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The main activities of Shvabe are the development and serial production of optical and laser systems and complexes, modern optical materials and technologies, high-tech medical equipment, aerospace monitoring systems and remote sensing of the Earth, instruments for scientific research, energy-efficient lighting, nanomechanics, and other high-tech products. The range of products manufactured at the enterprises of the holding exceeds 6500 units. Shvabe has unique technologies in the development and production of optical materials, acoustooptics, low-temperature optics, high-energy lasers, as well as in the processing of large-size astronomical optics.

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• 28.04.2026 The Shvabe holding company has supplied more than 30 anesthesia and respiratory devices to hospitals and maternity hospitals in the Moscow region.
• 27.04.2026 A photo exhibition about the first human spaceflight opened in Nizhny Novgorod with the participation of Shvabe.
• 24.04.2026 Smart traffic lights from Shvabe Holding will help combat traffic congestion in the Sverdlovsk Region.
• 23.04.2026 Contribution to national health: Shvabe employees donated over 200 liters of blood
• 14.04.2026 Shvabe enterprises have created thousands of products for space exploration.
• 06.04.2026 Rostec's unique laser microscope is helping create cancer treatments at Russia's largest medical center.
• 01.04.2026 Moscow's SAPPHIRE Plant: 95 Years of Leadership in the Optical Industry
• 26.03.2026 The Shvabe holding company delivered over 100 units of medical equipment for newborn care to Crimea.
• 24.03.2026 Young optical engineers presented innovative developments in photosensorics at the Shvabe conference.
• 16.03.2026 Rostec State Corporation's Shvabe Holding Company has confirmed its leadership in optics.
• 12.03.2026 Around 10,000 women work at Shvabe production facilities in eight regions of Russia.
• 26.02.2026 A new laboratory for training personnel for Shvabe has been opened at Vologda State University at the initiative of VOMZ.
• 25.02.2026 Shvabe Holding introduced members of the First Movement to the production of space optics.
• 18.02.2026 The State Research Center of the Shvabe Holding celebrated its 80th anniversary.
• 17.02.2026 Shvabe Holding supplied “smart” incubators to the perinatal center of St. Petersburg
• 13.02.2026 The Shvabe equipment will allow the Elektro-L satellite to obtain highly detailed images of the Earth's disk.
• 12.02.2026 Shvabe expands scientific collaboration with the Moscow Planetarium
• 09.02.2026 Shvabe Holding delivered over 30,000 germanium wafers for satellite solar panels in 2025.
• 06.02.2026 Shvabe batteries have been providing energy security to Novosibirsk for over two years.
• 04.02.2026 optics will help track space objects in near-Earth space.