Deputy Minister of Defense Yury Borisov visiting Uraltransmash in 2016

Uraltransmash (russian: Уральский завод транспортного машиностроения) is a company based in

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administra ...

, Russia. Currently it is a

subsidiary A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company. Two or more subsidiaries that either belong to the same parent company or having a s ...

Uralvagonzavod UralVagonZavod (russian: ОАО «Научно-производственная корпорация «УралВагонЗавод», , Open Joint Stock Company "Research and Production Corporation Uralvagonzavod") is a Russian machine-buildin ...

. Uraltransmash is Russia's primary producer of self-propelled artillery. Uraltransmash also produces oil drilling rigs and some other civil products. In a 2019 research paper,

RAND Corporation The RAND Corporation (from the phrase "research and development") is an American nonprofit global policy think tank created in 1948 by Douglas Aircraft Company to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces. It is financed ...

assessed the company as being "among the worst run enterprises in the Russian defense industry".

History

The Ural Plant of Transport Engineering is one of the oldest enterprises in the

Ural Ural may refer to: *Ural (region), in Russia and Kazakhstan *Ural Mountains, in Russia and Kazakhstan *Ural (river), in Russia and Kazakhstan * Ual (tool), a mortar tool used by the Bodo people of India *Ural Federal District, in Russia *Ural econ ...

: its history is more than two hundred years old. The foundation of the enterprise was laid by a gold-mining factory founded in 1817 in

. Thirty years later, a machine-building plant was built in its place, making steam engines, boilers,

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 ...

, equipment for the mining industry. After 1917 the plant was nationalized and named «Metallist». After the reconstruction, he began to produce oil-producing and oil-refining equipment, carried out orders for new buildings during the period of industrialization. The modern history of the enterprise began during the

Eastern Front (World War II) The Eastern Front of World War II was a Theater (warfare), theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Polish Armed Forces in the East, Poland and other Allies of World War II, Allies, which encom ...

. In the second half of 1941, collectives of evacuated enterprises from Moscow, Podolsk and Stalingrad were housed in the buildings of the plant. The installation of new equipment began and soon the first light tank

T-60 The T-60 scout tank was a light tank produced by the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1942. During this period, 6,292 units were built. The tank was designed to replace the obsolete T-38 amphibious scout tank and saw action during World War II. The Kin ...

went to the front from the plant. During the first six months of production, the plant produced 1238 light tanks. Since then, the plant has developed or modernized about forty types of military equipment. The company has a design bureau that has created a number of new military products. In 1989, Uraltransmash produced its first self-propelled howitzer, the

2S19 Msta The 2S19 Msta (russian: Мста, after the Msta River) is a 152.4 mm self-propelled howitzer designed by the Soviet Union, which entered service in 1989 as the successor to the 2S3 Akatsiya. The vehicle has the running gear of the T-80, b ...

. Modifications of the Msta-S are still being supplied to the Russian army. In particular, in November 2011, the troops of the Southern Military District in the Chechen Republic received 26 new 2S19M1 Msta-S self-propelled howitzers, which replaced the outdated

2S3 Akatsiya The SO-152 (Russian: СО-152) is a Soviet 152.4 mm self-propelled gun developed in 1968, as a response to the American 155 mm M109 howitzer. Development began in 1967, according to the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Sovie ...

installations. In addition to military products, Uraltransmash manufactures pumping units for oil production, winches for passenger and freight elevators, low-floor trams. In 2012, it is planned to start serial production of trams with batteries. The company was involved in a notable legal case in December 2021, when the

Russian Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (russian: links=no, Верховный суд Российской Федерации, Verkhovny sud Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is a court within the judiciary of Russia and the court of last resort in R ...

issued its judgement in the

PESA The Pesa is a river in Tuscany, central Italy. It has a length of 53 km, and, after crossing the provinces of Siena and Florence, flows into the Arno River near Montelupo Fiorentino Montelupo Fiorentino is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the ...

v. UralTransMash case.

Products

2S12 Sani The 2S12 "Sani" ("sleigh") (GRAU index 2S12) is a 120 mm heavy mortar system used by the Russian Army and other former Soviet states. First fielded in 1981, the 2S12 is a continued development on the towed mortars first used in World War II ...

2S35 Koalitsiya-SV The 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV (russian: 2С35 «Коалиция-СВ», translation="Coalition-SV") is a Russian self-propelled gun first seen in public (initially with its turret covered) in 2015 during rehearsals for the Moscow Victory Day Parade. T ...

71-415 71-415 is the first four-axle Uraltransmash tram on slewing trolleys with full low-level floor. A new chassis trolley with a two-stage spring suspension has been developed for this model. More than 70% of it consists of materials and components a ...

GMZ-3 The GMZ-3 (russian: ГМЗ-3, russian: Гусеничный минный заградитель-3, translit=Gusenichnyi minnyi zagraditel-3 or "Tracked Minelayer-3") is an armoured minelayer, minelaying vehicle developed for the Engineering Troops ...

References

External links

Official website
Manufacturing companies based in Yekaterinburg Uralvagonzavod Ministry of the Defense Industry (Soviet Union) Defence companies of the Soviet Union {{Russia-company-stub