Spetstyazhavtotrа́ns ( rus, Спецтяжавтотранс, p=spʲɪt͡stʲɪʐəftɐˈtrans) is a Russian company specializing in the shipment of
oversized cargo. The group of companies provides
engineering services to the oil, gas, chemical, energy and other industries.
History
Timeline
*1974 – Establishment of a committee to prepare proposals for the transportation of oversize energy and industrial equipment
*24 November 1976 – State Committee on Science and Technology resolution "On ensuring the transportation of large-sized and heavy energy and other industrial equipment and the development of related research"
*1978 – Resolution 262 of the
Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union "Measures to improve the organization of transportation of large and heavy cargo"
*1978 - Establishment of Spetstyazhavtotrans, a specialized research and production association (SRPA)
*1978-1988 – Creation of a classification system for the shipment of oversized cargoes of a large mass (OCLM) and methods of calculating the cost-effectiveness of OCLM transportation
*1978 – Shipment by Minrechflot vessels began
*1981 – Transportation security agreement for oversize nuclear-power equipment in
CMEA countries
*1982 – Development program for OCLM transportation by specialized vehicles from 1981 to 2000 approved
*1982-1983 – Research on inland highways from the
Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the List of lakes by area, world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the broad s ...
*1985 – The maritime sector joined the transport of oversize cargo by vehicles and river transport
*1986 – First oversize transport by air (
Аn-124 "Ruslan" airplanes)
*1988 – Volume of oversize cargo increased to 1,250,000 tons from 353,000 tons in 1981
['' Diamidov А. S.'' Development of transportation of oversized cargoes of a large mass // Outcome of science and tech. VINITI. Ser. The interaction of different types of transport and container shipment. – 1992. – 16. – p. 1-164.]
*15 April 1991 – Council of Ministers of the
RSFSR
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
resolution 10 mandating the RSFSR Ministry of Transport to privatize Spetstyazhavtotrans, SRPA and the State Scientific and Research Institute of Road Transport (SSRIRT) by converting them into joint-stock companies
*1992 - Creation of the IPS Project, an automated information-retrieval system for optimal transport and technological solutions
*2004 – New owners, with shareholders appointing new management
*2006 – Establishment of the Spetstyazhavtotrans
corporate group
*2006 – Establishment of Polynom to design oil and gas facilities
*2007 – Establishment of EDO "Spetstyazhproekt"
*2008 – Establishment of NefteGazEnergoStroy Engineering (NGES Engineering)
*2012 - Polynom won the ninth all-Russian competition for the best design and survey organization
Events
The 1970s were years of construction in the USSR, with the building of industrial and energy complexes in the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
began:
Atommash, Kureiskaya,
Sayano-Shushenskaya,
Sakhalin and other HPP, NPP, oil and gas pipelines in
Western Siberia and the first petrochemical plants. Each required the transport of heavy cargo which could not be delivered in parts.
For its study in 1974, the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR created a temporary scientific and technical committee to prepare proposals for transporting oversized cargoes of a large mass (OCLM). Its proposals were reflected in the State Committee resolutions "On ensuring the transportation of large-sized and heavy energy and other industrial equipment and the development of related research and development work" and "Guidelines for the research and design work to ensure the transportation of the energy and other industrial equipment", dated 24 November 1976. These documents outlined the main problems of research and development work and measures to satisfy the needs of the national economy for equipment transportation, including the search for new technical and logistical solutions.
In May 1976, a Spetstyazhavtotrans convoy was established in
Gorky.
On 6 April 1978 Resolution 262 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, "On measures to improve the organization of transportation of large-sized and heavy cargoes",
was made. Among the series of measures, the establishment of the specialized research and production association (SRPA) Spetstyazhavtotrans was mandated.
By the early 1990s Spetstyazhavtotrans was a research and production group accounting, according to some estimates, for over 60 percent of oversize transport in the country. It consisted of five large trucking companies in
Novgorod
Veliky Novgorod ( rus, links=no, Великий Новгород, t=Great Newtown, p=vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj ˈnovɡərət), also known as just Novgorod (), is the largest city and administrative centre of Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is one of the ol ...
,
Leningrad,
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
and
Astrakhan, with branches in other cities. Bases were established in
Siberia, where there was a great need for transport, in cities which included
Surgut
Surgut ( rus, Сургу́т, p=sʊrˈgut; Khanty: Сәрханӆ, ''Sərhanł'') is a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the Ob River near its junction with the Irtysh River. It is one of the few cities in Russia to be lar ...
,
Noyabrsk and
Nizhnevartovsk.
The Spetstyazhavtotrans SRPA created a unified system for transporting oversize cargo and engineering services.
Significant contributions were made by A. M. Lyovushkin, L. Y. Byzer, V. S. Molyarchuk, V. N. Androsyuk, A. G. Alexandrov, A. S. Diamidov, N. A. Troitskaya, V. A. Alexandrov, V. P. Safronov, L. M. Moshek, A. A. Lvov, A. Ya. Kogan, P. A. Shpolyansky, R. A. Atanasyan and many others.
Spetstyazhproekt was re-created, and in 2008 NefteGazEnergoStroy Engineering (NGES Engineering LLC) was added to the corporate group which included Polynom LLC. A new production and scientific structure, providing engineering support for transportation and facility design for the chemical and petrochemical industries, was forming.
Notable transports
*1977 – Reactor vessel and steam generators for the VVEP-1000 power-generating unit from
Izhorsk Engineering Plant to
Novovoronezh NPP
*1978 – Two
gas turbines for polyethylene production, more than 18.2 m in length with a diameter of 4.5 to 7.6 m and weighing 210 tons each, from
John Brown & Company to the Prikumsky plastics factory (now Stavrolen) in
Budennovsk
*1979 -
Turbo generator stator
The stator is the stationary part of a rotary system, found in electric generators, electric motors, sirens, mud motors or biological rotors. Energy flows through a stator to or from the rotating component of the system. In an electric mot ...
weighing 490 tons from
Electrosila to the
Kostroma Power Station
The Kostroma Power Station (Kostromskaya GRES) is a gas-fired power station near Volgorechensk in Russia. The station consists of eight 300 MW units and a single 1,200 MW unit. Of which, the 1,200MW unit is the world's largest gas-fire ...
*1979 – Nine pieces of equipment for
methanol
Methanol (also called methyl alcohol and wood spirit, amongst other names) is an organic chemical and the simplest aliphatic alcohol, with the formula C H3 O H (a methyl group linked to a hydroxyl group, often abbreviated as MeOH). It is a ...
production, with a maximum diameter of 6 m, length of 33 m and weight of 220 tons, to the Gubahinsky chemical plant
*1981 –
Hydrometeorological equipment, 26.5 m long, 6.5 m wide, 7.3 m high and weighing 110 tons, to the Kyrgyz hydrometeorology office
*1980s – Nine
distillation columns, with diameters up to 5.5 m, lengths over 90 m, weighing up to 700 tons, from
Petrozavodsk and
Dzerzhinsk to
Tobolsk
*1980s - Steam generator weighing 340 tons to the
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
*1982 – Concrete floating workshop 67.5 m long, 13.52 m wide and weighing 1300 tons from
Bourgas,
Bulgaria
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to
Havana
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*1983 - Distillation column, weighing 335.2 tons with a diameter of 5 m and 62 m long, from the Dzerzhinskhimmash plant in
Kirishi
Kirishi (russian: Ки́риши, ) is a town and the administrative center of Kirishsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volkhov River, southeast of St. Petersburg. Population:
It was previously ...
*1986 – Four ammonia-production units, up to 4 m in diameter and weighing up to 500 tons, from Bulgaria to a chemical plant in Dimitrovgrad
*1987 - TVR-120-2 generator stator and TDTS=125000/1100 transformer weighing 126 and 114 tons, respectively, to
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
*2007 – Equipment for the
Nizhnekamskneftekhim
Nizhnekamskneftekhim (russian: Нижнекамскнефтехим), also known as NKNK, is a large petrochemical company and largest specialized company in Europe headquartered in the city of Nizhnekamsk, Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Rus ...
polyethylene plant (320 packages, totaling more than 685 tons)
*2008 – Two reactors (R-1201 – about 30 m long and 115 tons, and R-1202 – over 38 m and 310 tons) to the site of the Nizhnekamskneftekhim
polyolefin
A polyolefin is a type of polymer with the general formula (CH2CHR)n where R is an alkyl group. They are usually derived from a small set of simple olefins ( alkenes). Dominant in a commercial sense are polyethylene and polypropylene. More spe ...
plant
*2009 – Two 800-ton reactors from
Izhorskiye Zavody to Lukoil-NORSI
*2012 – Petrochemical equipment (weighing up to 380 tons, 67 m long and up to 7.5 m in diameter) from Energomash-
Atommash in
Volgodonsk to TANECO in
Nizhnekamsk
*2010-2013 – Turbine wheels and heavy equipment to the
RusHydro Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro power plant
*2011-2014 – Six reactors, weighing up to 1,300 tons, to the
Rosneft
PJSC Rosneft Oil Company ( stylized as ROSNEFT) is a Russian Vertical integration, integrated energy company headquartered in Moscow. Rosneft specializes in the exploration, Extraction of petroleum, extraction, production, refining, Petroleum t ...
Tuapse oil terminal
*2013-2014 – Four
hydrofracking
Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of bedrock formations by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "frac ...
reactors, weighing up to 1,306 tons, to the Rosneft Achinsk refinery
Record
In 2013, Spetstyazhavtotrans set a world record for road transportation of heavy cargo (a
hydrocracking
In petrochemistry, petroleum geology and organic chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules such as kerogens or long-chain hydrocarbons are broken down into simpler molecules such as light hydrocarbons, by the breaking of ...
reactor) 203 kilometers from Kubekovo in
Krasnoyarsk Krai to the
Achinsk refinery
References
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Transport companies of Russia
Companies based in Moscow
Transport companies established in 1978
1978 establishments in the Soviet Union
Service companies of the Soviet Union