The gun was designed by the F. F. Petrov Design Bureau on the basis of the D-44 85-mm divisional gun and production of the D-48 began in 1953 at the No. 75 factory in Yurga.
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The nearby cities of Kemerovo Oblast: Prokopyevsk (15 km), Mezhdurechensk (79 km), Kiselyovsk (24 km), Osinniki (38 km), Belovo (77 km), Tashtagol (133 km), Kemerovo (177 km), Anzhero-Sudzhensk (258 km), Leninsk-Kuznetsky (105 km), Yurga (248 km), Guryevsk (81 km), Mariinsk (273 km) can be reached by taxi and local bus lines.