Nizhny Novgorod encyclopedia. Plant "Krasnoye Sormovo" PAO Krasnoye Sormovo military representatives

OJSC Krasnoye Sormovo Plant is the oldest Russian shipbuilding enterprise (part of the MNP Group of Companies), founded in 1849. Many technical innovations and industrial achievements in Russia are inextricably linked with the history of the plant: this is the first open-hearth furnace, which glorified Sormovo metal as the best in the country ; the world's first diesel-electric ship "Vandal", built in 1903; the world's first steam engines on ships with valve distribution of steam across the cylinders in 1913; the first domestic tank (1920); serial production of T-34 tanks (13,887 tanks were produced ); the first submarine "Komsomolets" (1930); the country's first industrial installation for continuous casting of steel (1955); the world's largest river hydrofoil ship "Sputnik" and sea hydrofoil ship "Vikhr"; the country's first sea railway ferry (1963); the world's first double-hull offshore crane vessel (1966) and much more. For the first time in the world in 1927, Sormovo designers, when designing oil carriers for the Caspian Sea, deviated from Lloyd's rules and made calculations using a longitudinal frame system, reducing the weight of the hull at that same strength.

Sormovichi built 300 submarines and deep-sea rescue vehicles, more than 200 were modernized and repaired. Among them are the world's first nuclear submarine with underwater launch cruise missiles, the world's first deep-sea rescue vehicle made of a titanium body, etc. The Americans called the Varshavyanka submarine a “black hole” for its low noise and stealth; The nuclear submarine "Condor" is recognized as the best boat of the twentieth century, and the "Barracuda" in a super-strong titanium hull is unlikely to be repeated by any manufacturer in the coming decades.

Krasnoye Sormovo is the only plant that produces torpedo tubes and lifting-mast devices for all types of submarines built in Russia. In 2008, the deep-sea rescue vehicle AS-28 "Priz" was returned to service by the Russian Navy, having undergone modernization after an accident in August 2005 in the waters of Berezovaya Bay.

A series of tankers have been designed and built for the Caspian Sea (projects 19612A, 19614, 19619). Project 19619 tankers are the largest in the Caspian Sea. The English Royal Society of Naval Engineers included the lead tanker "President Heydar Aliyev" in the list of "Significant Vessels of 2004", and the tanker "Zengezur" in the list of 2008. In 2006, the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping certified the lead bulk carrier of the RSD17 project Mirzaga Khalilov for compliance with the ECO standard; the bulk carrier became the first Russian-built vessel to receive the ECO symbol.

The geography of cooperation with the countries of the Caspian region continues to expand. Since 2009, Krasnoe Sormovo has been building tankers for shipping companies in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. The seven-thousander tanker "Jeyhun" for "Turkmendenizderyayollary" was included by the English Royal Society of Naval Engineers in the list of significant ships of 2010.

Krasnoe Sormovo is the first plant in Russia to create a closed complex - from metal supply, cleaning, priming to assembly and welding. All production facilities have been modernized, hull production is at the level of the world's leading shipyards. Currently, the plant has reached a record pace of construction - a completed vessel hull is completed every 30 days.

, hydrofoils, tugs, tankers, steam locomotives, tanks

"Krasnoe Sormovo"- a shipbuilding enterprise in the Sormovsky district of Nizhny Novgorod, one of the oldest enterprises in this industry. Founded in 1849 by the company “Nizhny Novgorod Machine Factory and Volga-Kama Towing and Import Shipping Company” as a diversified enterprise for fulfilling important government orders. On June 18, 1918, by decree of the All-Russian Council of the National Economy, it was declared public property. It received the name “Krasnoye Sormovo” on November 17, 1922 by resolution of the Presidium of the Nizhny Novgorod Provincial Executive Committee. Since 1994 it has been an open joint-stock company, full name - JSC "Plant "Krasnoe Sormovo"".In 2015, the plant changed its status from OJSC to Public Joint Joint Company.

The Krasnoye Sormovo plant is one of the largest shipbuilding enterprises in Russia. It produces river vessels and river-sea vessels, equipment for drilling rigs, pontoons, and agricultural machines. As of 2006, the structure of the plant includes four main production facilities, five auxiliary production facilities and an engineering center.

Main productions:

• Casing and mounting: ensure the production of the main products of the enterprise
• Mechanical and metallurgical: ensure the production of by-products, in particular agricultural machinery, spare parts for large mechanical engineering and energy enterprises, shipbuilding equipment

Auxiliary production (mechanical repair, repair and construction, electrical repair, gas, transport production) support the activities of the enterprise.

The engineering center develops new ships and other product samples.

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Owners and management

• Executive Director of MNP Group Sergey Votintsev,
• General Director of the Krasnoye Sormovo plant Nikolay Zharkov,
• Director of Shipbuilding at MNP Group Andrey Ivanov,
• Deputy Head of the Shipbuilding Department of Rosprom Vladimir Kostyukov,
• General Director of MNP Group Vadim Malov,
• President of the holding company "Industrial Investments" Sergey Nikolaev,
• Head of the Department of the Federal Property Management Agency for the Nizhny Novgorod Region Semyon Tarasov.

History of the enterprise

Origin of the plant

On May 28, 1870, Benardaki died, according to the will, the tycoon’s fortune passes to Greece, the Sormovo plant becomes the property of his sons.
On February 4, 1872, on the initiative of court councilor Ivan Petrovich Balashov, a joint stock company was organized "Sormovo", the founders of which were: Balashov himself, the heirs of Benardaki and Prince Beloselsky-Belozersky. The joint-stock company included the Sormovo and Avzyano-Petrovsky iron-making plants (Orenburg province), the capital amounted to 2.55 million rubles. Sormovo, from shipbuilding, begins to switch to railway products; a record profit was received in a year - 1.33 million rubles. (increase by 2.3 times).

By 1873, the plant had 11 departments for machine-building, shipbuilding, steel, iron-rolling and railway profiles. Sormovo became the largest industrial enterprise in Russia, however, the industrial crisis of 1873-1875. dealt him a severe blow. JSC Sormovo burst, debts amounted to 12 million rubles, the shipping company is being sold, the plant is on the verge of closure, production declines 6 times, the number of workers decreases 7 times, shipbuilding in Sormovo ceases until 1885.

Railway transport

Improved modifications of the Mikhailovsky steam locomotive (type 1-3-1) are being produced.

1925-1927 “SUT” (Sormovo reinforced heavy). 1934-1935 “Su” (Sormovsky improved). 1936 135 narrow gauge steam locomotives were produced.

Steam locomotive building ended after the Second World War with the release of a small series of machines.
In total, 3,468 locomotives were produced at Krasny Sormovo.
The plant also built armored trains, platforms for mounting anti-aircraft and field artillery guns, tank-steam locomotives (tenderless) of normal and narrow gauge, condenser tenders with very complex mechanical equipment, locomotive (self-propelled) cars (about 62,000 freight cars and 2,500 passenger cars were produced).

Tank building

After the war, the pace of submarine fleet construction increased sharply.

A total of 275 combat submarines were built, including 26 nuclear submarines.

The famous designer of high-speed ships and ekranoplanes, Rostislav Evgenievich Alekseev, began his activities at the plant.

In 1941, he was hired as a control foreman for the production of T-34 tanks. At the beginning of 1943, a hydrolaboratory was organized under his leadership. From 1951 to 1951, the hydraulic laboratory successfully worked on the problems of hydrofoil torpedo boats (Alekseev and his closest assistants were awarded the state Stalin Prize). In 1952, on the basis of the Hydrolaboratory design bureau, pilot production, research laboratories and an experimental base at the Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard, the Central Design Bureau for Hydrofoil Ships was created (now JSC TsKB po SPK im. R. E. Alekseev "). In August 1957, the first passenger hydrofoil ship, Raketa-1, was launched. Later, high-speed SPKs were built - “Chaika”, “Meteor”, “Burevestnik” and others. The leading position in the field of hydrofoil development (at that time) brought world fame and recognition to the plant.

In 2004-2009, 7 tankers of the 19619 series were built at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant, ordered

The authorities of the Nizhny Novgorod region and the shipyard management will provide financial assistance to the families of the dead and injured.

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July 2019

July 24 it became known about the opening of an exhibition at the shipyard history museum "Dmitry Benardaki - founder of the Sormovo plant" and new editions of the museum.

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July 18 in honor of the 170th anniversary of the plant and the 220th anniversary of the birth of its founder D.E. The Benardakis installed the figure of the legendary Russian industrialist in the center of Sormovo.

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July 2-3 The company hosted a presentation on the implementation of production system tools as part of the Second Federal Forum "Productivity 360". 14 Russian governors arrived. During the year of participation in the optimization project, the ship's production cycle was reduced from 9 months to 8 months. Also this year, Sormovichy reached the figure of 10 ships per year, while last year this figure was 8.

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June 28 The multi-purpose dry cargo vessel of Project RSD59 "Idel 3" was transferred to the Pola Rise company. The cargo ship successfully passed all stages of testing.

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June 2019

21st of June The launch of the dry cargo ship "Andrey Zuev" of project RSD59 took place. This is the ninth ship in the Pola Makaria series, built by the plant for the Idel company. The design of the dry cargo ship was prepared by the Marine Engineering Bureau.

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April 2019

5th of March The second vessel out of four of the RSD59 project, the bulk carrier IDEL 2, was launched at the Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard. "IDEL 2" is already the seventh dry cargo vessel of the RSD59 project, which was built by the Krasnoye Sormovo Plant in two years.

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8 August The team of the Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard handed over to the customer, the Pola Rise company, the bulk carrier Pola Sofia of project RSD59. The project was developed by Marine Engineering Bureau - Design St. Petersburg.

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5'th of July The press service of the Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard reported that the enterprise handed over to the customer the bulk carrier Pola Filofeya of project RSD59. This is already the second multi-purpose vessel built at the plant.

Now the shipyard is preparing to launch the third bulk carrier in a series of 5 vessels of this project.

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May 2018

May 24 An event took place at the Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard - the bulk carrier "Pola Makaria" of project RSD59 was handed over to the customer. The designer of the ship was the Marine Engineering Bureau.

Now the ship will work for the Pola Rise company.

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Shavin K. S.
1977

At the end of 1929, after graduating from a 7-year school, I was accepted as a turner apprentice at the factory apprenticeship school (FZU) named after Komsomol at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant. I was accepted due to the fact that there was an additional intake: it was very difficult to get into the FZU school and in general to get a job; there was unemployment in Sormovo and in the country. I applied for a job at the labor exchange, which was located in a newly built building. Now this building houses the Sormovskaya post office. Previously, the labor exchange was in a two-story wooden house on Stantsionnaya Street, near the Sormovo railway station.

The FZU school was located in the building where the woodworking shop (DTS) is now located, in one flight to the factory park. There was exemplary order in the school. The working day began with gymnastics, which was carried out in the corridor - there was no special room. There were also classrooms for theoretical studies and three workshops: metalworking, carpentry and turning. The latter was equipped with machine equipment with a common transmission. The FZU did not provide uniforms or food. The salary was 25 rubles. per month. The masters distributed them twice a month in envelopes. All students signed up for the loan. Practical classes were conducted in the school’s workshops, as well as in the plant’s workshops: carriage (shop SM-3, now SM-5) and tool shop. The latter was then located together with the reinforcement shop in a three-story stone building. Now it houses the workshops of GPTU-5 and the technical department of the plant. Machine tools and common transmissions were installed on all three floors. Industrial training was conducted by experienced craftsmen: V. Kondrashov, V. I. Buzychkin, I. A. Samoilov and others.

Compared to the present time, the plant was small and was located mainly from the main office to the factory park. The workshop buildings were old, many workshops were located in wooden and infill buildings, there were no sidewalks or asphalt roads, some of the roads were cobblestones.

The main office of the Sormovo plant.

For the transportation of goods, railway transport was used, as well as narrow-gauge railway tracks laid throughout the plant and in all workshops. There were horse-drawn vehicles and a factory horse park; there were no cars at the factory.

There were practically no dressing rooms or canteens at the plant; most of the workers wore what they came to the plant to work in; they brought lunch with them, wrapped in a red handkerchief; Few newspapers were subscribed to or purchased, many workers were illiterate or completely illiterate; it was difficult to find manufactured goods and food; It was often possible to see workers wearing bast shoes, especially those newly arrived from the villages.

In Sormovo and surrounding villages, factory workers lived in private small wooden houses. Factory buildings were only in the factory park and near the monument to V.I. Lenin, where 48-apartment buildings were built. There were no sidewalks or asphalt roads. The main road was cobblestone, with wooden bridges here and there.

Sormovo. Shosseynaya street. Crossroads with Aleksandrovskaya and Novokanavinskaya streets.

Transport was bad: there was a Finnish ship (a small steamer) along the Volga to the city, there were railways to Kanavin and Bolshoi Kozino, and then to Balakhna, trains ran rarely; there was no tram and trolleybus transport, a small foreign bus rarely ran from Sormovo to Kanavin, there were no permanent bridges across the Volga and Oka, there were ferry crossings across the Volga, including railway cars, there was a pontoon across the Oka - a floating bridge made of barges, during ice drift that was breaking up.

Many villages did not have electric lighting; there were kerosene lamps, including in clubs, schools, and libraries; there were no radios, telephones, radios, televisions, running water, sewerage; Bicycles and motorcycles were rare.

Sormovo. Uzkozavodskaya Street (now Svoboda Street). Balakhninsky district, Nizhny Novgorod province, XIX century.

By this time, the Palace of Culture was built in Sormovo, and clubs (backdoor houses) were built in the villages. A lot of work was done in the palace, clubs, schools, and libraries; The people had a lot of initiative and energy: amateur groups worked, held evenings, staged plays, concerts, the popularity of which was great, the audience could not fit into the premises; silent films were shown accompanied by a piano; Football teams were organized everywhere, they made football fields and balls themselves; played gorodki, lapta, etc.; Many cleanup days were organized, and literacy clubs worked.

At this time, construction began on a branch of the Krasnoye Sormovo plant, which was soon transformed into machine-building plant No. 92, as well as the construction of an automobile plant, an aircraft plant, and a machine tool plant, for the construction of which subbotniks were organized, especially often at the automobile plant. The Krasnoye Sormovo plant was the source of personnel for these factories and many other factories in the country.

At this time, housing construction began in the villages: Kooperativny, Kalininsky, Volodarsky, Komsomolsky, houses were mainly built wooden and infill with stove heating, without amenities; many private houses were built.

During the same period, the collectivization of agriculture was carried out; factory workers and residents of villages also organized collective farms for growing vegetables, for example, in Koposovo there was a collective farm “Our answer to pests and invaders.” Housewives and factory workers worked on collective farms.

I graduated from the FZU school in 1932, already in a new specially built building, with all the amenities and services. Currently, it houses the plant management of the Gorky Machine-Building Plant. We organized many cleanup days for the construction of the school. After graduating from college, I worked as a turner. Soon I was awarded the title of drummer, and was given a drummer's book. It noted monthly that this title was confirmed. According to the drummer’s book, sometimes the store gave out goods, including I received 500 grams of candy, 50 grams of tea, 1 kg of flour. etc. At this time, the country had a rationing supply system, which was abolished on January 1, 1935. The stores were cooperative; workers contributed money to the cooperative.

At this time there was a five-day work week. A lot of work was done at the plant to improve the skills of workers; many studied and passed the technical minimum in their profession. Those who mastered the technique well were given “ZOT” badges (for mastering the technique). I also took the Technical Minimum and received the “ZOT” badge; in addition, I also studied at a correspondence technical school and worked on a collective farm.

Due to the increase in the qualifications of workers, the receipt of new foreign equipment, and the introduction of rationalization proposals, labor productivity systematically increased. At this time, annual revisions of production standards were carried out.

There were many old regular workers working at the plant who had their own habits and their own attitude to work. They knew the secrets of their work and some workers did not pass on these secrets to others. The work was piecework, the workers could have done more, but they handed over as many orders as he was supposed to earn. Thus, the growth of labor productivity was restrained. There were violations of discipline and absenteeism at the plant. In carrying out the plan, for various reasons, there were sometimes breakthroughs, which then had to be made up - at that time it was called storming.

Communists, trade union and Komsomol organizations carried out a lot of mass political work with workers to explain the party's policy on the importance of industrialization of the country, collectivization of agriculture, and the importance of fulfilling five-year plans. Socialist competition developed, the display of work results improved: those who worked well were shown flying on an airplane, and those lagging behind were shown on a turtle, and sometimes with a matting banner. Explanatory work carried out by public organizations among workers has yielded positive results. Many workers, having thoroughly studied the capabilities of the equipment, began to significantly exceed the standards, and their labor enthusiasm grew.

At the plant, the first Stakhanovites were foreman Kalmykov A.P. from the rolling shop, turner V.F. Kirillov from the diesel shop and many others, who began to exceed the standards by 1.5 - 2 times or more.

At that time, the plant built steam locomotives, carriages, trams, platforms, dump cars, ships, manufactured equipment for the oil industry, diesel engines, ammunition, tubes were sent to the Moscow metro, etc.

In 1937, the plant sent a flotilla of first-class passenger ships for the Volga-Moscow canal.

At this time, the plant was being reconstructed; in 1934, private houses in Arsenyakovka were demolished and workshop buildings were built: forging and pressing, novo-open-hearth, novo-shaped foundry, new boiler house, etc.

In the III Five-Year Plan, the main direction was to expand shipbuilding, but this five-year plan was not destined to be completed.

Fascists and imperialists fanned the flames of war. There was war on our borders too. In 1938, Japanese militarists violated our border at Lake Khasan, then the Finnish War, and on June 22, 1941, the Great Patriotic War began against Hitler's fascists.

During the years of the pre-war five-year plans, the Krasnoye Sormovo plant was transformed: production output was increased several times, new workshops were built, old ones were reconstructed, the plant received a lot of new foreign and domestic equipment; A lot of work has been done to improve the plant; dressing rooms, showers have been built, and canteens have been opened. In Sormovo and adjacent villages, many residential buildings were built, including the Stakhanovite house, the house of engineers, a hotel, houses in the Engels quarter, etc.

New schools, clinics, and a park were built.

Opening of the Sormovo Park of Culture and Recreation. Gorky, 1940. Photo by P.V. Mozzhukhin.

Transport work was improved: a tram connected the center of Sormovo with Kanavin and the city, the number of bus routes increased; Bridges were built across the Oka and Volga.

Much work was carried out to improve Sormovo, including the streets of Comintern and Svoboda; in Sormovo, water supply and sewerage were installed, electricity appeared in all houses, many had radios, radio receivers, sound cinema appeared; unemployment was eliminated. A lot has been done to improve the lives of the people. At this time, the saying “life has become better, life has become more fun” appeared.

The elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, republics and local councils under the new Constitution were a real national holiday. The polling stations were very well and beautifully decorated, they had children's rooms, rest rooms, etc. Sormovichi unanimously cast their votes for candidates for deputies of the bloc of communists and non-partisans.

Since 1937 I have worked in the production of ammunition, this year work began to increase the capacity for the production of ammunition. Workshops (No. 7 and “G”) for the production of 107 mm projectile casings were built and reconstructed, in addition to the existing workshop No. 2, and workshop No. 17 for the production of 203 mm projectile casings was also reconstructed, in addition to the existing workshop No. 5; Soon workshops No. 2, No. 7, “G” were merged into workshop No. 18.

On the eve of the Finnish war and during it, the teams of workshops No. 17, No. 18 worked very hard and produced a large number of shells for the front.

In 1939, the anniversary was celebrated - the 90th anniversary of the Krasnoe Sormovo plant and many workers were rewarded for their exemplary and long-term work: valuable gifts, cash bonuses, anniversary certificates, and were awarded orders and medals.

In June 1940, the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR was issued “On the transition to an 8-hour working day, to a 7-day working week and on the prohibition of unauthorized departure of workers and employees from enterprises and institutions.” With the release of this Decree, labor and production discipline began to improve dramatically. Malicious violators were brought to criminal liability, at that time the designations were in use: 4-15, 5-25, 6-20, etc., the first digit indicates the number of months, and the second digit is the percentage of deductions from wages.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the plant began to restructure itself to produce tanks and increase the production of ammunition. It was a difficult time, the plant was being rebuilt, and the war was approaching, the Nazi invaders were rushing to Moscow. It is impossible to describe the state of managers and workers; it must be experienced. Many worked for two, three or 5 days without leaving the factory until the task was completed; they devoted all their strength, knowledge, and experience to production; often they did the seemingly impossible. There were many difficulties, the production was new for the Sormovichi people, it was necessary to carry out a large amount of construction work, there were not enough materials; Most of the workshops were reconstructed, new workshops were organized, hundreds of pieces of equipment were modernized and rebuilt, new equipment was manufactured, as well as equipment and tools. Development was difficult, but despite all the difficulties, the Sormovichi people began producing tanks in a short time and after a few months.

Since the treacherous attack of Hitler's fascists on our Motherland, many working people have volunteered to go to the front.

The workshops organized full-fledged round-the-clock work in 2 shifts of 11 hours each. The first shift began at 8-00 in the morning and ended at 20-00, with a lunch break of 1 hour. The second shift worked all night from 20-00 to 8 am. There were no days off, on Sunday there was a break in shifts and they worked 18 hours. There weren't enough workers. Housewives under 55 and young people over 16 were mobilized to the plant. Those new to the plant had no professions, were not familiar with the work, they needed to be trained quickly. It was difficult, but there was no other choice. After a few days of practical training, without theory, the new workers worked independently. There were many breakdowns, there were defects, there were many tears, but military equipment was made. Since the beginning of the war, a rationing system was introduced to provide workers with essential products, mainly bread; workers were given 800 grams of bread per day, dependents - 250 grams, and the bread was not the same as what we eat now, but it also contained potatoes and other impurities.

Only workers who received coupons for completing production tasks, the so-called “UDP” (enhanced supplementary nutrition) and Stakhanov’s, could eat in the factory canteens, the latter were the best “UDP”, but in general the lunches were of low quality due to the lack of food.

The plant and all residential buildings in the area and the city were blackout, and the streets were dark at night. In winter, due to interruptions in the supply of coal, the workshops were cold, the emulsion often froze in the machines, and there were interruptions in the supply of electricity. It was also not always warm or light in the apartments. Due to lack of food, since the spring of 1942, after 12 hours of intense work in the plant, most of the workers went to the areas allocated for planting potatoes and dug virgin soil with shovels. The plots were on Penkov Island, beyond the Volga, near the Koposovskaya oak grove and wherever it was possible to plant potatoes, including on the square near the Palace of Culture.

Fascist planes flew over the city and often bombed Sormovo, the plant, including bombs dropped near the model workshop, on Comintern Street in the area of ​​​​the railway bridge, they also bombed Gorky and especially often the automobile plant. Over the city at night there was a glow of fires and lighting balloons hung from parachutes.

Due to systematic malnutrition, many workers suffered from dystrophy, and there were cases of death right in the plant. Many families received funerals about the death of relatives at the front. Evacuees from Kharkov, Nikolaev, and Stalingrad arrived at the plant. Our plant was also preparing for evacuation.

The moral and physical stress on the workers was unbearably heavy. And despite all the difficulties, hardships, the Sormovichi people, like the whole country, devoted all their strength, experience, knowledge to the cause of the fight against the hated Nazi fascism, to save their Motherland. They worked as long as required, worked under the slogan “Everything for the front, everything for victory.” Every worker at his workplace performed every hour, every day a labor feat, a heroic feat in the name of defeating the fascist invaders, in the name of saving his beloved Motherland. Technical design standards were met by 150–200% or more. The selfless work of the Sormovichi people, under the leadership of the party organization, to increase the production of tanks and ammunition, to improve production, and increase labor productivity, yielded great results: with a decrease in the number of workers, the production of military equipment systematically increased and soon the plant sent up to 300 or more T-34 tanks to month, workshop No. 18 produced up to 90 thousand or more shell casings monthly, workshop No. 17 shipped up to 25 thousand of the famous “Katyushas” per month.

“Everything for the front, everything for victory” in the name of this, the Sormovichi people only worked selflessly at their jobs, but hatred of the worst enemy, the desire to do as much as possible for the speedy defeat of the fascist invaders, was manifested in all the lives and actions of the Soviet people, ours was manifested Soviet, Russian patriotism: young men and women, elderly men and women volunteered to go to the front; many Sormovichi people signed up for the people's militia and after work studied military affairs. With the onset of cold weather, most of the workers gave their warm clothes to the soldiers to be sent to the front, and they themselves dressed in something. At this time, department stores were not open, and only at the end of the war, for completing tasks, very rarely could some receive a warrant to receive one thing. The Sormovichi people gave away their savings and loan bonds for the construction of military equipment, the last opportunities were sought and gifts were sent to the soldiers at the front.

When the Germans approached Moscow, in cold times, city residents and factory workers built defensive structures on the approaches to Gorky, for example, in the Chkalovsk area. Near the workshops in the plant and in the area, bomb shelters were dug in the ground, in which during air raids and raids of enemy aircraft it was necessary for all workers and the population to take refuge, but patriotism for the Motherland was above all dangers and all workers did not pay attention to air raids, bombings, anti-aircraft gunfire and continued to work at their jobs, making tanks and shells. Soldiers from newly formed units were housed in many private houses, apartments, clubs, and the Palace of Culture. Hospitals were established in many schools. There was no limit to the patriotism and labor feat of the Sormovichi people.

For selfless work, for exemplary performance of tasks during the Great Patriotic War, many workers at the plant repeatedly received thanks, bonuses, valuable gifts and were awarded orders and medals; the Krasnoye Sormovo plant was also awarded three times.

The plant's staff many times took first place in the All-Union Socialist Competition, was awarded the Challenge Red Banner of the State Defense Committee 33 times, and then was transferred to eternal storage.

When the surrender of Nazi Germany was announced, there was no end to the joy of the Sormovichi people, as well as the entire Soviet people, there was a rally near the tank assembly shop, now a mechanical repair shop, the plant was transferred to normal operation with one day off - Sunday.

In 1946 there was a severe drought, the year was very lean and the desire of the working people to get happiness - to eat real rye bread until they were full - had to be postponed and only in December 1947 a monetary reform was carried out and the rationing system was abolished, so for another 2 years the Soviet people experienced difficulties and deprivation.

In addition, external difficulties arose; world imperialism, and especially American imperialism, wanted to turn the defeat of Nazi Germany and Japanese militarism only to the benefit of world imperialism, to the detriment of the Soviet Union; The imperialists believed that Russia had been drained of blood by the war, many villages, towns, factories, collective farms, state farms had been destroyed, and that the USSR would not be able to restore the national economy on its own and would ask for help from the American and other imperialists, would make concessions, following the lead of the capitalist countries, but this did not happen; The Soviet people and other countries, which Soviet troops helped to free themselves from the oppression of the fascists and imperialists, quickly began to restore the destroyed economy on their own. The imperialists were not happy with this course of events, the so-called “Cold War” began, we were practically threatened with a new war, and soon the Korean War began. The threat of a new world war, but this time nuclear, hung over the world.

This created new additional difficulties for the Soviet people and the peoples liberated from the yoke of imperialism. Our party and government took the necessary measures. The pressure at work was great. As we now know, thanks to the correct and persistent actions of our party and government, the imperialists were forced to gradually weaken the Cold War policy and move to the policy of détente, which our country is persistently pursuing.

According to the IV five-year plan, the plant switched to the production of peaceful products, the production of steam locomotives, various ships, wheel centers, spare parts and gas generator units for tractors and other products, as well as for the defense of the country. The new production was organized at a higher technical level in design, technology, with a high degree of mechanization, for example, in shipbuilding, the construction of ships in large-section blocks was introduced. To switch to the production of civilian products, it was necessary to carry out a huge amount of work to rebuild the plant: workshop buildings, communications, railway transport were repaired and reconstructed, roads were put in order, new workshops were organized: many hundreds of equipment were rearranged, repaired and modernized, new equipment and equipment were manufactured , including large-sized ones, etc. The development of peaceful products was difficult, there was a lack of qualified personnel, necessary equipment, and equipment, but this was not the first time for Sormovichi to overcome difficulties and soon the production of steam locomotives, ships and other products began. Even after the end of the war, during the period of restoration of the national economy, the plant staff was in the forefront of the competition.

After the end of the war, extensive landscaping work was carried out at the plant, in Sormovo and the villages, building housing, schools, hospitals, and household premises in the plant. The road and sidewalks were covered with asphalt, the road along Svoboda Street to the Dubravnoye village, destroyed by tanks during the war, was rebuilt; The road was built by captured Germans. Extensive landscaping work was carried out in the plant, Sormovo and villages, shop buildings were put in order and painted. Particularly great work was carried out for the anniversary - the 100th anniversary of the plant (1949). A trolleybus service appeared, the number of bus routes increased, there were many radios, television appeared, and gasification began. The Sormovichi people, like the entire Soviet people, showed patriotism and enthusiasm in the restoration of the national economy and its further development. This was expressed not only in dedicated work at the plant, but in helping other cities and factories with people, various products, as well as in subscribing to loans that existed before 1956. Workers lent 2 weeks, 3 weeks, a month or more of their earnings to the state.

In the post-war period, the plant expanded, reconstructed, built new workshops, replenished with new equipment, equipment and built ships: dry cargo ships, barges, tankers, tugs, dredgers, dredgers, ferries, diesel-electric ships "Lenin" and "Soviet Union", submarine vessels wings and many other products, and also carried out orders for the defense of the country. For the first time in the country, an installation for continuous casting of steel was built.

The plant continues to grow, produce modern products, the Sormovichi people cannot do otherwise, they have always been and are searching for something new, better, more productive, their motto has been and will be “forward and only forward.”

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