Pozhtekhnika

1930 - At the end of 1930, the USSR People's Commissariat decided to build a plant in Torzhok to repair tractors and other agricultural equipment. For two years, from 1931 to 1932, exploration work on the area known as Zapolek was carried out, in 1932 the plant began to be built. During the construction of the company began to build barracks for workers. Construction lasted until 1935 .
1935 - The first batch of machines was repaired in the workshops of the plant. It was from these cars that the plant led its history.
1936 - On April 22, the people's commissariat of the local industry approved a program for the construction of new areas at the site of the tractor-repair plant for the production of flax-processing machines . In the same year, the plant opened its own production of machines for processing flax.
1939 - By a decree of February 9, 1939, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR transferred the Novotorzhsky plant to the jurisdiction of the Main Directorate of Fire Fighting Equipment . The company became known as the Novotorzhsky plant of fire - fighting equipment .
It was then allowed (to redesign the plant. At that, it was planned to manufacture cars on the chassis of heavy car brands, including 45-meter auto-mechanical ladders. In the same year, the plant began producing fire engines on the GAZ-AA chassis, and in the next, a gasoline tank truck. The plant gradually Gaining strength. The workshops came to life: the first machines were installed, the necessary equipment. Yu. Novotorzhskiy fire - fighting equipment plant was to become the leading manufacturer of fire-fighting products, but this was not possible at the time.
1941 - The Great Patriotic War began . In August 1941, the plant was evacuated to the village Vargashi of the Kurgan region . For four years he produced fire fighting equipment and other cars, providing them with front and rear. Subsequently, the Vargashinsky PPO plant will be formed on its base and using its accumulated experience. The territory and buildings of the evacuated plant in Torzhok were not empty: in the period 1941-1945. it housed military repair shops .
1945 - Workers, engineers, technicians, employees began to return from evacuation and immediately began to restore the plant. In the first post-war years, the ministry provided a large amount of organizational and technical assistance to the plant. According to the development of the newly created technical department, the plant is developing new types of work: sheet rolling , seam and spot welding , gas welding , hydrotesting. For the first time in the USSR , mass production of OP-1 foam extinguishers was carried out.
1948 - The design task for reconstruction of old and construction of new workshops was approved. The plant increases its capacity and proceeds to the serial production of mobile and manual carbon dioxide fire extinguishers , as well as foam fire extinguishers UP-1, UP-2.
1949 - Mass production of OU-5 manual carbon dioxide fire extinguishers . The first block of workshops with an area of ​​5,246 square meters was reconstructed, where the machine shop , the galvanic and thermal sections were located.
1950 - The Fifties were marked by the release of the first auto-mechanical ladders , automatic fire extinguishing systems and cars for the military-industrial complex of the country. Continued organizational and technical improvement of production. To develop and implement their own domestic technical solutions in the creation of a new for the USSR fire equipment in the town of Torzhok , a Special Design Bureau (OKB-7) is being created. Among the first developments of which projects are automechanical ladders with a height of 32 m.

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