Talk:Krasnoye Sormovo Factory No. 112

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Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 11:52, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Sormovo Works
This article is based to sources which pays too much attention to the Sormovo built military products. From 1898 on the main production of Sormovo Works were steam locomotives. They built of course also the river paddle steamers for Volga service and in lesser scale other industrial products. Even the old list of factory´s products are preserved in magazines also found outside Russia today. Sormovo Work advertised in many industrial magazines, the last ones in 1916. It had close connections with Krauss Lokomotive Werke in Munich, Germany up to 1914. Krauss sold first 1524 mm gauge steam locomotive to Eisenwerke Sormovo in 1884. Named W.Schlüter Krauss factory type 60 an 0-4-0T (Bt-n2) under its works number 1178 / 1884. The second locomotive followed in 1885, an 900 mm gauge 0-4-0T (Bt-n2) to Sormovo´s internal industrial railway with Krauss works number 1668 / 1885. Sormovo Works built even its own public service railway from Moscow - Nizhnij Novgorod Railway´s Nizhnij Novgorod station to its factory. (The other one being the private Moscow - Kazan Railway´s railway station on the south side of Oka River, on the place where today´s tramway line running on Prospekt Gagarina terminates.) Before the October Revolution in 1917 there were not a single bridge over Oka and Volga. During summer time there was annually built pontone bridge on Oka, but the main personal traffic over the river connecting the upper part and lower part of the town, was carried by two elevators working with water power. The Kremlyovski (Ivanovskij; height 63 metres, track 173 metres) and Pokhovalinskij (height 45 metres, track 143 metres). Both built by Chemnitz Gustav Hartmann Werke in 1896 - 1897.

In period 1898 - 1917 Sormovo Works built 2164 steam locomotives. During period 1918 - 1935 the number of built steam locomotives was 1111 standard Russian 1524 mm gauge steam locomotives. Then followed the two year period when Sormovo built 200 750 mm gauge 0-8-0 (D-h2) Kolomna Works factory type 157 steam locomotives, before the production was turned to submarine diesel motors. After the Great Patriotic War the steam locomotive production started again, this time on the production line was the IVth and last version of standard Soviet passenger type Su 2-6-2 (1C1-h2) steam locomotives. The total production number was 411 steam locomotives built in 1947 - 1951. The total steam locomotive production in 1898 - 1951 was 3886 steam locomotives. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.114.194.227 (talk) 17:48, 17 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The only significant fact about this place is the 1970 nuclear incident, involving the K-320 nuclear submarine.
 * It was a precursor to Chernoble, and the team responsible were awarded medals, despite killing at least 200 people. 80.41.135.42 (talk) 16:55, 31 August 2023 (UTC)