Kolomna Locomotive Works
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Native name
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ОАО «Коломенский завод» |
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| Traded as | None |
| Industry | Transport machine engineering |
| Founded | 1863 |
| Founder | Amand Struve |
| Headquarters | Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, Russia |
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Key people
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Vladimir Karpov, general director |
| Products | Diesel locomotives, electric locomotives, diesel engines, electric motors |
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Number of employees
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6 426 |
| Parent | Transmashholding |
| Website | www |
The Kolomna Locomotive Works (Kolomensky Zavod) is a major producer of railroad locomotives in Russia. The plant started production in 1869 with a freight steam locomotive, one of the first in Russia. In the Czarist period before the Russian Revolution, Kolomna was one of a very few producers in Russia. During this period 139 types of steam locomotives were designed. The company is now (2015) a part of Transmashholding.
The main activities of the company are: design, manufacturing and service of diesel engines (medium-speed diesel engines and diesel generators for diesel locomotives, power plants, heavy trucks, ships), mainline locomotives (passenger and freight), DC passenger electric locomotives.
The Kolomna plant is the only Russian producer of passenger locomotives, the creator of the first domestic examples of the main high-speed passenger EP200 AC locomotives, passenger DC electric EP2K, freight locomotives 2TE70. TEP70 passenger locomotives (along with modifications and TEP70 TEP70BS) provide much of the passenger traffic on non-electrified sections of the railways of Russia and CIS countries. The Kolomna plant is the largest Russian supplier of medium speed engines with an output from 450-5000 kW
The factory was founded in 1863 at Kolomna by military engineer Amand Struve under the name "Mechanical Engineering and Foundry Plant Struve brothers". It was the first production plant for steel bridge structures for railways. In the second half of the 19th century the plant began to build locomotives, cars, river boats and traction engines. In 1866 his brother Gustav joined the management and the company name was changed to "Plant engineers Struve brothers". In 1871 the company name was changed to Kolomna Machine-Building Plant. In 1935 the plant was named Valerian Kuybyshev.
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