Uralvagonzavod Information

UralVagonZavod (Russian: ОАО «Научно-производственная корпорация «УралВагонЗавод», lit. Open Joint Stock Company “Research and Production Corporation “Uralvagonzavod”) is a Russian machine building company located in Nizhny Tagil, Russia.

It is one of the largest scientific and industrial complexes in Russia and the largest main battle tank manufacturer in the world.

The name Уралвагонзавод means Ural Railroad Car Factory.

The plant was built during 1931-1936 (mostly during the second five-year plan), launched on October 11, 1936, and named after Felix Dzerzhinsky. Initially it manufactured freight cars.

After the German invasion of 1941, Stalin ordered hundreds of factories in Ukraine and western Russia to be evacuated east. The KhPZ Factory No. 183 in Kharkiv was moved to Nizhny Tagil by rail, and merged with the Dzerzhinsky Works, to form the Stalin Ural Tank Factory No. 183. During the second world war it became the largest producer of tanks in the world, including the T-34. After the war, tank production was scaled down, and part of the Vagonkas manufacturing and design assets were transferred back to Kharkivs Diesel Factory No. 75 during 1945–51.

After the war it was expanded to produce machinery of other destinations: agricultural, construction, aviation, and space, including design and production of the Vostok, Voskhod, Proton and Energia expendable rockets.

It is the location of the Kartsev-Venediktov Design Bureau (OKB-520) where the T-54A and T-55 (development of Morozovs T-54), T-62, T-72, and T-90 tanks have been designed, and was working on one possibility for a next generation main battle tank, rumored to be called the T-95, until this project was cancelled in May 2010. It also manufactures Russias newest Main Battle Tank, the T-14 Armata.

Its gradual privatization was planned, beginning in 2006.As of December 27, 2016, UVZ has been transferred to Rostec, following a presidential decree.

The companys main products include railway cars, tanks, road-building vehicles, agricultural vehicles, metallurgical products, tools and consumer goods.

Production of T-90 main battle tanks accounts for 18–20% of the companys overall production. In 2008, Uralvagozavod produced about 175 tanks: 62 T-90A for the Russian Ministry of Defence, 60 T-90S for India . This represents the highest level of tank production at UralVagonZavod and in Russia as a whole since 1993. Moreover, according to Moscow Defense Brief, it would appear that in 2008 the number of tanks produced by the company was greater than the number of main battle tanks produced in all the other countries of the world taken together.

Railway cars and other civilian production amounted to 2/3 of the companys overall output in 2008.

In 2011, the companys revenue was $3 billion, and net profit was $0.33 billion.

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On July 16, 2014, the Obama administration imposed sanctions through the US Department of Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) by adding Uralvagonzavod and other entities to the Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN) in retaliation for the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by the Kremlin, and the Russian interference in Ukraine.

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