Metrovagonmash

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Metrovagonmash
Russian: ОАО "Метровагонмаш"
Industry subway cars and
rail buses
Founded 1897 (1897)
Headquarters Mytishchi, Russia
Area served CIS and
Eastern Europe
Website www.metrowagonmash.ru/
'Mytishchi Machine-building factory
Russian: ОАО "Мытищинский машиностроительный завод"
Industry dump trucks,
armored tracked vehicles
Founded 1897 (1897), 2009 (2009)
Headquarters Mytishchi, Russia
Area served CIS
Website mmzavod.ru
Metro-cars of type 81-740/741 and Ем/Еж in Moscow, metro station Alexandrovsky Sad

Metrowagonmash (Russian: ОАО "Метровагонмаш") is an engineering company in Russia.

The company is located in Mytishchi, near Moscow, and until 1992 it was known as Mytishchi Machine-building factory (Мытищинский машиностроительный завод) which has been a separate company since May 12, 2009.

History

The plant was founded in 1897 (in the village of Big Mytishchi) to manufacture railcars, first for the Russian North Railway. Tramways and snowplows for Moscow have been produced since 1903, electric passenger trains since 1929 and metro-cars since 1934.

During World War II, self-propelled guns, military tractors, tracked vehicles and other military material were produced. The plant was partially evacuated to Ural in October 1941; in 1942 the equipment was back. In 1947, production of dump trucks was started. The company later concentrated on production of subway cars, dump trucks and armored tracked vehicles (e.g. GM chassises). A number of models of Metrovagonmash subway cars have been deployed in nearly every subway (Metro) system of the former Soviet Union, as well as in Budapest, Prague, Sofia and Warsaw.

In 1999 the plant started manufacturing rail buses as well.

The plant also manufactured 137 RA2 Multiple Units between 2006 and 2008.

Gallery

  • Scale models of an EM4 Electric Trainset and a RA2 Multiple Unit at the Museum of the Moscow Railway

  • RA2-0014

  • RA2 at Volgodonskaya train station

  • RA2 at Govardovo station, Kaluga Oblast

  • RA2-04002 at Archeda station

  • 3-car RA2 at Kazan

  • RA-2 at Mytischi railway station, Moscow region, Russia.

  • Serbian railways RA-2

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