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70th
anniversary of JSC "GAZ"
The construction of the GAZ Automotive Works was completed
70 years ago. The opening ceremony was held on November
2, 1931, and the facility was put into operation on January
I the next year.
The company has been a national automotive leader since
its start. It has commissioned more than 16 million motor
vehicles of various types, such as M, Pobeda, Chaika and
Volga cars, A-series trucks and other models.
It was GAZ that produced the USSR's first
passenger car, the M-l limousine. This happened 65
years ago. GAZ manufactured two experimental M-l
cars in 1936 and launched the mass production of those popular
"Ernka" vehicles in the fourth quarter of 1937.
GAZ manufactured the first Volga passenger
car in 1956 45
years ago. Today GAZ is demonstrating good stamina in the
new economic conditions. The company is among Russia's few
large businesses that boost rather than decrease production
and make profit.
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Passenger car,
the M-l limousine, 1936-1942
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Volga passenger
car, 1956-1970
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At the moment, the GAZ Automotive Works is the sole producer
in Russia that specializes in middle-class car manufacturing.
It is also unique in its unrivaled product line, including
low- and medium-tonnage trucks, passenger cars, minivans
and specialized vehicles.
The company's annual capacity is more than 200,000 motor
vehicles. However, GAZ does not restrict its activity to
automotive production alone, but also makes machine tools
and special-purpose equipment, dies and molds, automotive
components, cast iron, ferrous metal and steel blanks, industrial
and civil engineering, electricity and heat generation,
consumer goods production and transactions in the stock
and financial markets.
see also: http://www.gaz.ru/
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45
years ago the first russian high-speed hydrofoil
steamer, Raketa, was commissioned
The shipyard has been in business for a century and a
half. It has commissioned hundreds of ships and minor vessels
over the period, ranging in complexity from river barges
to state-of-the-art submarines. In wartime, the company
would provide troops with tanks and subs, while in peacetime
it has been constructing bridges, railroad locomotives and
cars, mechanical engineering and metallurgical items, and
high-quality electrodes for shipbuilding.
 45
years ago, in 1956, the shipyard commissioned Russia's first
high-speed hydrofoil steamer, Raketa, designed by R. Alexeyev.
(One of Nizhny Novgorod's leading design bureaus bears his
name today.) The ship's maiden voyage on the route between
Gorky and Kazan took place on August 25, 1957.
The Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard enjoys a respectable ranking
in both domestic and international shipbuilding markets.
Its major brands are tankers, dry-cargo vessels, freight
barges and special-purpose ships. It also engages in mechanical
engineering. The company has well-developed main facilities
and auxiliary production shops. Structurally, the business
incorporates a technical center with the design and know-how
bureaus, a ship hull shop, a ship assembly shop, a ship
pipeline shop, a mechanical engineering facility, a ship
furniture and cabin finishing component shop, a metallurgical
facility and a consumer goods shop.
The company reveals huge potential, which ensures its
stable progress. It has decades of experience in fleet construction
and possesses powerful engineering capabilities. This allows
the company to build vessels of all types and purposes,
repair old ones and master the production of new items of
any complexity.
see also: http://www.zks.r52.ru/
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85th
jubilee of File and Mechanical Tool Plant
The company is celebrating its 85th anniversary
in 2001. The Otto Erbe Joint Stock Company (File and Mechanical
Tool Plant) was evacuated to Nizhny Novgorod in 1915. It
resumed operation in 1916. The factory got started as a
small company producing saws and blades for agricultural
tools and developed into a leading cutting tool manufacturer
for woodworking and metalworking. The business specializes
in the production of high-quality special-purpose steel
grades.
see also: http://www.zefs.nnov.ru/
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85th
jubilee of the Riga-based Etna Plant
The Riga-based Etna Plant, Latvia, was evacuated to Nizhny
Novgorod at the end of 1915. The company was virtually reborn
the next year when it launched the production of wire, nails,
chains and other items. The facility was renamed on November
7, 1922 into the Krasnaya Etna Plant. The redirection of
the company's core competence was linked to the construction
of an automotive industry in Nizhny Novgorod. Krasnaya Etna
began manufacturing bolts and other fasteners, which had
been preceded by large-scale changes in the company's production
infrastructure and its labor force. Full-fledged modernization
involved a lot of leading designers, technologists, builders
and installers. The launch of an automotive normal production
line was the focus of all efforts. The factory went on to
fully take on the mission of supplying the automobile plant
with fasteners. Today Etna is the region's only business
to specialize in this area.
see also: http://www.etna.r52.ru/
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By
the materials of book "Anniversary Nizhny"
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