The Svobodny Railroad Car Repair Plant or Svobodnensky car-repair plant (russian: Свободненский вагоноремонтный завод) is an enterprise for the repair of

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s. It is located in Svobodny,

Amur region Amur Oblast ( rus, Аму́рская о́бласть, r=Amurskaya oblast, p=ɐˈmurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers in the Russian Far East. The administrative ...

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. The plant is part of the Transvagonmash company.

History

The plant was founded in 1933 under the name Mikhaylo-Chesnokovsky car-repair plant. Since 1968, it has been called Svobodnensky car-repair plant. During the

Great Patriotic War The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sout ...

the company built

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s. The plant now repairs

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cars and makes railroad wheels.

References

Companies based in Amur Oblast Manufacturing companies of Russia Mechanical engineering companies of Russia Manufacturing companies established in 1933 1933 establishments in the Soviet Union Manufacturing companies of the Soviet Union {{Russia-rail-transport-stub