Kharkov Tractor Factory
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| State-owned company | |
| Industry | Arms industry, machines |
| Founded | 1945 (initially in 1895) |
| Headquarters | Kharkiv, Ukraine |
| Products | Tanks, locomotives, ship parts |
| Owner | State of Ukraine |
| Parent | Ukroboronprom |
| Website | malyshevplant |
The Malyshev Factory (Ukrainian: Zavod imeni V.O. Malysheva, Завод імені В.О. Малишева), formerly the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory (KhPZ), is a state-owned manufacturer of heavy equipment in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was named after the Soviet politician Vyacheslav Malyshev. The factory is part of the State Concern UkrOboronProm (Ukrainian Defense Industry).
It produces diesel engines, farm machinery, coal mining, sugar refining, and wind farm equipment, but is best known for its production of Soviet tanks, including the BT tank series of fast tanks, the famous T-34 of the Second World War, the Cold War T-64 and T-80, and their modern Ukrainian successor, the T-84. The factory is closely associated with the Morozov Design Bureau (KMDB), designer of military armoured fighting vehicles and the Kharkiv Engine Design Bureau (KEDB) for engines. During 1958 it constructed "Kharkovchanka", an off-road vehicle which reached the South Pole the following year.
At its height during the Soviet era, the factory employed 60,000 of Kharkiv's 1.5 million inhabitants. Early 2015 5,000 people worked at the factory.
The factory was renamed several times. English-language sources variously refer to it as factory, plant, or works, from the Russian, and now Ukrainian translation of the word zavod (works).
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