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Kriukiv Railway Car Manufacturing Plant ( uk, Крюківський вагонобудівний завод, КВБЗ; KVBZ) is a large industrial company in
Kremenchuk
Kremenchuk (; uk, Кременчу́к, Kremenchuk ) is an industrial city in central Ukraine which stands on the banks of the Dnipro River. The city serves as the administrative center of the Kremenchuk Raion (district) in Poltava Oblast (pr ...
,
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
, manufacturing
locomotives
A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. If a locomotive is capable of carrying a payload, it is usually rather referred to as a multiple unit, motor coach, railcar or power car; the u ...
and
multiple unit
A multiple-unit train or simply multiple unit (MU) is a self-propelled train composed of one or more carriages joined together, which when coupled to another multiple unit can be controlled by a single driver, with multiple-unit train contr ...
trains.
History
The foundation for the first buildings of the Krukiv Railway Car Manufacturing Plant was laid in 1869. As for 1900 there have been working 400 workers, who provided repairs for 120 freight and 20 passenger cars per month.
Production
Passenger
*High speed interregional train EKr-1
Tarpan
The term tarpan (''Equus ferus ferus'') refers to free-ranging horses of the Russian steppe from the 18th to the 20th century. It is generally unknown whether those horses represented genuine wild horses, feral domestic horses or hybrids. The las ...
*High speed interregional train
DPKr-2
*High speed interregional train
DPKr-3
*Passenger coaches 779 series
*Passenger coaches 788 series
Products for Metro
*Front metro car mod. 81-7021
*Intermediate metro car mod.81-7037
*Intermediate metro car mod.81-7022
*Front metro car mod. 81-7036
Military vehicles
*
I-52 Mine layer vehicle
The I-52 is a mine-laying vehicle designed in Ukraine by the Kriukiv Machine-building Works.
Purpose and composition
The I-52 Mine-laying vehicle is intended for distant antipersonnel and Anti-tank mine laying. The vehicle ensures mine-laying ...
Formerly
* GSP 55
* PMM 2M
Metalworks
Gallery
File:001parwq.jpg, Intermediate metro car mod.81-7022
File:81-7036-7037 в депо.jpg, Intermediate metro car mod.81-7037
File:EKr1-002.jpg, High speed interregional train EKr-1
File:DPKr3-001 at Kiev-Passenger station (1).jpg, alt=
References
External links
Kriukiv Railway Car Building Works official website (eng.)
Rolling stock manufacturers of Ukraine
Ukrainian brands
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1896
Kremenchuk
Economy of Kremenchuk
Buildings and structures in Poltava Oblast
Manufacturing companies of the Soviet Union
Manufacturing plants in Ukraine
1896 establishments in the Russian Empire
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