Vyksa Metallurgical Plant

The structure of JSC "VMZ" includes subsidiaries:

• VMZ-Techno LLC (production of tools and parts, waste processing of metallurgical production, production of consumer goods, garden tools, shipping details, powder metallurgy),
• LLC OMK-Tour (hotel business),
• LLC OMK-CES (activities for the provision of audit and consulting services in the field of accounting, legal support, advice on business and management),
• LLC VMZ-Comfort (improvement and cleaning, maintenance of buildings).

In the first decades of the 18th century, the first primitive enterprises (springs - “pipes”) appeared in the vicinity of the Vyksa River, where artisanal production of iron was carried out. The industrial development of metallurgy in these parts is connected with the decree of the daughter of Peter I Elizabeth, who “to protect forests from destruction” ordered to close a number of factories at a distance of two hundred miles from Moscow. The list compiled by the Senate included enterprises of the well-known "iron factories of industrialists" Andrei and Ivan Batashevs , and the brothers were forced to go in search of new places.

The vicinities of Vyksa at that time were ideally suited for creating a new metallurgical production, where Batashov and Shepel plants were created. The rich deposits of iron ore, proximity to the important transport route - the Oka River - and the proximity to the famous Nizhny Novgorod Fair became the determining factors for the Batashevs. Two years after the relocation, in 1757, the first cast iron on new lands began to be produced - Unzhensky - the Batashevs factory, located in the Vladimir province. The development of the banks of the Vyksa and Veletma began in 1765 . The construction of the new Verkhne-Vyksunsky plant began immediately and a year later, in 1766, it produced almost 5 thousand tons of cast iron - a significant volume at that time. In 1783, the plants were divided between brothers: Andrei Rodionovich got the Gusev group of enterprises in the Vladimir province, Ivan Rodionovich got the Vyksa group in the Nizhny Novgorod province.

During the Pugachev uprising, part of the factory workers supported the rebels. Famous working families in Vyksa - the Ukhovs, Korshunovs, Yastrebovs, Ukharskys, Rakovs, Doronkins, Alekhins, Roshchins, Boykovs, Galkins - the descendants of the Ural craftsmen who participated in the peasant uprising ^[2] .

In total, by the beginning of the 19th century, the Batashevs owned 18 metallurgical plants, 14 of which they built themselves.

The 19th century was an era of prosperity and success for Batashevsky factories. Ivan Rodionovich Batashev, having married his daughter Daria to lieutenant general Dmitry Dmitrievich Shepelev , appointed him to be the manager of the estate and factories. The son-in-law led the job skillfully; with it, steam engines were installed in factories. The case was continued by Ivan Dmirtievich Shepelev (1814–1865), in which the critical method of melting metal was replaced by a progressive pudding method.

In 1836, at the Shepelevsky factories, for the first time in Russia, experiments on hot blast furnace blasting were successfully carried out. A new production method increased smelting ^[3] .

In 1862, Vyksa factories were declared bankrupt. In 1865, they were rented by a British company, which brought the plant to disaster in 1882. The destroyed plants were leased by the German A. Lessing, who modernized production and in 1889 acquired them in ownership. He owned them until the First World War, when in 1914 they were requisitioned from him as "the property of a subject of the enemy side."

At international exhibitions in Paris, Leipzig, Milan, Turin, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan, Batashev's products received first-degree diplomas and gold medals. Vyksa cast iron was famous all over the world. “He is soft and at the same time has an unusual resilience, which he did not notice in his travels at any factory, both Russia, Sweden, England and the USA. The general properties of cast iron are hardness, brittleness, brittleness, but here it is flexible as a spring, and strong in connecting its parts. The proof is the Petrovsky Theater in Moscow, where lodges hang on brackets or on the fingers of this cast iron, ”wrote the famous historian P. P. Svinyin.

In the Soviet era, VMZ became the largest manufacturer of electric-welded pipes and railway wheels. The plant was the first in the country to master the technology of powder metallurgy, and the pipe-welding shop No. 5, built in 1987 using Japanese technology, was considered the best in the Soviet Union . In the last year of the USSR’s existence on Vyksa, the state-of-the-art pipe-welding shop No. 4, the most advanced technological complex in the Soviet pipe industry, was commissioned.

The era of market transformation did not become a period of decline for VMZ. The plant managed to preserve its unique historical face, largely due to the entry into the United Metallurgical Company in 1999. The leader in pipe production, the main supplier of railway wheels for Russian Railways, VSW continues to develop and improve production. Unique modern equipment is put into operation at the enterprise, new technologies are mastered.

Since November 2000, OAO VMZ has been working on a site for applying anti-corrosion coatings; production of pipes with external two- and three-layer anti-corrosion insulation has been mastered.

In 2004, the VMZ-Ladle-Vacuum Unit installation for out-of-furnace treatment of wheel steel and the installation of shot blasting hardening of railway wheels were put into operation at VSW. At the same time, the installation of local heat treatment of the weld was commissioned in the pipe-welding shop No. 3 (TESC-3).

In April 2005, the first in Russia line for the production of straight-seam single-seam pipes for gas and oil pipelines with a diameter of up to 1420 mm and a wall thickness of up to 48 mm was opened at TPP-4 (now the large-diameter electric pipe welding complex). The production of pipes with external anti-corrosion and internal smooth coatings began. Later, in 2008, the screw rolling method was mastered and the production of seamless pipes was launched.

In 2006, VSW was recognized as the largest Russian manufacturer of metal pipes.

In 2007, a volumetric heat treatment section was commissioned for hardening and tempering 114–530 mm diameter pipes from 6 m to 13.72 m long. According to the international tender, VSW became the only Russian pipe supplier for the construction of the underwater section of the Nord Stream gas pipeline »Along the bottom of the Baltic Sea .

In the summer of 2010, the United Metallurgical Company completed the modernization of casing production at TPP No. 5 of the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant. Thanks to the reconstruction, VSW increased the production capacity of casing pipes and expanded the product range by starting to produce complex types of products - high-strength and high-tight pipes for the construction of oil and gas fields. In particular, the company mastered the production of high-strength casing pipes with gas tight threads VMZ-1 of the Premium class.

In 2011, VSW launched a project to reconstruct a pipe-welding shop No. 2 (TPP-2) of a complex of pipes of small and medium diameter. Three new high-tech, automated mills will produce small-diameter water-gas and profile pipes with improved consumer properties. Modernization of production will increase production to 300 thousand tons of products per year.

On November 25, 2011 at the VMZ the metallurgical complex Stan-5000 (MKS-5000) was commissioned. The construction of the complex took 4 years - from May 2007 to October 2011. MKS-5000 products - a thick wide sheet of high-strength steel grades for the manufacture of large-diameter pipes. The design capacity of the complex is 1.5 million tons of sheet (rolled) per year. The goal of the new OMK project is to completely eliminate the dependence of Russian pipe companies on imported sheet deliveries and to provide the Vyksa Steel Plant and Russian pipe companies with their own sheet. In addition to the pipe industry, the ISS-5000 products can be used in shipbuilding, nuclear energy, bridge building and other industries. [one]

In connection with the plans of Russian Railways to develop a network of high-speed railways in Russia, the question arose about the logistics of such activities. In this regard, an agreement was concluded on the start of the production of railway wheels for high-speed railway transport at the VMZ. In 2012, the company began installation of new equipment for the production of up to 10 thousand wheels per year. In the total production volume of VMZ wheels, this amount is about 1.5%. At the same time, VMZ calls the line the only one in the world that includes all stages of production, and with its launch it plans to cover all the needs for such wheels of the Russian market ^[4] .

In the past few years, significant investment projects have been implemented at VSW. These are reconstruction of pipe mills in the second and third pipe workshops, modernization of the finishing lines of the third and fifth workshops, reconstruction of the first line of anticorrosive coating of large diameter pipes - these and other projects promise to strengthen VSW's market position in the pipe and railway wheels market by expanding the assortment and improving quality manufactured products.

The main products of VMZ are railway wheels and steel pipes.

Railway products

• solid-rolled wheels with increased hardness of the rim and curved disk shape for new-generation freight cars,
• high-quality solid-rolled wheels for passenger cars,
• solid wheels made of bainitic steel for cars,
• rolled wheel centers for traction rolling stock. [2]

Pipe products

• pipes for gas and oil pipelines,
• oil and gas pipes and general purpose pipes
• casing pipes with various types of threads,
• water and gas pipes and general purpose,
• profile pipes. [3]

VSW products meet international and domestic quality standards.

Vyksa Steel Plant produced pipes for such large projects as the Baltic Pipeline System (BPS), Sakhalin-1, Sakhalin-2, the North European Gas Pipeline (NEGP) and the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline. In 2007, OMK became the only Russian company to win a tender for the supply of VMZ pipes for the underwater section of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which runs along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. And in 2011, the contract for the supply of pipes for the second phase of the Nord Stream pipeline was completed.

In addition, in recent years, VSW has been involved in the supply of large-diameter pipes for the construction of the Central Asia-China, Dzhubga-Lazarevskoye-Sochi, Baidaratskaya Bay and Bovanenkovo-Ukhta gas trunklines.

In 2013, Vyksa metallurgists produced and delivered 115 thousand tons of large-diameter pipes made from their own sheet metal produced at the ISS-5000 for the construction of the third stage of the Central Asia-China gas pipeline.

In January 2014, OMK won a tender for the supply of large diameter pipes for the construction of the first branch of the offshore section of the South Stream gas pipeline. In March 2014, the company received the right to supply pipes for the second branch of the pipeline. As a result, VSW will produce over 600 km of pipes for the first and second trunk lines, or one third of the total required volume - the largest share among all project participants.

In 2015, construction began on a casing finishing center ^[5] .

In the spring of 2016, it became known that the United Metallurgical Company and the Nord Stream 2 AG consortium signed an agreement to supply large-diameter pipes for the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. For two lines, with a total length of 2.5 thousand km, the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant will manufacture and ship 745 km of pipes. This is the largest one-time pipe contract in the history of OMK and VMZ. Half of the pipes for the project will be made of sheet metal of own production of VMZ. Pipe deliveries for the Nord Stream 2 project began in the fall of 2016.

In 2011, the VSW Metallurgical Complex Stan-5000 project received several prestigious national awards at once, including the title Project of the Year in Russian metallurgy at the MetallExpo exhibition. The integrated metallurgical company with the project MKS-5000 won the Company of the Year contest in the Metallurgy category of RBC.

In December 2012, three representatives of the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant were awarded the Government Prize in the field of science and technology for a project for the development of steels, manufacturing technology, the implementation of a set of innovative projects and the development of mass production of railway wheels with increased operational resistance for new generation wagons. In addition to OMK and VMZ, Russian Railways, FSUE TsNIIchermet named after IP Bardin, and VNIIZhT participated in the project.

In 2013, VSW was awarded the Gold Medal of the Metal Expo 2013 exhibition for the development of the production of sheet metal and steel electric-welded straight-seam pipes with an outer and inner polyethylene smooth coating ^[6] . The company won the competition “Organization of high social efficiency” in the category “Social Responsibility of Business”. For active support of sports, the enterprise was rewarded with an award from the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

For high production performance in 2015, the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant was awarded the Honorary Standard of the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. Since 1999, the VMZ team has been awarded this award nine times (based on the results of 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2011).

In 2016, the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant became the laureate of the investment project of the year competition of the Ministry of Investment Policy, Land and Property Relations of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. The company won the nomination "The best investment project in the field of industrial production." VSW was awarded an award in connection with the successful completion in 2015 of three investment projects aimed at developing the production of steel pipes and rolled products.

The Museum of History of the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant is located in the building of the Batashev-Shepelev homestead, the founders and owners of the Vyksa factories. The manor house is a monument of federal significance. In 2006, it was closed for restoration. Part of the restoration work was completed in the summer of 2011, thanks to which the opening of the first exhibition halls became possible in December of that year.

The restoration project of the Batashev-Shepelev estate complex was awarded several significant awards. In May 2013, the United Metallurgical Company became the laureate of the VIII National Cultural Heritage Award. In April 2014, VSW was recognized as the winner of the contest “Innovations of the region-2013” ​​in the nomination “Social Innovation” for the revival of the architectural monument.

Conventionally, the museum-estate can be divided into 4 exhibition zones:

The 1st floor of the museum is a classic local history zone, here are located the halls associated with the history of land development, the beginning of industrial development and the life of the population. These are “Vyksa working”, “Archeology”, “Crafts and crafts”, “Test by revolution”, “Traditions of culture in the interior of centuries”.

In addition, on the ground floor of the monument there is also a museum pedagogy zone. The classroom and library are equipped with modern multimedia exhibiting facilities. There are interactive whiteboards, touchscreen kiosks, a multimedia table with themed thematic games.

The 2nd floor of the museum is a historical interior zone, many of whose exhibits are related to the life of real people who lived at different times in the estate. In addition, there are three exhibition halls intended for temporary exhibitions. After the restoration of the Batashev-Shepelev estate, exhibitions from private collections, original projects, traveling exhibitions of regional and federal museums are held here.

The exposition “Dedicated to the Great Victory ...” occupies a special place in the museum. The theme of World War II is still relevant. And Vyksa museum workers offered the audience a new format for understanding history through modern audiovisual means and historical installations.

On the 3rd floor, where the late outbuildings are located, the exposition "Metallurgy and Time" is operating. It was formed together with the National University of Science and Technology “MISiS” .

Currently, over 25 thousand exhibits are collected in the museum funds.

Музей истории ВМЗ приобрел статус заводского в январе 1992 года. В 1995 году он был принят в Ассоциацию музеев России. К декабрю 1997 года экспозиции музея занимали более двадцати залов, в которых были представлены предметы изобразительного искусства, образцы чугунного и художественного литья, экспозиции, рассказывающие об истории завода и города.

Памятники индустриальной архитектуры

На Выксунском металлургическом заводе находятся уникальные памятники промышленной архитектуры и технического искусства, построенные великим русским инженером, учёным и почётным академиком Владимиром Григорьевичем Шуховым в конце XIX века. Это цех с первыми в мире парусообразными стальными сетчатыми оболочками покрытия двоякой кривизны и одна из первых в мире гиперболоидных конструкций — стальная ажурная сетчатая гиперболоидная башня . Парусообразные перекрытия цеха — единственные сохранившиеся в России стальные сетчатые перекрытия-оболочки из более тридцати, возведённых по проектам В. Г. Шухова.

• 2015 — по настоящее время — Барыков Александр Михайлович
• 2012 —2015 — Филиппов Сергей Викторович
• 2011 — 2012 — Махров Дмитрий Вячеславович ^[7]
• 2006 — 2011 — Кочетков Владимир Викторович ^{[7] [8]}
• 2002 — 2006 — Исайкин Александр Николаевич ^[8]
• 2002 — Соколов Сергей Витальевич
• 1999—2002 — Анисимов Валерий Павлович
• 1997—1999 — Сидоров Игорь Петрович
• 1990—1996 — Конышев Аркадий Андреевич
• 1986—1990 — Рябов Владимир Федорович
• 1977 — 1986 — Вавилин Александр Сергеевич ^[9]
• 1961—1977 — Луговских Петр Михайлович
• 1947—1961 — Шарапов Алексей Иванович
• 1940—1947 — Соболев Николай Трофимович
• 1937 — 1940 — Белобров Иван Федорович ^[10]
• 1934—1937 — Попов Аркадий Ильич
• 1933 — Преображенский С. П.
• 1932—1933 — Киричков Леонтий Федорович
• 1928—1932 — Мазурин Владимир Николаевич
• 1926—1928 — Устинов Василий Иванович
• 1922—1926 — Данилов Николай Дмитриевич
• 1922 — Вавилов Петр Михайлович
• 1921—1922 — Курицын Василий Михайлович

•   В 1957 году в связи с 200-летием завод награждён орденом Ленина ^[11] .

• Glorious history: essays on the history of the Vyksa Order of Lenin Metallurgical Plant, 1757-1967 . / Collective of authors. - Gorky: Volga-Vyatka Book Publishing House, 1967. - 423 p.

• Preface (A. I. Zheltysheva) 5
• Chapter 1. Foundation of factories. Under the yoke of serfdom (G. M. Sorokin) 7
• Chapter 2. Vyksa in the period of industrial capitalism (TP Bulavina) Pp. 44
• Chapter 3. At the turn of two centuries (A. V. Sedov) 80
• Chapter 4. For the victory of the socialist revolution (A. A. Yakovlev) Стр. 129
• Chapter 5. The fight against internal and external counter-revolution (A. I. Zheltysheva) Pp. 172

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