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BMZ/БМЗ - Bryansk Machine-Building Plant

Pre-Revolutionary Times: When the Bryansk Machine-Building Plant was founded by P. Gubonin and V. Golubevon on June 20th, 1873, it was originally named "Joint Stock Company of the Bryansk Rail, Iron and Engineering Enterprise for Production of Metal and Minerals, Cast Iron Smelting, Iron and Steel Production and Preparation of these Products For sale”, and it was originally designed for making cross sleepers for the Riga-Orel Railway that was being built at the time. The factory grew rapidly, and the village, Bezhitsa, was built around it. In pre-revolutionary times, the factory/enterprise created rails, rail bridges, bulldozers, steam pumps, river steamboats, locomotives, cars, artillery shells and many other products By 1910, the plant became the largest industrial enterprise with a well-organized production of locomotives and cars, general, agricultural, and military. The BMZ provided artillery shells during WWI towards the Russian Empire.

Revolution/Soviet Union Times: After the October Revolution, BMZ made armoured trains for the Soviets. It gave about 19% of the total production of locomotives, and 60% of all heavy rolling stock in the Soviet Union. Around 1920, they actually created their own training center to train specialists for the enterprise. During the "Great Patriotic War", the factories were evacuated, with most staff and supplies going with them, to flee the invading Nazi Army. They returned in 1945 and renamed the enterprise to "People's Commissariat of Transport Engineering." They resumed production in 1946.

Over the next 10 years, the enterprise has been making steam turbines and and the same time organizing "the production of new products for the country" (whatever that means lmao), and have designed 20 rolling stock for the country. In 1958, they were trusted with organizing the production of the TEM1, an American RSD1 import. A few years later in September 1961, the BMZ started to produce the very famous and popular TEM2. Since that time, nearly a thousand locomotives where created and sent to shipyards. Also since 1962, they started to produce mechanically heated and refrigerated rolling stock for perishable items. Since the 70s, the enterprise has been organizing the production of consumer goods, which household heating being the main example.

Post-Soviet Times: In 1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the plant renamed itself to the "Bryansk Machine-Building Plant", and became a joint-stock company after nearly 70 years. The fall of the Soviet Union massively effected the enterprise, with huge decreases in production of nearly all products, and a delay of release for newer products. In 2002, BMZ was bought out be Transmashholding, which claims to be the "largest company on the railway machine-building market." The BMZ started to work on the first Russian (non-soviet) mainline diesel, and the result was the 2TE25, which later started production in 2006 as the 2TE25. From 2003-2017, the plant produce a variation of freight cars, some of these included rolling stock like the model 19-3018 grain hopper and the model 19-3054-01 mineral carriers. The main products of the current enterprise are shunting and mainline diesel locomotives, spare parts for railway transport, and some other random products/consumer goods that don't need to be mentioned.

Shunting Locomotives:

Soviet Times:

  • TEM1/TEM2A/TEM2T (Tropical)
  • TEM2M
  • TEM2T (Upgraded with better brakes)
  • TEM2U/TEM2US/TEM2UM

Modern Times:

  • TEM18DM
  • TEM19
  • TEM28
  • TEM-TMH

Mainline Locomotives:

Soviet Times:

  • N/A

Modern Times:

  • 2TE25
  • 2TE25A/2TE25KM
  • 3TE25K2M