'Sokol Aircraft-Building Plant') is a manufacturer of MiG fighters, based in Nizhny Novgorod.

During 45 years of serial production the plant manufactured about 13,500 combat aircraft.

For a long time, it was considered that district's most important industrial enterprise and main employer.

To help financing, Sokol diversified after the Cold War and during the financially desperate 1990s in Russia.

Hardly anybody ordered new fighter jets, so Sokol even produced cutlery to become less dependent of the aviation sector.