The largest factories in Volgograd

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Volgograd is the largest industrial center of the Volga region, located at the intersection of important transport routes. The factories of Volgograd make an important contribution to the development of the region, this includes filling the budget, employment of citizens, social and infrastructure projects. The manufacturing sector is represented mainly by enterprises of mechanical engineering, metallurgy, chemical and instrument-making industries.

Volgograd aluminum plant, Volgograd

In its walls, primary aluminum is smelted and a number of products based on it are made. It began work on January 26, 1956, becoming the seventh largest specialized enterprise in the country during this time. The team for labor merits has repeatedly received awards and commemorative signs, the most honorable of which is the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Today it is a structural subdivision of the RUSAL group of companies.

Aluminum plant in Volgograd is producing:

• Primary aluminum in ingots, ingots and granules (up to 60,000 t/y).
• Powders, pastes and powders based on non-ferrous metal (up to 15000 t/g).
• Anode mass (up to 150,000 t/y).
• Alloys.

The main partners and consumers are companies in the electrical, automotive, packaging, construction and energy industries.

In recent years, due to high tariffs for electricity, the company is experiencing certain problems. Production is unprofitable, which is why the plant has repeatedly suspended work.

Red October

The Krasny Oktyabr plant in Volgograd is one of the largest and high-tech metallurgical enterprises in the region. Here, special grades of steel are smelted, which are so necessary for the automotive industry, armaments, the production of rockets and aviation equipment, for petrochemical enterprises, research institutes and laboratories. This is the only such enterprise in the south of Russia.

The plant in Volgograd began its career way back in 1897. The Tsaritsyno metallurgical plant (as it was originally called) had a convenient location on the Volga, and after its opening it was a significant competitor to the Ural iron-working manufactories. In 1910, up to 8.5 million poods of high-quality steel were smelted at the enterprise.

After the revolution, the plant was nationalized and in 1922 it was given the current name "Red October". In the 30s, the reconstruction and replacement of the obsoleteequipment. By the end of the decade, it was already one of the most technically equipped production facilities in the USSR. The company has partly retained the title of the flagship of metallurgy to the present day. Today, its shops produce about 900 grades of special steels, more than half a thousand types of rolled products. A third of the country's stainless steel grades are smelted here.

Factory "Barricades" (Volgograd)

The history of the Barricades software goes back to 1914. After the outbreak of the First World War, the army faced a shortage of ammunition and weapons. The government and the military department decided to create a number of new weapons enterprises, one of which was built in Tsaritsyn.

Throughout its history, the plant in Volgograd produced mainly military products. With the beginning of World War II, the company increased production. Especially the army needed artillery, partially lost during the retreat at the initial stage of the war. Up to 1000 guns were assembled here per month. But when the Germans were on the outskirts of Stalingrad, the main facilities were evacuated to Altai.

Today, on the basis of the plant, there is a research and production center of JSC "Titan-Barricades", whose tasks include the development of:

• Large caliber artillery weapons.
• Launchers (PU) for tactical missile systems.
• PU for strategic missile systems.

Volgograd Tractor

Once the legendary plant in Volgograd, which gained fame during the Soviet era, but did not survive the realityour days. In 1926, Stalingrad was chosen as a site for the construction of the first domestic large-scale tractor enterprise. Agriculture was in dire need of mechanized equipment, on June 17, 1930, the first 30-horsepower STZ-1 tractor left the factory assembly line. A year later, more than a hundred pieces of much-needed equipment were assembled in his workshops per day.

With the beginning of the war, the factory workers were able to arrange repairs, and later the manufacture of T-34 tanks, as well as engines for them. Production did not stop even under the bombing and shelling of the fascist army approaching Stalingrad. Only when the fighting spread directly to the territory of the plant, the work of the shops was suspended.

After the war, civilian production continued here. The basis was made by powerful caterpillar tractors of the DT series. Unfortunately, in the early 2000s, the Volgograd Tractor Plant faced intractable financial problems, and in 2007 the enterprise was abolished.

Krasnoarmeisky Shipyard

Here they service ships of various classes, overhaul power plants, manufacture ship cranes, grabs, hydraulic loaders, barges and other products. Among his partners are civil organizations and the Russian Navy. In addition to repair work, the shipyard assembles vessels of various classes: dry cargo, technical, auxiliary, self-propelled and non-self-propelled.