[8] In April 2024, Dzmitry Mikhaltsou, the technical director of the Vavilov Plant, was also added to the SDN list.
[10] In July, Switzerland,[11] Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Ukraine[12] joined these sanctions; New Zealand blacklisted BelOMO and Moroz in September.