Motor Sich

Russian Empire

The company was founded in the city of Aleksandrovsk, Yekaterinoslav Province of the Russian Empire in 1907. Until December 1915, the plant produced agricultural machinery and tools, performed various types of machining, cast iron and copper products. During the First World War, Russia needed to establish the production of aircraft engines. In December 1915, the joint-stock company Duflon, Konstantinovich and Co. (“Deka”) bought out the plant and changed its profile to produce aircraft engines. Already in August 1916, the first engine was made for aviation - the 6-cylinder “Deka M-100” with water cooling ^[4] . His drawings were created under the guidance of engineer Vorobiev ^[5] .

USSR

Ukraine

In 1999, the plant received the status of a special exporter (the right to self-export of military products) ^[6] .

As of 2010, Motor Sich PJSC produced and accompanied in operation 55 types and modifications of engines for 61 types of airplanes and helicopters ^[7] .

Until March 2013, the company was headed by V. A. Boguslaev . Since March 2013 and. about. Sergey Voytenko, Production Director and Minority Shareholder of Motor Sich, became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Motor Sich PJSC.

In 2013, Motor Sich ranked fifth in the ranking of the leading high-tech engineering enterprises in Ukraine in terms of managerial innovation. ^[eight]

In mid-November 2014, the company Motor Sich announced the suspension of the supply of engines for Russian cruise missiles. ^[9]

On April 23, 2018, SBU officers searched the company, trading in shares on Ukrainian stock exchanges was frozen. The official reason is “ sabotage ” by the management of the company. In the company itself they consider this to be a raider seizure of an enterprise ^[10] .

Aircraft aircraft

• Turbojet dual circuit: AI-22 , AI-222-25 , AI-222K-25 (F), AI-25 series 2E, AI-25TL / TLK / TLSh, D-18T series 1/3 / 3M, D-36 series 1 / 2A / 3A / 4A , D-436 T1 / TP / TP-M, D-436-148, MS-400
• Turbofan: D-27
• Turboprop: AI-20 , AI-24 , MS-14 , TB3-117 VMA-SBM1

Helicopter

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  History of Motor Sich products
  Turbos: AI-450M, VK-2500, D-136 series 1, D-136-2, MS-500V, TV3-117 VM, TV3-117VMA, TV3-117VMA-SBM1V

Auxiliary power units

Gas turbine engines AI-8 , AI-9 , AI-9V, AI9-3B, AI-450-MS

Ground gas turbine engines

• D-336-1 / 2 / 2T with a capacity of 6.3 MW
• AI-336-1 / 2 with a capacity of 8 MW
• AI-336-1 / -2-10 with a capacity of 10 MW

Gas turbine power plants

• "Motor Sich EG-1000"
• PAES-2500 , EG-2500T
• "Motor Sich EG-6000, EG-8000"

Consumer goods

• Boat outboard motors "Motor Sich-40".
• Mechanical meat grinders and attachments to them, in particular, juicers .
• Milk separators .

In accordance with the Charter, the Motor Sich Joint-Stock Company without the right of a legal entity with the right to open current or settlement accounts includes separate divisions - structural units ^[11] :

The subsidiaries of Motor Sich are ^[11] :

• Gulyaypolsky machine-building plant
• Gulyaypolsky mechanical plant
• Lebedinsky Engine Plant

Zaporozhye Engine Plant

The history of the head plant originates from the moment the Deka plant was established in 1907 in Aleksandrovsk (since 1921 - Zaporizhia ). The main structural unit of the enterprise manufactured aircraft engines, carried out their repair and maintenance, manufactured drives for gas and oil pumping units, mobile automated power plants, a number of consumer goods.

In Soviet times, the plant also bore the name: Motor Plant No. 29 .

Zaporozhye Machine-Building Plant named after V. I. Omelchenko

In connection with the development of the production of large-sized D-18T engines, a new testing station was built on the right-bank site (Zaporozhye);

The main activity of the plant is foundry , testing of D-18T engines. Also, the plant produces gas turbine power plants with a capacity of 1000, 6000 kW.

Snezhnyansky Machine-Building Plant

In 1970 in the town of Snezhnoe, Donetsk region. the first branch of the plant was organized, which in 1974 was transformed into the Snezhnyansky engineering plant. SMZ was the industry’s first specialized factory for the production of gas turbine engine blades.

The plant manufactures parts for aircraft engines (compressor disks, compressor blades and turbines blades), parts and components for mining equipment, and consumer goods.

As of 2013, the plant employed more than 3,000 people. The plant is headed by director Nedashkovsky Alexander Petrovich, a deputy of the Donetsk Regional Council.

Public Joint-Stock Company “Motor Sich” announced the loss of control over the management of the assets of the separate division “Snezhnyansky Machine-Building Plant” from December 20, 2017, which is located in the territory of Donetsk Oblast uncontrolled by Ukraine ^[13] .

Volochysky Machine-Building Plant

In 1971, the Volochisk Machine-Building Plant was established in Volochisk, Khmelnitsky region . The main task of the established plant is to ensure the assembly of aircraft engines with large-circulation parts and hardware, production of tooling.

A workshop for the production of mobile automated power plants PAES-2500 , repair of AI-20 engines and its modifications AI-20DKE, AI-20DKN, AI-20DME, AI-20DMN was organized at VMZ.

In addition, VSW produces auto parts, a number of products of the agricultural group.

Lubensky Machine Tool Plant

From April 2012, Shlifverst OJSC became part of Motor Sich and was named the Lubensky Machine-Tool Building Plant. The main products of the plant are circular grinding machines with different levels of automation, from manual machines to modern CNC machines. Also, the plant has successfully mastered the overhaul and modernization (with the restoration of the norms of accuracy) of lathes, surface grinding, vertical milling, machining centers and other machine tools.

Motor Sich Airlines

Motor Sich Airline was established in 1991 and is one of the divisions of Motor Sich PJSC. The airline is equipped with passenger and transport aircraft and helicopters. The airline's fleet consists of Yak-40 , Yak-42 , An-12 , An-24 , An-26 , An-74TK-200 , An-140 .

The share of Motor Sich in the Russian market in 2009 was 50%, but in 2010 it dropped to 30% (while in the structure of Motor Sich’s export supplies, the share of Asian countries, particularly China, began to grow. Earlier with this country an agreement was made for the supply of 250 AI-222-25F engines for training aircraft L-15 ) ^[14] .

In 2009-2011, negotiations were held on the joint production of Ukrainian MS-500V engines for training Ansat helicopters , which were unsuccessful ^[14] . However, in November 2011, Motor Sich PJSC and Russian Helicopters OJSC signed a five-year contract worth $ 1.5 billion, according to which a Zaporizhia-based company will annually supply up to 270 engines for the Ka-31 , Ka-32 , and Mi-17 to Russia , Mi-8 MTV , Mi-24 , Mi-28 ^[15] .

In the spring of 2014, the Ukrainian government banned military-technical cooperation with Russia. Then, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, by his decree No. 549/2015, on September 16 put into effect the decision of the National Security Council of Ukraine of September 2 “On the use of personal special and economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions)”. Russian consumers of Motor Sich products came under sanctions, namely, various modifications of the TV3-117 , VK-2500 helicopter engines and AI-9V auxiliary power units. ^[sixteen]

In 2017, the construction of an aircraft engine manufacturing plant began in Chongqing , in which Motor Sich and the Chinese company Tianjiao are taking part. In the production of engines will be used Ukrainian technology ^{[17] [18] [19]} .

As of 2016, the company "Motor Sich" was a member of the following associations ^[11] :

• Ukrainian Aviation Industry Association “Ukraviroprom” (Ukraine)
• Interregional Association of Industrialists of Ukraine (Ukraine)
• Association "Union of Aviation Engine Building" (Russian Federation)
• Corporation "Scientific-Production Association A. Ivchenko" (Ukraine)
• Zaporozhye Regional Union of Industrialists, Entrepreneurs "Potential" (Ukraine)
• Non-profit organization "Union of Oil and Gas Equipment Manufacturers Naftogaz" (Russian Federation)
• Consortium "Gas Transportation Technologies" (Ukraine)
• Non-profit partnership "Union of Aviation Industry" (Russian Federation)
• Kazakh-Ukrainian Association of Entrepreneurs (Republic of Kazakhstan)
• European Aerospace Quality Group (EAQG) ^[20]

Until 2018, the enterprise was included in the calculation base of the PFTS stock exchange index ^[21] .

At various times, first as part of Russian, then Soviet, and then Ukrainian industry, the company had the following names: ^[22]

• Plant for the production of aircraft engines of foreign models of the joint-stock company Duflon, Konstantinovich and Co. (1916-1920),
• The plant "Bolshevik" (1920-1927),
• State Union Plant number 29 (1927-1933),
• Plant number 29 of the People's Commissariat of the aviation industry / Aircraft Repair Plant. P.I. Baranova (1933–1943),
• Plant No. 478 of the People's Commissariat → Ministry of Aviation Industry (1943-1954),
• PO Box 18 (1954-1962),
• Zaporozhye Motor-Building Plant named after P. I. Baranov (ZMZ) (1962—1974),
• Zaporozhye Motor-Building Production Association (1974-1981),
• Zaporizhzhya PA "Motorostroitel" named after the Great October Socialist Revolution (1981-1991),
• Motor Sich Plant (1991),
• Motor Sich JSC (1991 — n. In.).

Zaporizhia Engine Plant was awarded the following state awards : ^[23]

•   Order of Lenin - 1966,
•   Order of the Red Banner of Labor - 1977,
•   Order of the October Revolution - 1981.

• The name of the company “Motor Sich” ( Ukrainian “Motor Sich” ) comes from the word “Sich”, that is, the Zaporizhian Sich .
• Motor Sich prepared a VIP aircraft based on the passenger An-74 for the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ^[33] .

• ZMKB Progress named after academician A. G. Ivchenko .
• Zaporozhye Aviation College named after A. G. Ivchenko .

• Motor Sich JSC is the official website of the company.
• Ukraine. Staly Retail 2006 2006 Staly Retail Industrial >> >> Motor Sich JSC (Ukr.) . Archived June 19, 2013.
• Company profile on the website of the Agency for the Development of Stock Market Infrastructure