Rolling stock manufacturers of Russia

This page contains an overview of rolling stock manufacturing in Russia, including historical as well as current information.

History

• 1834: the Cherepanov brothers, engineers of the Nizhny Tagil, build Russia's first steam locomotive.
• 1837: the Tsarskoye Selo Railway, Russia's first public railway, opens.
• 1845: the Alexander Factory in St. Petersburg (current Proletarian Factory) builds its first locomotives.
• 1868: the Kolomna Factory and Kama-Votkinsk starts production.
• 1870: the Malcev Plant and Nevsky Plant starts production.
• 1924: the first Russian mainline diesel locomotives enter service, the E^el2 and Shch-el 1 .
• 1926: the first electrified suburban section of the Baku-Sabunçu railway is put into service, marking the beginning of commuter train production.
• 1932: the first electrified railway through the Surami Pass is opened, and the first Soviet mainline electric locomotive is put into service.
• During the Great Patriotic War, production of diesel and electric locomotives was discontinued, and only the production of steam locomotives remained.
• After the war, some factories stopped production of steam locomotives and focused on diesel and electric locomotives.
• 1956: at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, it is decided early on to mass-produce electric and diesel locomotives as a preferred type of traction. Numerous steam locomotives are mothballed as a strategic reserve.
• 1958: imports of passenger electric locomotives from Czechoslovakia.
• 1959: the first Soviet gas turbine-electric locomotive, model G1, is introduced.
• 1974: the Soviet Union's first high-speed train, the ER200, is constructed. Commercial operation started in 1984 on the Moscow - Leningrad railway, which was discontinued in 2009.
• 2002: Transmashholding (closed joint stock company) forms.

Manufacturers of locomotives and multiple units

Included Transmashholding

Name	Location	Founded	Parent company	Types
Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant	Novocherkassk	1932	passenger and freight mainline electric locomotives, industrial electric locomotives	passengers :EP1M, EP1P, EP20 freights: 2ES5K, 3ES5K, 2ES4K, 2ES5, E5K industrial :NPM2, NP1 (tractor unit)
Kolomna Plant	Kolomna	1863	passenger and freight mainline diesel locomotives, passenger mainline electric locomotives	passenger diesel locomotives: TEP70BS, TEP70U freight diesel locomotive: 2TE70 passenger elctric locomotive: EP2K
Bryansk Engineering Plant	Bryansk	1873	freight mainline diesel locomotives, shunting diesel locomotives	freight:2TE25A shuntings: TEM18DM, TEM18V, TEM-TMH
Demikhovsky Engineering Plant (DMZ)	Demikhova village, Orehovo-Zuyevskii Raion, Moscow Region	1935	electric trainset	ED4M, ED4M 500 series, ED9E
Metrovagonmash	Mytishchi	1897	subway cars, "rail buses" (passenger railcars for commuting)	subway cars: 81-717M, 81-740/741 "Rusich", 81-760/761 "Oka", 81-718/719, 81-720/721 "Yauza" "rail buses": RA1 model 730, RA2

Other

Name	Location	Founded	Parent company	Types	Models of rolling stock
Ural Locomotives	Verkhnyaya Pyshma	2010	joint venture Sinara transport machines (51%)and Siemens (49%)	freight electric locomotives, EMUs	freight locomotives: 2ES6, 2ES10 "Granite" EMU: ES1 "Lastochka" (rus.Swallow) (platform is based on Siemens Desiro)
Lyudinovsky Locomotive Plant	Lyudinovo	1745	Sinara transport machines	shunting diesel locomotives, railcars	shunting locomotives: TGM4B, TGM6D, TEM7A, TEM9, TEM14 railcar: AS4MU
Muromteplovoz	Murom	1916		shunting diesel locomotives, railcars, small locomotives, self-propelled railroad cars	shunting locomotive: TGM23 small locomotives: MGM-1, MGM-3 railcars: AS5, AGD-1A, ARV(M)-1, ARV-1, AST-2, AGS-1Ch self-propelled railroad car: SV-10
Kambarka Engineering Works	Kambarka	1767	more than 50% of shares owned by Alexander Biryukov (general director), 12% - in the management of the government of Udmurtia	narrow gauge diesel locomotives, shunting diesel locomotives, narrow gauge locomotives-draisines, small locomotives, construction and repair train service railcars, locomotives for children's railways, machinery defectoscopic and ultrasonic testing of rails, mounting railcars, snowplows	narrow gauge locomotives: TU7A, TU8 shunting locomotive: TGM40 small locomotive: MTK-1 locomotives for children's railways: TU10
Kalugaputmash	Kaluga	1874	closed unit investment fund of mixed investments "spectrum" under control of the company TransFinGroup (96,61%)	shunting diesel locomotives, railcars service, traction machine, railway cranes, self-propelled rail welding machine, self-propelled tamping-liner-straightening machines, ballast distributors	shunting locomotives: TGK2M
Kirov mashzavod of May 1	Kirov	1899		track machines, railway cranes
Istinsky Machine Works	village Iste, Starozhilovsky District, Ryazan Oblast	1713		track machines
Tulazheldormash	Tula	1869		track machines
Torzhok Carriage Works	Torzhok	1916		diesel multiple unit	DT1

Manufacturers of railway wagons

Name	Location	Founded	Parent company	Types
Tver Carriage Works	Tver	1898	Transmashholding	passenger one-story and double-decker cars haul, staff cars, commuter passenger cars, dining cars, escort cars, laundry wagons, wagons for transportation of money and jewelry, cars for transportation of prisoners, wagons for hospital transport NPP wagons for transportation of spent nuclear fuel
RM Rail	Saransk, Moscow (headquarters), plants in Saransk, Ruzaevka, Abakan	2013	Russian machines holding under control of the financial industrial group Basic Element	tanks for petroleum and petroleum products, viscous oil, liquefied petroleum gas, chemical and special cargo hopper cars for transportation of cement, grain, fertilizer, granular sulfur, flat wagons, trucks, car carriers, rail cars, containers
Uralwagonsawod	Nizhny Tagil	1936		tanks, platforms, gondolas, hoppers
Altaiwagon	Novoaltaysk, Rubtsovsk, Kemerovo	1941	Siberian Business Union	boxcars, vesopoverochnye cars, gondola, platforms, tanks
Kaliningrad Carriage Works	Kaliningrad	1946		dump cars
Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant	Tikhvin	2011	ICT Group	hopper cars, gondola with a dull body, universal gondolas, platforms

Academic and research institutions

• All-Russian Research Institute of Railway Transport (VNIIZhT) is located in Moscow and was founded in 1918. It also has branches in Ekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Belorechensk, and Irkutsk.
• An experimental ring railroad, VNIIZhT, was commissioned in 1932. It is located in Shcherbinka and consists of research laboratories, three electrified circular paths, and item management pilot ring. Experimental ring is intended for complex testing of locomotives, multiple units, coaches, track structure elements, devices, components and equipment.
• All-Union Scientific and Research, Planning and Design Technological Institute on Electric Locomotives Building (VELNII), belongs to Transmashholding.

See also

• Rail transport in Russia

Links

• Union of industries of Railway Equipment official site
• The Federal Agency for Railway Transport (Roszheldor) official site