Our achievements

Of late years «VAGONMASH» CJSC successfully developed and realized several significant projects in car-building field.

From the recent accomplished projects it may be mentioned the making of three modern Dining cars for the new train (named «Express» and having Luxe-category). The cars have a new interior, improved lay-out, exclusive designed workmanship and supplemented kitchen equipment. In August 2007 the enterprise have agreed and signed the engineering proposal on development and producing of these Dining cars with one of its core customers - JSC «Russian Railways». Thus, from the end of December, 2007, these cars included in «Express» began to receive the first passengers. From 2003, «VAGONMASH» CJSC builds Dining cars for «Russian Railways» meaning to include them into its trains, although manufacture of Luxe category restaurant cars was performed by the Company for the first time.

The other project, which ended in August 2009, was the supply of cars for the Warsaw Underground (Poland). In summer, 2007 «VAGONMASH» CJSC concluded an export contract on delivering of first 30 cars. In April 2009, signed a contract to supply two additional trains.  «VAGONMASH» CJSC supplied in Poland 42 cars in total. All cars were specially designed in compliance with Warsaw metropolitan technical requirements. They essentially differ from serial car models in produce because of their new original interior, made from fire-resistant materials and highly efficient induced ventilation system. As a consequence, was considerably reduced noise level in passenger saloons by way of escaping traditional ventilation. The cars are equipped with modern fire alarm and automatic fire extinguishing systems for separate flammable parts. In car saloons there are installed European made anti-vandal seats. Complex digital information system enables the following functions: video surveillance of all saloons and cabins with video data saving, voice data translation over the train, “passenger-locoman” communication, translation and data displaying onto digital information panels “roll captions” provided two by two in each car. Two light lines based on fluorescent tubes provide the required lightning and comply harmonically with passenger saloon design. The cars have an outside lacquer coating with increased flameproof properties, produced by European firm.  Asbestos containing materials are excluded from car construction. The head end is made on metal frame base, glass fiber coated on the outside. The head end is provided with a door enabling the passenger evacuation onto railway tracks in case of emergency. The locoman’s cabin is made in compliance with modern ergonomic requirements; it has an augmented windscreen, as well as original rearview mirrors which enable in complex the increased observability for the locoman. The advanced locoman’s control panel is designed in accordance with Russian and European ergonomic requirements, is equipped with new control instrumentation, light-signaling and commutation elements used by worldwide leading rail transport producers. The locoman’s new controller – the key instrument of train movement control, is designed on a modern elemental base which enabled sizable reducing of its parameters.

The enterprise is not content with gained results. At present «VAGONMASH» CJSC is running a big capital projects targeted at the production of the first Russian subway train of the IV generation, a unique product on the Russian market, whereas its technical parameters, design and major engineering solutions is completely in line with international standards accepted by the world leading car makers (NeVa project). «VAGONMASH» CJSC launched NeVa projects in the beginning of 2007, when the company sighed and agreement with Skoda Transportation on engineering development of the product. The protocol on cooperation was signed on November 4th, 2007 during the visit of Saint Petersburg officials to Czech Republic in attendance of Valentina Matvienko, the Governor of Saint Petersburg and Mirek Topolanek, the Prime Minister of Czech Republic. On 10 July 2009, «VAGONMASH» CJSC introduced the first new street car of NeVa series. The ceremony was attended by St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matvienko, representatives of city administration, as well as the heads of the leading undergrounds of Russia, CIS and foreign countries. In January of 2011 in anticipation of the first cars’ transfer (NeVa project) for testing to GUP »Petersburg Metro«, the company was visited by the heads of St. Petersburg administration headed by the Governor. In the current year VAGONMASH is planning to receive a certificate of compliance with the subsequent participation in the tender for the supply of subway cars NeVa for the St. Petersburg metro. Testing of the first cars began in March 2011. The company management made a decision to built a new manufacturing facility at the company’s subsidiary - «Petersburg Tram-Mechanical Factory» OJSC (Kalinisky district, Saint Petersburg) with a special purpose to make there new NeVa trains. Shortly after construction of the facility should is finished in 2013, the subsidiary is to start serial production of the new trains. The overall investments into the production of the first six-car train and construction of manufacturing facility will amount to RUB 3 billion.

Also, one of the largest projects realized by the Company of late years concerns development and producing new generation cars for Kazan Underground Railroad. «VAGONMASH» CJSC built five 4-car trains with asynchronous drive and microprocessor control system. In February, 2005, the enterprise formally presented the first electric train built for Tatarstan’s capital.  At the ceremony took part Kazan’s mayor Kamil Ischakov, his deputies and other city authorities. «We are glad because for our tube there were applied the latest achievements of subway technologies, many of them were put in use for the first time”, said then Mr. Ischakov. The formal Kazan Underground Railways opening took place on August 27, 2005, in the days when the Millennium of Kazan was celebrated. The opening ceremony attended: President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, President of Republic of Tatarstan M.SH. Shaimiev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.A.Nazarbayev, leaders of Russian Federation subjects, Russian government ministers.

«VAGONMASH» CJSC appears as a producer of the first in Russia and CIS subway car with asynchronous traction drive which was made in 2001 for Kiev Underground Railways.