Ekaterinburg - an Industrial Centre

Ekaterinburg is one of the leading industrial centres of Russia. There are over 200 industrial enterprises of all-Russia importance in it. The key industry is machine-building. The plants of our city produce walking excavators, electric motors, turbines, various equipment for industrial enterprises.

During the Great Patriotic War Sverdlovsk plants supplied the front with arms and munitions and delivered various machinery for restoration of Donbass collieries and industrial enterprises of the Ukraine.

The biggest plants of our city are the Urals Heavy Machine Building Plant (the Uralmash), the Urals Electrical Engineering Plant (Uralelectrotyazhmash), the Torbomotorny Works (TMZ), the Chemical Machinery Building Works (Chimmash), the Verkh Iset Metallurgical Works (VIZ) and many others.

The Urals Heavy Machinery Building Plant was built in the years of the first five-year plan period. It has begun to turn out production in 1933. The machines and equipment produced by the Uralmash have laid the foundation for the home iron and steel, mining and oil industries. The plant produces walking excavators and draglines, drilling rigs for boring super-deep holes, crushing and milling equipment for concentrators. The plant also produces rolling-mills, highly efficient equipment for blast furnaces, powerful hydraulic presses and other machines. The trade mark of the Uralmash is well-known all over the world.

The Electrical Engineering plant was put into operation in 1934. At the present time it is a great complex of heavy electrical machine-building. It produces powerful hydrogenerators, transformers, air and oil switches, rectifiers & other electrical equipment. Besides, it is one of the main producers of high-voltage machinery.

The Turbo-Motorny Works produces turbines & diesel motors for powerful trucks. The turbines manufactured by this plant are widely known not only in our country, but also abroad. The plant turned out its first turbines in 1941.

The Urals Chemical Works, the greatest plant in the country, produces machinery for the chemical industry. It also produces vacuum- filters used in different branches of oil industry.

The Verkh-Iset Metallurgical Works the oldest industrial enterprise in Ekaterinburg is now the chief producer of high grade transformer steel in the country.

Now complex mechanization & automation of production processes are being used at all industrial enterprises of Ekaterinburg. Its plants make great contribution to the development of our country’s national economy.

Ekaterinburg – a Center of Science & Education

Ekaterinburg is one of the largest & most important centers of science & education in our country. The city has 15 higher schools. The oldest of them are the Mining & the Polytechnical Institutes, the Urals State University founded in 1920, the Medical & Pedagogical & many others. Ekaterinburg higher schools train specialists for practically all branches of industry, economy, education & science. The city has a student population of about 80 thousand. Besides, there are many secondary and vocational schools and over 50 technical schools (colleges). The oldest of them is the Mining Metallurgical College named after Polzunov, founded in 1847.

Much important scientific research work is carried on in Ekaterinburg. The Urals Branch of Sciences, now called the Urals Scientific Centre (UNZ), was founded in 1932. Its first chairman was the famous Soviet scientist, mineralogist and geochemist A.E. Fersman. UNZ is the main centre of scientific work now. It contains nine institutes which solve the most important theoretical and practical problems in the field of geology, mining, metallurgy, biology, economy and others.

The city has more than 120 research and designing institutions, among them Uralmechanobr, Unipromed, Nipigormash and others. It is worth mentioning that important scientific and research work is also carried on in educational establishments and at the industrial enterprises of the city, such as the Uralmash, Uralelectrotyazmash and others.

Thousands of research workers, among them 5 academicians, 10 Corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, many Doctors and Masters of Science are engaged in scientific and research work.

Ekaterinburg has contributed greatly to the development of Russian science.

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