Workers of Ural Locomotives with Vladimir Putin

Ural Locomotives () is a railway engineering company. It was initially formed as a joint venture between

Sinara Transport Machines Sinara Transport Machines () is a Russian transportation vehicle manufacturing and engineering company based in Yekaterinburg. The company was established in 2007 as a division of the Sinara Group. Subsidiaries The division incorporates the foll ...

and

Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational technology conglomerate. It is focused on industrial automation, building automation, rail transport and health technology. Siemens is the largest engineering company in Europe, and holds the positi ...

in 2010. Following the

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, Siemens exited Russia in May 2022, with Sinara Group taking full control a month later. The manufacturing facilities are based at the Ural Railway Engineering Plant in

Verkhnyaya Pyshma Verkhnyaya Pyshma () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located north of Yekaterinburg. Population: History It was founded in 1660 as the village (''village#Russia, selo'') of Pyshminskoye, whic ...

, which was incorporated into the Sinara Group in 2004. In October 2004, the plant began collaboration with RZD with the aim of production of electric freight locomotives.

History

The Ural Railway Engineering Plant was formed to locate a DC electric freight locomotive production site within Russian territory; formerly, during the

Soviet era The history of the Soviet Union (USSR) (1922–91) began with the ideals of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and ended in dissolution amidst economic collapse and political disintegration. Established in 1922 following the Russian Civil War, ...

DC electric locomotive production in the USSR had been located in

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in Georgia. Initially the plant was involved in the upgrading of electric locomotives of type VL11 ''(ВЛ11)'', by 2006 the plant had produced the first unit of electric locomotive 2ES6 ''(2ЭС6)'', which was certified for use by 2008. By 2009 production capacity for up to 60 twin-unit locomotives per year had been installed. In 2010 a joint venture with

(49% Siemens holding) named ''ООО "Уральские локомотивы"'' (Ural Locomotives) was formed to produce electric freight locomotives utilising asynchronous traction. The Sinara Group production facilities in Russia were to be based at the factory in

. The joint venture included a technology transfer agreement, with electrical traction components manufactured at Siemens' St. Petersburg plant "''Сименс Электропривод''". The locomotive produced as a result of the venture were the

2ES10 The 2ES10 is a twin section electric locomotive manufactured from 2010 by Ural Locomotives. RZD ordered 221 units in 2010. Ukrainian Railways ordered 50 units in 2013. These units are primarily used to pull freight trains. History and design Th ...

''(2ЭС10)'' type. The first 2ES10 unit was produced in early 2011. Following the exit of Siemens from Russia in May 2022, Siemens Mobility filed a lawsuit claiming Ural Locomotives had not paid them 799 million rubles for equipment supplied under a 2018 contract, in addition to penalty charges. An order for 41 trainsets was placed with Ural Locomotives, following a similar order for 2 pre-series trains, in September 2024, for service on the Moscow-Saint Petersburg high speed railway. File:2ES6-010-Izynsky-Bugotak.jpg, 2ES6 "Sinara" (2006-current)- eight-axle two-piece main cargo electric locomotive DC commutator motors. File:2ЭС10-001 "Granit" electric locomotive.jpg, 2ES10 "Granit" (2010-current)- eight-axle articulated trucks DC electric locomotives with asynchronous traction drive. Design developed by the Department of Research and Development, Ural Locomotives and

. File:2ES7-024 with freight train.jpg, 2ES7 series AC mainline electric locomotives (2016-current), developed by Siemens and Ural Locomotives File:ES2G-050.jpg,

Lastochka The ''Lastochka'' () is a German/Russian commuter intercity electric multiple unit train used across multiple Russian cities, based on the Siemens Desiro design and manufactured by Siemens and Ural Locomotives. History In 2009, Russian Rai ...

(2013-current) electric multiple units developed by Siemens and Ural Locomotives

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Locomotive manufacturers of Russia Russian brands Sinara Group Siemens Companies based in Sverdlovsk Oblast