GPZ-2

The production was created as the Swedish bearing company SKF Ball Bearing ^{[2] [3]} , the buildings of which were built in Moscow in 1916 ^[4] , and the founders were E. L. Nobel and A. F. Cherberg. After the revolution, the company was nationalized and renamed the "Second State Bearing Plant." ^[five]

Factory workers took part in the October Revolution and in the Civil War in Russia . After the revolution, factory workers participated in the construction and commissioning of the First Bearing Plant in Moscow. ^[five]

Until 1932, GPZ-2 was the only manufacturer of bearings for various purposes in the USSR until the First GPZ was built ^[6] .

During the Second World War, the production of bearings of the plant was moved to Tomsk . In 1943, the plant was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor ^[5] . After the war, part of the production remained in Tomsk (GPZ-5).

The plant had its own newspaper “For the Soviet Bearing”, previously alternately bearing the name “Leninsky Way”, “Ball Bearing”, and “Stakhanov Labor” ^[5] .

In the 1980s, part of the production, in order to optimize, was transferred to the village of Vasilyevsky Mokh, Tver Region ^[7] (correctional colony of strict regime IK-10) ^[8] and in the village of Metallists of the Kalinin district of the Tver region.

In 1993, the plant was corporatized and received the name "Shabolovsky Bearing Plant" (JSC "ShPZ") , since 1996 - OAO "Shabolovsky Bearing Plant (GPZ-2) " ^[5] .

In 2016, the plant was transferred to Tver and reorganized into LLC GPZ-2 Tver with the status of “Assignee”. ^[9]

According to the director of the enterprise, it produces rolling and sliding bearings, thrust, angular contact, single row double row and other ball bearings, weighing from 4 to 6,000 g, with an outer diameter of 6 to 215 mm - only about 1240 items ^[10] .

The general director of the plant is Tereshchenko Vladimir Ivanovich (since 1996) ^[11] .

General Director of the plant - Savikhin Alexander Mikhailovich (since 2016) ^[9]

At different times, the directors of the plant were Valery Vladimirovich Novikov, Dmitry Petrovich Yulin and others. ^[6]

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• The first-born of the bearing industry in Russia is 90 years old // Automotive Industry: Journal. - 2006. - No. 12 .
• Semenova A. A., Pilipenko M. V. Modeling the process of optimizing the innovation activity of an enterprise // Internet journal "SCIENCE" - Vol. 7, No. 2 (2015).

• Boss Magazine. Article by Nikolai Vlasov “Victor VASIN: a development strategy for the country's engineering complex is needed”
• Reports of ZAO Audit-Master Auditing Firm on the financial and economic activities of GPZ-2 Open Joint-Stock Company
• State Bearing Plant No. 2 (OAO GPZ-2) has successfully passed all tests with the country - “Evening Moscow”, December 17, 2007.