The Partnership of the St. Petersburg (in 1914-1918 Petrograd) car building plant operated from 1893 (the Charter was Higher approved on July 3, 1893) to 1918. On April 25, 1917 , the Ministry of Trade and Industry of the Provisional Government was allowed to increase the fixed capital of the Partnership of the Petrograd the car-building plant from 11250000 rubles to 25250000 rubles through the issuance of 140,000 additional shares in the amount of 14000000 nominal rubles. [3]
The partnership was located outside the Moscow outpost, on the southern border of the then capital of the Russian Empire , between the branch of the Warsaw Railway and the Moscow (formerly Zabalkansky) avenue not far from the Triumphal Gate and initially carried out profitable military orders for pontoon bridges, horse-drawn wagons, camping kitchens, etc. . [four]
The rise of Russian industry at the turn of the XIX - XX centuries. caused the rapid growth of railway construction. Soon, steam locomotives and wagons became the main products of the enterprise. [5] The first railway car of the St. Petersburg Car-Building Plant was already manufactured in 1898. [6]
Here is what is indicated in the background information on this enterprise of the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg. (Fund R-1373):
By the Decree of the Northern Region SNH of August 20, 1918 , the Partnership of the St. Petersburg Carriage Building Plant, built in 1874 by D. Smith as a carpentry factory, after the fire of 1880 , restored as a mill of mechanical products (May 15, 1884 sold to Saxon Fyodor Retschke, who was renamed popular rumor Rechkina, hence the generally accepted pre-revolutionary name - Rechkina factory), in 1892 Euler and Pastor bought the plant and founded on its basis the Euler and Joiner, Mechanical and Foundry Partnership Pastor ”, which is subsequently renamed the aforementioned Partnership, is nationalized and transferred to the board of Petrotyazh. [7]
In 1922 , the production of the Partnership of the St. Petersburg Car-Building Plant was named after the revolutionary I.E. Yegorov , in the early 1990s the I.E. Yegorov distillery was privatized and transformed into CJSC Vagonmash .