Luhanskteplovoz

OJSC Luhanskteplovoz
Company typeOpen joint stock company
IndustryRail vehicle manufacturing
Founded1896[1]
FounderGustav Hartmann[2]
Defunct2015
Fatelooted[3] in 2015 during the war in Donbas
production stopped in 2015 (Ukrainian sources) or 2016 (Russian sources)[3][4]
Headquarters
Luhansk
,
Ukraine
Key people
Director: Bykadorov Viktor
Deputy chairman of the Board : Gennady G. Basov
Chief Designer: Konstantin Pavlovich Mishchenko
Chief Technologist : Eugene A. Yakimenko[5][6]
ProductsLocomotives
OwnerTransmashholding[4]
Number of employees
>7000 (2009)[7]
Websitewww.luganskteplovoz.com

Luhanskteplovoz (Ukrainian: Луганськтепловоз or Luhansk Locomotive Works), earlier known as Voroshilovgrad Locomotive Works is a large industrial company in Luhansk, Ukraine, manufacturing locomotives, multiple unit trains (both electric and diesel) as well as other heavy equipment. Due to the war in Donbas it has not been operating since March 2015.[3] According to media reports, by late 2015 the works were looted and completely inoperational.[3]

The company was founded in 1896 as Russische Maschinenbaugesellschaft Hartmann in Lugansk (Russian Engineering Company Hartmann in Luhansk) and renamed October Revolution Locomotive Factory in November 1922.[1]

In the second half of the twentieth century the plant produced thousands of the well known 'M62 locomotive' and DR Class 130 (TE109) ("ludmillas") diesel electric locomotives for eastern European Soviet Bloc countries.

  1. ^ a b Maurice Railroad Equipment Industry List (MREIL) List of European locomotive and rolling stock manufacturers collated by Maurice Jansen, via railfaneurope.net
  2. ^ Company History Archived 2009-01-24 at the Wayback Machine luganskteplovoz.com
  3. ^ a b c d "The Luhanskteplovoz plant has been almost completely looted: the equipment is being scrapped. PHOTO". Censor.Net (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference 2607641Luhanskteplovoz was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ The leadership of the Company Archived 2009-01-23 at the Wayback Machine luganskteplovoz.com
  6. ^ Technical services Archived 2009-05-25 at the Wayback Machine luganskteplovoz.com
  7. ^ Composition of the company Archived 2009-05-25 at the Wayback Machine luganskteplovoz.com