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14-478: The village originally known as Soromovo ( Соромово ) had existed since 1542. In 1849, the Sormovo Works—soon one of Russia's most important machine-building plants, later known as Krasnoye Sormovo —was founded; its owner had the village renamed to more euphonic Sormovo . Although legally a village, it soon grew into a large workers' settlement; in 1922, Sormovo became a city; in 1929, it was amalgamated into

28-848: Is in charge of a cruise ship named after Mustai Karim , a Bashkir Soviet poet, writer and playwright. The Krasnoye Sormovo Factory was awarded two Orders of Lenin (1943, 1949), Order of the October Revolution (1970), Order of the Patriotic War (1 Class, 1945), and Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1939). The factory is now a part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation . 900 mm gauge railways 900 mm ( 2 ft  11 + 7 ⁄ 16  in ) narrow-gauge railways are generally found in Europe . This gauge

42-404: Is mostly used for light urban rail networks, industrial and agricultural railways. In Sweden, there was an extensive network of railways with 891 mm ( 2 ft  11 + 3 ⁄ 32  in ) track, some of them remain. This close enough to 900 mm ( 2 ft  11 + 7 ⁄ 16  in ) that they are more or less compatible, and some sales of rolling stock between

56-593: Is one of the oldest shipbuilding factories in Russia, located in the Sormovsky City District of Nizhny Novgorod (formerly called Gorky). The shipyard was established in 1849 by companies Nizhny Novgorod Machine Factory (Нижегородская машинная фабрика) and Volga Steam Navigation (Волжское пароходство). It was originally called the Nizhny Novgorod Machine Factory . In 1851, the factory began

70-481: The Volga shoreline, due to much of it being used by shipyards and floodlands. Instead, the locals prefer to use sand beaches on several artificial lakes, which formed several decades ago in the pits left from defunct sand quarries . Sokol Aircraft Plant and its airfield are located just south of the border of Sormovsky City District, within the neighboring Moskovsky City District of Nizhny Novgorod. Between 1956 and 1970,

84-568: The chief products of Sormovo Works was steam locomotives , although the plant continued building river paddle steamers for Volga service and, on a lesser scale, other industrial products. Lists of the factory's products from that period are preserved in magazines also found in collections both in Russia and elsewhere. Sormovo Work advertised in many industrial magazines, the last ads having been printed as late as 1916. The factory had close connections with Krauss Lokomotive Works in Munich, Germany until

98-771: The city of Nizhny Novgorod, becoming one of its districts. It is one of the city's industrial districts. Besides Krasnoye Sormovo, its well-known enterprises include the Volga Shipyard (which was spun off from Krasnoye Sormovo in 1970, and is geographically adjacent to its parent plant) and the Sormovo Confectionery Factory ( Сормовская кондитерская фабрика ). The May Day demonstration, mentioned in The Mother by Maxim Gorky , took place in Sormovo, 1902. The district does not have good, conveniently accessible beaches on

112-686: The construction of solid metal steamers . Three years later, it developed the production of screw schooners . In 1858, the Nizhny Novgorod Machine Factory produced the first Russian steam dredger . In 1870, the first Russian open hearth furnace was built at the yard, followed by a two-decked steamship Perevorot just a year later. In 1913, it produced a dry bulk cargo ship Danilikha . The factory built 489 ships between 1849 and 1918. It also produced steam engines , carriages, steam locomotives , tramcars, bridges, diesel engines , cannons, pontoons , and projectiles . Since 1898, one of

126-610: The factory changed its name by appending the adjective Krasnoye (Red) to it. During the German-Soviet War of 1941-1945, the Krasnoye Sormovo Factory produced T-34 medium tanks. The turret for the upgunned T-34-85 was designed here by V. Kerichev in 1943. After the war, the factory switched to the sectional and large-block construction of ships, sea and river tankers , suction dredgers, and dredgers. They developed an automated process of pouring and cutting slabs with

140-701: The outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Krauss sold its first 1,524 mm ( 5 ft ) 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, a 900 mm ( 2 ft  11 + 7 ⁄ 16  in ) gauge 0-4-0T (Bt-n2) to Sormovo's internal industrial railway with Krauss works number 1668 / 1885. During 1898–1917, Sormovo Works built 2164 steam locomotives. During 1918–1935, another 1111 standard Russian 1,524 mm gauge steam locomotives were built there. Then followed

154-575: The territory of today's Moskovsky District was part of the Sormovsky District, meaning that during that time the Sormovo Airfield was actually within the Sormovsky District. Krasnoye Sormovo 56°22′N 43°52′E  /  56.367°N 43.867°E  / 56.367; 43.867 Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard No. 112 named after Andrei Zhdanov ( Russian : Судостроительное предприятие "Кра́сное Со́рмово" имени А. А. Жданова )

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168-589: The two-year period when Sormovo built 200 750 mm ( 2 ft  5 + 1 ⁄ 2  in ) gauge 0-8-0 (D-h2) Kolomna Locomotive Works factory type 157 steam locomotives, after which the factory switched to making submarine diesel motors. After the German-Soviet War of 1941-45, the steam locomotive production resumed; this time on the production line was the fourth and last version of standard Soviet passenger type Su 2-6-2 (1C1-h2) steam locomotives. Overall, 411 steam locomotives were built in 1947–1951. The total steam locomotive production during 1898–1951

182-553: The use of radioisotope technology, produced the first Soviet hydrofoils ( Raketa ), designed. They also built passenger diesel -electric ships Lenin and Soviet Union for the Volga River Navigation company, the first high-speed passenger hovercraft Sormovich , a few diesel-electric railroad ferries for the Baku - Krasnovodsk route, and a unique 250-tonne double-hulled floating crane Kyor-Ogly . Currently, this company

196-655: Was 3886 steam locomotives. (Rakov 1995) During the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920, the Nizhny Novgorod Machine Factory built armored trains , armored carriages, and weapons for the vessels of the Volga Military Flotilla . In 1920, the factory remanufactured fourteen burnt-out French Renault FT tanks for the Red Army , the Russkiy Renos , and assembled a single new copy, named 'Freedom Fighter Lenin'. In 1922,

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