Electric locomotive factory Novocherkassk

ООО NEVZ
legal form	Limited Liability Company (Russia)
founding	1946
Seat	Novocherkassk , Rostov Oblast , Russia
management	Sergei Fyodorovich Podust
Number of employees	10,666 ; (August 16, 2013)
sales	13.58 billion rubles (2010, RAS)
Branch	mechanical engineering
Website	www.nevz.com

The Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant ( Russian : ООО "Производственная компания, Новочеркасский электровозостроительный завод '' , Russian abbreviated НЭВЗ or ПК НЭВЗ , literal meaning: GmbH production company Novocherkassk Elektrolokomotivbau work , abbreviated NEVZ or PK NEVZ ) is a 1946 from the steam locomotive factory Novocherkassk Russian (: Новочеркасский паровозостроительный завод) established company for the construction of electric locomotives for freight and express train traffic on main and industrial railways in Russia . The company's headquarters are in Novocherkassk in the Rostov Oblast . NEVZ has been part of Transmashholding since 2004 and entered into a strategic partnership with Alstom in 2010 .

The Novocherkassk electric locomotive factory was one of the largest locomotive factories in the former Soviet Union . By 2011 it had produced more than 16,000 locomotives in 65 different designs . 80% of the freight traffic on the electrified lines of the Russian railways and the railways of the other CIS countries is handled by locomotives from the Novocherkassk electric locomotive factory.

history

The first small series of electric locomotives for the Soviet Union was built by the Moscow electric machine factory Dynamo (Russian: московский электромашиностроительный завод “Динамо”) in cooperation with the Kolomna locomotive factory . It was not until 1946 that the construction of electric locomotives was concentrated in Novocherkassk, when the Novocherkassk steam locomotive factory was converted into the Novocherkassk electric locomotive factory. The Soviet-owned construction of electric locomotives received a strong boost and soon made the plant one of the most important locomotive factories in the world.

Steam locomotive factory Nowotscherkassk NPZ (1932 to 1938)

Tank locomotive 9П

The Novocherkassk plant was built as a steam locomotive factory. In February 1932, the government approved the construction of the factory ten kilometers outside the city, near the Janovo hamlet. The construction of the plant turned out to be difficult because there was no accommodation and no means of transport for the workers, although it was one of the largest construction projects in the young Soviet Union. In 1934 the first two five-story houses of the factory settlement of the steam locomotive builders (Russian: Паровозостроителей), later Sotsgorod, were built. The factory was completed in 1936 and comprised a production hall , a casting model making workshop , a foundry hall , a forge , an administration building and ancillary buildings.

The first locomotives built in Novocherkassk left the plant on May 1, 1936. It was a series of three narrow-gauge industrial steam locomotives of the class 159 with the wheel arrangement D. By 1937 the plant had already produced 70 of these locomotives. The development of the three-coupler tank locomotive of the 9П for use on the broad gauge network and the construction of cranes for peat mining began .

SM Budjonny plant (1938 to 1946)

122 mm cannon M1931 / 37 (A-19)

In 1938 or 1939 the plant was subordinated to the People's Commissariat for Armaments and henceforth named after Marshal Semyon Budjonny as the plant SM Budjonny (Завод им. С. М. Будённого). By 1940 the factory was able to manufacture the 122mm M1931 / 37 (A-19) and 107mm M1940 (M-60) divisional cannon . Cannon production lasted until 1941, after which the production equipment and employees were evacuated to the Urals in Votkinsk , where they made aircraft and howitzers and repaired tanks from then on . During the German occupation, the factory in Novocherkassk was completely destroyed.

Electric locomotive factory Nowotscherkassk NEVZ (from 1946)

1946 to 1960

ВЛ60 ^ПК

Freight locomotive ВЛ80 ^Т

After the fighting of the Second World War in Novocherkassk ended in 1943, the reconstruction of the plant began, which after the decision of the Soviet government on November 6, 1946, was placed under the Ministry of the Electrical Industry and henceforth operated as the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Factory. His job was to manufacture electric locomotives for the Soviet Union.

The plant began to produce six-axle DC locomotives of the ВЛ22 ^м series with the support of the Kolomna plant and the Moscow electrical machine factory Dynamo . The first locomotive left the factory on March 7, 1947, series production followed from 1948. This locomotive soon no longer met the demands of the steadily increasing freight traffic, which is why the new, more powerful series ВЛ8 was developed: an eight-axle DC double locomotive, its prototype 1953 was completed. After a pilot series of seven units in 1955, series production followed from 1956. In the same year, the ВЛ8-009 locomotive left the factory as the thousandth locomotive. Production of this series ended in 1963.

In addition to the ongoing production of DC locomotives, the plant began developing AC locomotives in the 1950s. 1954 left the first six-axle locomotive of the HO series (abbreviation for Новочеркасский Однофазный, in German: Novotscherkassker Einphasen (AC locomotive)), which was later renamed ВЛ61 . The experience gained with this series flowed into the series Н60 developed in 1957, which later became the ВЛ60 .

In addition to the electric locomotives for the main railways, several hundred industrial locomotives were also manufactured, which were also exported to India, Bulgaria, Korea and other countries.

1958 followed the establishment of the All-Russian scientific research and development institute for electric locomotives (Russian: Всероссийский научно-исследовательский и проектно-конструкторский институт электровозостроения, abbreviated ВЭлНИИ, abbreviated in German VELNII ) based in Novocherkassk. From then on, the institute developed the new electric locomotives and created the manufacturing documents for their production by NEVZ.

1960 to 1980

Open pit locomotive ОПЭ1

Electric locomotive Sr1

Electric locomotive ET42

Electric locomotive ВЛ85

Between 1961 and 1975 NEVZ built the following locomotives developed by VELNII:

ВЛ60 ^К : improved variant of the ВЛ60 series with silicon rectifier
ВЛ60 ^ПК : variant of the ВЛ60 ^к series for passenger trains
ВЛ80 ^К : eight-axle double locomotive for freight trains
ВЛ80 ^Т : improved ВЛ80 ^к with electric brake
ВЛ80 ^Р : Variant of the ВЛ80 with DC converter instead of rectifier
ВЛ82 : Two-system version of the ВЛ80 for 3 kV direct current and 25 kV alternating current
ВЛ82 ^M : improved version of the ВЛ82

In addition to the above-mentioned series, which were manufactured in series, VELNII worked on the following series, which did not reach series production:

ВЛ80 ^А : variant of the ВЛ80 with asynchronous motors
ВЛ86 ^ф : six-axle double locomotive with asynchronous motors developed in cooperation with ABB Strömberg
ВЛ80 ^Б : Variant of the ВЛ80 with brushless DC traction motors
ВЛ80 ^БР : variant of the ВЛ80 ^б with recuperation brake
ВЛ81 : Variant of the ВЛ80 with fully sprung traction motors and low-tension linkage of the bogies
ВЛ84 : from the ВЛ81 further developed eight-axle double locomotive, which should replace the ВЛ80.

From June 1 to June 2, 1962, workers at the plant went on strike because of increases in food prices and wage cuts. The workers' uprising was put down by tanks and snipers. According to doubtful official information, 26 people were killed. The event went down in history as the Novocherkassk uprising and is considered to be one of the largest workers' uprisings during the Soviet Union.

In 1969, the production of the ОПЭ1 series open pit locomotives began, and in 1971 the КН-10 electric mine and industrial railway locomotives followed .

From 1973 NEVZ delivered 110 Sr1 locomotives to the Finnish state railway VR . From 1978, locomotives of the ET42 series were built for the Polish state railway PKP , which were derived from the SŽD series ВЛ10 .

After 1978 production increased noticeably. The goal was to increase the output to 470 double locomotives per year by 1985. In a second phase it was planned to build a 30 km long test track for locomotives, which would have replaced the old existing eight km long track, but this never happened. The production of electrical devices and wheel sets should also be started.

1980 to 1995

In 1983 NEVZ built the first two prototypes of the twelve-axle double locomotive of the ВЛ85 series , which was later built in series. The figures from 1983 are given here as an example of production in the 1980s. This year, a total of 677 four-axle locomotive sections or locomotives as well as the mechanical parts for 280 additional sections left the Novocherkassk locomotive factory. They belonged to the following series:

272 electric locomotives ВЛ80 ^P
36 electric locomotives ВЛ80 ^C - an improved version of the ВЛ80, which allows multiple control of several units
5 electric locomotives Sr1 for the Finnish State Railways
2 electric locomotives ВЛ85
26 open pit locomotives ОПЭ-1
Car body and bogies for the production of 140 ВЛ10 locomotives in the Tbilisi electric locomotive factory

The condition in 1984 is an example of the extensive social facilities at the plant in the 1980s. The plant operated its own hospital. There were several medical stations, twelve day nurseries, nine company canteens, five cafes and 27 fast food outlets on the factory premises. NEVZ also operated the Kulturpalast , the cinema , a library each for technical literature and fiction , three sports halls and a sports stadium .

From 1987 to 1990 the plant manufactured 100 8G series locomotives for the Chinese Railways . The work was awarded the Order of Lenin .

At the beginning of the 1990s, locomotives of the series ВЛ10 ^У , ВЛ80 , ВЛ85 and ВЛ65 were manufactured.

1995 to 2004

In 1995 the plant was privatized and traded under the name of OAO "Научно-производственное объединение, Новочеркасский электровозостроительный заводственный новочеркасский электровозостроительный заводственный костороводение водовоский электровозостроительный заводинение " . The plant did not receive any more orders and was practically insolvent . The locomotives of the series ВЛ65 and later ЭП1 were built in small series. The new development ЭП200 did not get beyond the test stage and the six-axle two-system passenger locomotive ЭП10 developed together with ABB Daimler Benz Transportation (Switzerland) was not initially built in series. The entry into the production of electrical equipment for multiple units of the machine works Demichowo was unsuccessful. The cooperation with the electric motor factory Sibstanko from Novosibirsk (Russian: Сибстанкоэлектропривод) was unsuccessful and the trains of the ЭД4М ¹ series were unreliable, so that the construction of the electrical equipment was again awarded to the electrical engineering company Riga in Latvia , which already had the equipment at that time had delivered to the Soviet Union. In 1998 NEVZ only supplied the driver's desks for the ЭТ2М trains manufactured by the Torzhok wagon manufacturer .

From 2004 and future

In 2004 NEVZ was incorporated into Transmashholding . In the same year, the production of the AC locomotive Э5К Ермак (German: E5K Jermak ), a successor to the ВЛ60, began. The turnover in 2005 reached 4.9 billion rubles, the profit 380.2 million rubles. A small series ЭП10 was built. From then on , the gefertigt5К was also manufactured as a 2Э5К double locomotive , which replaces the ВЛ80. In 2006, 156 locomotives were delivered again and the range was supplemented by a cab-free middle section from the Э5К family, which extends the 2Э5К to the three-part 3Э5К . In 2008, locomotives were sold for 14.8 billion rubles, an increase of one and a half times over the previous year. In the same year the production of the direct current locomotive 2ЭС4К Дончак (German: 2ES4K Dontschak ), which replaces the ВЛ10 ^{У, was started} .

In 2007, the plant planned to produce 600 sections of twelve different passenger and freight train series by 2015 , including the new series Э3 , 2ЭС5 and 2ЭС4А with asynchronous traction motors . In 2010, Transmasholding entered into a strategic partnership with Alstom, which will henceforth develop the electrical components for the locomotives. The first locomotives developed together with Alstom were the 2ЭС5, which was presented in 2011 and went into series production in 2013, as well as the six-axle two-system locomotive ЭП20 for passenger trains, of which 200 are to be delivered by 2020. In June 2013 it was announced that a freight train variant as the 2ЭС20 would be manufactured on the basis of the ЭП20 . The first prototype is to be presented in March 2014.

Production 2012 and 2013

locomotive	model series	2012	2013
AC locomotive for passenger trains	ЭП1M	49	13
Two-system locomotive for passenger trains	ЭП20	7th	4th
AC locomotive for freight trains	3ЭС5К	106	21st
DC locomotive for freight trains	2ЭС4К	44	23
DC locomotive for freight trains	2ЭС5	1
Industrial locomotive	НПМ2
Open pit locomotive with motor dump car	НП1	1