Serp i Molot
| Saratovsky zavod “Serp i Molot” (ОАО Саратовский завод “СЕРП и МОЛОТ”) | |
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| legal form |
Open joint- stock company joint- stock company (Russia) |
| founding | 1887 |
| Seat |
Saratov , Saratov Oblast Russia
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| management | Vyacheslav Yuryevich Selepukin |
| Number of employees | 427 |
| Branch | Automotive supplier |
| Website | sarsim.ru |
Serp i Molot ( Russian Серп и Молот , German: sickle and hammer ) is a Russian company with headquarters in Saratov . It is one of the oldest industrial companies in the Volga region, founded by the German industrialist Otto Behring in 1887. The production halls were built on the site of the Saratov dealer Kaiser.
Surrounded by a series of ponds in the 19th century, it became the industrial and commercial center of the city in the 20th century, not far from the Saratov-2 train station. In the 1980s, the USSR Ministry of Automobile, Tractor, Agricultural Machinery Factory was considered a model company in the Volga region. At the peak of the business, 2,000 people were employed here. The main products in the Soviet era were camshafts for tractors , combine harvesters and cars , such as the Lada .
Today the company is highly automated and concentrates on supplying automobile manufacturers such as KAMAZ , GM-AvtoVAZ and GAZ .