Omsktransmash (russian: Омский завод транспортного машиностроения, , Omsk transport machine factory) is a wholly state-owned engineering company based in the city of
Omsk
Omsk (; rus, Омск, p=omsk) is the administrative center and largest city of Omsk Oblast, Russia. It is situated in southwestern Siberia, and has a population of over 1.1 million. Omsk is the third largest city in Siberia after Novosibirsk ...
, Russia. The company was best known in the West during the
Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...
period for its production of armoured vehicles such as the
T-80 tank.
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''www.gobalsecurity.org'' The design bureau of the company, KBTM, was also responsible for the
BTR-T
The BTR-T (Russian: Бронетранспортёр-Тяжелый (''Bronetransporter-Tyazhelyy''), ‘Armoured Transporter–Heavy’) is a Russian heavy infantry combat vehicle, designed by the Design Bureau of Transport Machine-Building (Om ...
,
TOS-1 and
2S19 "Msta-S".
History
The beginnings of the organisation were in 1896 with the creation of a railway engineering workshop.
The plant expanded in 1942 and gained its current importance when factories in Ukraine (
Luhanskteplovoz) and Leningrad were evacuated to beyond the Ural mountains during the second world war.
During that period the plant produced the
T-34 tank.
Tractor production began in 1993.
In the post-Soviet Union period the state's decision to fund tank production at
Uralvagonzavod in
Nizhny Tagil (manufacturer of the
T-90 tank) at the expense of the Omsk factory caused financial ruin for the company. The organisation had designed a new prototype tank, named
Black Eagle but it did not enter production. Although the plant received work modernising T-62 and T-72 tanks this did not provide sufficient income and in 2002 the company went bankrupt.
In 2004 the design arm of the business was absorbed into Uralvagonzavod.
The military production at the plant was acquired by JSC KBTM (ОАО Конструкторское бюро транспортного машиностроения)
[Joint stock company "Design Bureau of Transport Machinery"] in 2007
[Russia: No Idea What To Do With "Surplus" Tank Plant](_blank)
1/9/2009 ''www.rusbiznews.com''
In 2008 bids were taken for the sale of the non-military part of the enterprise, the winner being
ChTZ-Uraltrak (ЧТЗ-Уралтрак).
[Tracked vehicle manufacturer] However, the transaction was disallowed by the monopoly commission
Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) (russian: Федеральная антимонопольная служба (ФАС)) due to complaints from Uraltrak's creditors
Sberbank that they had not been paid.
In December 2009, JSC KBTM purchased the second part of Omsktransmash using funds provided by the Federal government.
On 12 September 2022, CEO of the Omsktransmash plant Vasily Kovalev announced that since the beginning of the
Great Patriotic War for more than 80 years ago, the plant produced almost 30,000 various tanks starting with the famous
T-34 model to the latest
T-80BVM modification.
Products and facilities
As well as formerly manufacturing tanks and other military vehicles, the company also produces a variety of wheeled industrial vehicles in both two- and four-wheel drive based on a 'tractor' chassis:
[ГУП “Омский завод транспортного машиностроения”](_blank)
SUE Omsk transport machine factory, ''www.avtomash.ru''
Other products include "Омь-1,5" and "Омь-2,0" washing machines, gate valves for pipelines, jacks, conveyors and other general industrial machinery and tools.
See also
*
Kirov Plant Tank and machine building factory in St. Petersburg
Notes
References
External links
* , official website
** , former official website
Omsktransmash''globalsecurity.org''
{{Uralvagonzavod
Manufacturing companies of the Soviet Union
Defence companies of the Soviet Union
Companies based in Omsk
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