Krasnoye Sormovo Factory No. 112

Coordinates: 56°22′N 43°52′E / 56.367°N 43.867°E / 56.367; 43.867
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56°22′N 43°52′E / 56.367°N 43.867°E / 56.367; 43.867

Krasnoye Sormovo
United Shipbuilding Corporation
Websitekrsormovo.nnov.ru
A sampling of wartime products of Krasnoye Sormovo and other Nizhny Novgorod plants is on display in Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin

Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard No. 112 named after Andrei Zhdanov (Russian: Судостроительное предприятие "Кра́сное Со́рмово" имени А. А. Жданова) is one of the oldest shipbuilding factories in Russia, located in the Sormovsky City District of Nizhny Novgorod (formerly called Gorky).

Early history

The shipyard was established in 1849 by companies Nizhny Novgorod Machine Factory (Нижегородская машинная фабрика) and Volga Steam Navigation (Волжское пароходство). It was originally called the Nizhny Novgorod Machine Factory. In 1851, the factory began the construction of solid metal

pontoons, and projectiles
.

Steam locomotive builder

Od steam loco at Sormovo Factory

Since 1898, one of the chief products of Sormovo Works was

Krauss Lokomotive Works in Munich, Germany until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Krauss sold its first 1,524 mm (5 ft) gauge steam locomotive to Eisenwerke Sormovo in 1884. Named W.Schlüter Krauss factory type 60 an 0-4-0T (Bt-n2) under its works number 1178 / 1884. The second locomotive followed in 1885, a 900 mm
(2 ft 11+7⁄16 in) gauge 0-4-0T (Bt-n2) to Sormovo's internal industrial railway with Krauss works number 1668 / 1885.

During 1898–1917, Sormovo Works built 2164 steam locomotives. During 1918–1935, another 1111 standard Russian 1,524 mm

German-Soviet War
of 1941-45, the steam locomotive production resumed; this time on the production line was the fourth and last version of standard Soviet passenger type Su 2-6-2 (1C1-h2) steam locomotives. Overall, 411 steam locomotives were built in 1947–1951.

The total steam locomotive production during 1898–1951 was 3886 steam locomotives. (Rakov 1995)

Military production

During the

German-Soviet War of 1941-1945, the Krasnoye Sormovo Factory produced T-34 medium tanks. The turret for the upgunned T-34-85 was designed here by V. Kerichev in 1943.[1]

After the war: shipbuilding

A Raketa hydrofoil on the Volga

After the war, the factory switched to the sectional and large-block construction of ships, sea and river

radioisotope technology, produced the first Soviet hydrofoils (Raketa), designed. They also built passenger diesel-electric ships Lenin and Soviet Union for the Volga River Navigation company, the first high-speed passenger hovercraft Sormovich, a few diesel-electric railroad ferries for the Baku-Krasnovodsk route, and a unique 250-tonne double-hulled floating crane Kyor-Ogly. Currently, this company is in charge of a cruise ship named after Mustai Karim
, a Bashkir Soviet poet, writer and playwright.

Awards

The Krasnoye Sormovo Factory was awarded two

Orders of Lenin (1943, 1949), Order of the October Revolution (1970), Order of the Patriotic War (1 Class, 1945), and Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1939). The factory is now a part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation
.

See also

References

  1. ^ Zaloga 1984:166.

Bibliography

  • Zaloga, Steven J., James Grandsen (1984). Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two. London: Arms and Armour Press.
    ISBN 0-85368-606-8
    .
  • Vitali A. Rakov (
    ISBN 5-277-00821-7
    .

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