Trolsa

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The Trollejbusny Zavod logo on the nameplate of a SiU-682G-016.03 trolleybus manufactured in 2006

Trollejbusny Sawod ( Russian ЗАО "Троллейбусный завод" , abbreviated Тролза - Trolsa or Trolza in English transliteration, trolleybus plant) is a Russian manufacturer of trolleybuses based in Engels , Saratov Oblast . Until 1996 the plant was called Zavod imeni Urizkogo (Urizki plant), or SiU for short .

history

The company's history began in 1868 when it was founded near the village of Radiza in Ujesd Bryansk in the Orjol governorate under the name Radiza Steam Locomotive Construction Factory ( Russian Радицкий паровозостроительный завод ). This plant manufactured steam locomotives , railroad cars and other railroad vehicles. In 1919, the company and the workers' settlement were finally renamed after the revolutionary Moissei Solomonowitsch Urizki . Since then it has had the new official name Uritski-Waggonbaufabrik ( Russian Урицкий вагоностроительный завод ). After the outbreak of war between the Soviet Union and the Third Reich , the company moved to its current location. During the war it was used for arms production .

In the period after the end of the Second World War , the rapid development and spread of trolleybuses in public transport in Soviet cities occurred. The only Soviet manufacturer of trolleybuses at that time was the military plant No. 82 in the then Moscow suburb of Tushino . In 1950, this company gave up civil engineering and returned to manufacturing military aircraft.

After a decision by the Soviet leadership, the Urizki-Waggonbaufabrik was now to produce trolleybuses in large numbers. In 1951, the company in Engels, now called Urizki-Werk , built its first MTB-82 trolleybus . From the 1960s until the collapse of the Soviet Union , the SiU was the world's largest manufacturer of trolleybuses. The production volume increased to over 60,000 trolleybuses. He exported his products, especially the mass product SiU-9 , to Hungary , Yugoslavia , Bulgaria , Mongolia , Argentina , Colombia and Greece . In 1996, the former state-owned company was converted into a stock corporation and has had its current name ever since. The scope of production was greatly reduced in this context, but the company remained the largest manufacturer of trolleybuses in Russia and exported to various successor states of the Soviet Union and to Ethiopia .

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