Global InformationMalyshev Factory information
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Native name | Завод імені В.О. Малишева |
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| Company type | State-owned |
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| Founded | 1945 (initially in 1895) |
| Headquarters | Kharkiv , Ukraine |
| Products | Tanks, locomotives, ship parts |
Number of employees | 5000 (2015) |
| Parent | Ukroboronprom[1] |
| Website | www |
The Malyshev Factory (Ukrainian: Завод імені В.О. Малишева, romanized: Zavod imeni V.O. Malysheva; abbreviated ЗІМ, ZIM), formerly the Kharkov Locomotive Factory (Russian: Харьковский паровозостроительный завод, romanized: Khar'kovskiy parovozostroitel'nyy zavod, ХПЗ, KhPZ), is a state-owned manufacturer of heavy equipment in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was named after the Soviet politician Vyacheslav Malyshev. The factory is part of the state concern, Ukroboronprom.
It produces diesel engines, farm machinery, coal mining, sugar refining, and wind farm equipment, but is best known for its production of Soviet tanks, including the BT tank series of fast tanks, the famous T-34 of the Second World War, the Cold War T-64 and T-80, and their modern Ukrainian successor, the T-84. The factory is closely associated with the Morozov Design Bureau (KMDB), designer of military armoured fighting vehicles and the Kharkov Engine Design Bureau (KEDB)[2] for engines. In 1958, it developed the Kharkovchanka, an off-road vehicle which reached the South Pole the following year.
At its height during the Soviet era, the factory employed 60,000 of Kharkov's 1.5 million inhabitants.[1]
As of 2015[update], 5,000 people worked at the factory.[1]
- ^ a b c Tank factory workers decry war that pits Ukrainian against Ukrainian, Al Jazeera America (27 February 2015)
- ^ "Харьковское конструкторское бюро по двигателестроению (ХКБД) (Kharkiv Engine Design Bureau building (KEDB))". Status quo. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014.