Rolling stock manufacturers of Russia

This is an overview of rolling stock manufacturers of Russia, which includes historical and current information.

History

In 1834 the Cherepanov brothers, engineers from the Nizhny Tagil Iron and Steel Plant, built Russia's first steam locomotive. Three years later the Tsarskoye Selo Railway, the country's first public railway, opened. In 1845, the Alexander Factory in Saint Petersburg built its first locomotives. The Kolomna Factory and Kama-Votkinsk began production in 1868. Two years later, the Malcev and Nevsky Plants began production. In 1924 the first Russian mainline diesel locomotives, the E el-2 and Shch-el 1, entered service. Two years later the first electrified suburban section of the Baku-Sabunçu railway was put into service, marking the beginning of commuter-train production. In 1932, the first electrified railway through the Surami Pass opened and the first Soviet mainline electric locomotive was put into service.

During the Great Patriotic War, production of diesel and electric locomotives was suspended; only steam locomotives were produced. After the war, some factories shifted their focus from steam to diesel and electric locomotives. In 1956, at the 20th Party Congress, it was decided to mass-produce electric and diesel locomotives and mothball steam locomotives as a strategic reserve. Two years later, imports of passenger electric locomotives from Czechoslovakia began. In 1959 the first Soviet gas turbine-electric locomotive, the model G1, was introduced. The Soviet Union's first high-speed train, the ER200, was built in 1974. Commercial operation began in 1984 on the Moscow - Leningrad railway, and was discontinued in 2009. In 2002 Transmashholding, a closed joint-stock company, was formed.

Locomotive and multiple-unit manufacturers
Transmashholding
Name Location Founded Parent company Types
Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive PlantNovocherkassk1932Passenger and freight mainline electric locomotives, industrial electric locomotives
  • Passenger: EP1M, EP1P, EP20
  • Freight: 2ES5K, 3ES5K, 2ES4K, 2ES5, E5K
  • Industrial: NPM2, NP1 (tractor unit)
Kolomna PlantKolomna1863Passenger and freight mainline diesel locomotives, passenger mainline electric locomotives
  • Passenger diesel locomotives: TEP70BS, TEP70U
  • Freight diesel locomotive: 2TE70
  • Passenger electric locomotive: EP2K
Bryansk Engineering PlantBryansk1873Freight mainline diesel locomotives, shunting diesel locomotives
  • Freight:2TE25A
  • Shunting: TEM18DM, TEM18V, TEM-TMH
Demikhovsky Machine-building Plant (DMZ)Demikhova, Orehovo-Zuyevskii Raion, Moscow Region1935Electric trainsED4M, ED4M 500 series, ED9E
MetrovagonmashMytishchi1897Subway cars, railcars
Other manufacturers
Name Location Founded Parent company Types Models
Ural LocomotivesVerkhnyaya Pyshma2010Joint venture Sinara transport machines (51%) and Siemens (49%)Freight electric locomotives, EMUs
Lyudinovsky Locomotive PlantLyudinovo1745Sinara transport machinesShunting diesel locomotives, railcars
  • Shunting: TGM4B, TGM6D, TEM7A, TEM9, TEM14
  • Railcar: AS4MU
MuromteplovozMurom1916Shunting diesel locomotives, railcars, small locomotives, self-propelled railroad cars
  • Shunting: 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 WorksKambarka1767More than 50% owned by general director Alexander Biryukov, 12% managed by Udmurtian governmentNarrow-gauge diesel locomotives, shunting diesel locomotives, narrow-gauge draisines, small locomotives, railcars, children's-railway locomotives, rail-testing equipment, snowplows
  • Narrow-gauge locomotives: TU7A, TU8
  • Shunting: TGM40
  • Small locomotive: MTK-1
  • Children's locomotive: TU10
KalugaputmashKaluga1874Investment fund managed by TransFinGroup (96.61%)Shunting diesel locomotives, railcar service, traction engines, railway cranes, rail-welding machines, tamping machinesShunting: TGK2M
Kirov May 1 MashzavodKirov1899Track machines, railway cranes
Istinsky Machine WorksIste, Starozhilovsky District, Ryazan Oblast1713Track machines
TulazheldormashTula1869Track machines
Torzhok Carriage WorksTorzhok1916Diesel multiple unitsDT1

Railway-wagon manufacturers
Name Location Founded Parent company Types
Tver Carriage WorksTver1898TransmashholdingPassenger cars: one-story and double-decker cars, staff cars, commuter passenger cars, dining cars, escort cars, cars for laundry, valuables, prisoners, hospital transport and transporting spent nuclear fuel
RM RailSaransk, Moscow (headquarters), plants in Saransk, Ruzaevka and Abakan2013Basic ElementFreight cars: Tank cars for petroleum and petroleum products, viscous oil and liquefied petroleum gas; chemical and special-cargo hopper cars for cement, grain, fertilizer, granular sulfur, flat wagons, trucks, cars, railcars and containers
UralwagonsawodNizhny Tagil1936Freight cars: Tanks, platforms, gondolas, hoppers
AltaiwagonNovoaltaysk, Rubtsovsk, Kemerovo1941Siberian Business UnionFreight cars: Boxcars, gondolas, platforms, tanks
Kaliningrad Carriage WorksKaliningrad1946Freight cars: Dump cars
Tikhvin Railway Car Building PlantTikhvin2011ICT GroupFreight cars: Hopper cars, gondolas, platforms

Academic and research institutions

The All-Russian Research Institute of Railway Transport (VNIIZhT), in Moscow, was founded in 1918. It has branches in Ekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Belorechensk, and Irkutsk. An experimental ring railroad, VNIIZhT, was commissioned in 1932. Located in Shcherbinka, it includes of research laboratories and three electrified circular lines. The experimental ring is intended to testlocomotives, multiple units, coaches, track elements and other equipment. The All-Union Scientific and Research, Planning and Design Technological Institute on Electric Locomotives Building (VELNII) is a subsidiary of Transmashholding.

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