Workers of Ural Locomotives with Vladimir Putin

Ural Locomotives (russian: Уральские локомотивы) is a railway engineering company formed as a joint venture between

Sinara Transport Machines Sinara Transport Machines (russian: ОАО «Синара – Транспортные машины») is a Russian transportation vehicle manufacturing and engineering company based in Ekaterinburg. The company was established in 2007 as a d ...

and

Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', '' ...

in 2010. The manufacturing facilities are based at the Ural Railway Engineering Plant in

Verkhnyaya Pyshma Verkhnyaya Pyshma (russian: Ве́рхняя Пышма́) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located north of Yekaterinburg. Population: History It was founded in 1660 as the village ('' selo'') of Pyshminskoye, which was named after ...

, which was incorporated into the Sinara Group in 2004. In October 2004 the plant began collaboration with

RZD Russian Railways (russian: link=no, ОАО «Российские железные дороги» (ОАО «РЖД»), OAO Rossiyskie zheleznye dorogi (OAO RZhD)) is a Russian fully state-owned vertically integrated railway company, both mana ...

with the aim of production of electric freight locomotives.

History

The Ural Railway Engineering Plant was formed to locate a DC electric freight locomotive production site within Russian territory; formerly, during the

Soviet era The history of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (USSR) reflects a period of change for both Russia and the world. Though the terms "Soviet Russia" and "Soviet Union" often are synonymous in everyday speech (either acknowledging the dominance ...

DC electric locomotive production in the USSR had been located in

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the Capital city, capital and the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia, lying on the ...

in Georgia. Initially the plant was involved in the upgrading of electric locomotives of type

VL11 The VL11 russian: ВЛ11 is an electric mainline DC freight and passenger locomotive, built in Georgia, used in Russia and Ukraine. The initials ''VL'' are those of Vladimir Lenin (ru: Владимир Ленин), after whom the class is named. ...

''(ВЛ11)'', by 2006 the plant had produced the first unit of electric locomotive 2ES6 ''(2ЭС6)'', which was certified for use by 2008. By 2009 production capacity for up to 60 twin-unit locomotives per year had been installed. In 2010 a joint venture with

(49% Siemens holding) named ''ООО "Уральские локомотивы"'' (Ural Locomotives) was formed to produce electric freight locomotives utilising asynchronous traction. The Sinara Group production facilities in Russia were to be based at the factory in

. The joint venture included a technology transfer agreement, with electrical traction components manufactured at Siemens' St. Petersburg plant "''Сименс Электропривод''". The locomotive produced as a result of the venture were the 2ES10 ''(2ЭС10)'' type. The first 2ES10 unit was produced in early 2011. File:2ES6-010-Izynsky-Bugotak.jpg, 2ES6 "Sinara" (2006-current)- eight-axle two-piece main cargo electric locomotive DC commutator motors. File:2ЭС10-001 "Granit" electric locomotive.jpg, 2ES10 "Granit" (2010-current)- one of the most powerful in Europe, Russia and eight-axle articulated trucks DC electric locomotives with asynchronous traction drive. Design developed by the Department of Research and Development, LLC "Ural Locomotives" and the group

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