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Luhanskteplovoz ( or Luhansk Locomotive Works), earlier known as Voroshilovgrad Locomotive Works is a large industrial company in Luhansk, Ukraine, manufacturing locomotives, multiple unit trains (both electric and diesel) as well as other heavy equipment. Due to the war in Donbas it has not been operating since March 2015. According to media reports, by late 2015 the works were looted and completely inoperational.
The company was founded in 1896 as Russische Maschinenbaugesellschaft Hartmann in Lugansk (Russian Engineering Company Hartmann in Luhansk) and renamed October Revolution Locomotive Factory in November 1922. Maurice Railroad Equipment Industry List (MREIL) List of European locomotive and rolling stock manufacturers collated by Maurice Jansen, via railfaneurope.net
In the second half of the twentieth century the plant produced thousands of the well known 'M62 locomotive' and DR Class 130 (TE109) (" ludmillas") diesel electric locomotives for eastern European Soviet Bloc countries.
During the second world war work switched to military production, the plant being evacuated twice in the course of the war. By 1945 locomotive production has resumed with ( CO)Named after Grigol (Sergo) Orjonikidze ( Серго Орджоникидзе) In 1956 steam locomotive production ceased; over 12,000 steam locomotives having been produced, and the plant was converted to the production of locomotives powered by diesel engines by 1957 Initially diesel machines using hydraulic transmissions , , , (ТГ100, ТГ102, ТГ105, ТГ106)Cyrillic TГ : "T" indicates Тепловоз "Diesel-locomotive", "Г" гидропередачей - "hydraulic transmission" were produced, though eventually electrical (DC) transmissions became the norm on Russian railways, such as mainline locomotive type ( 2ТЭ10Л)Cyrillic TЭ : "T" indicates Тепловоз "Diesel-locomotive" , "E" Электричество - "electricity" and its variants, which started production at Luhansk in 1962, eventually more than 12,000 units had been produced. In 1965 the first M62 locomotive was produced at the plant.
In 1967 the TE109 ( ТЭ109) locomotive was created; using an AC/DC electrical transmission,Electricity produced as alternating current (AC) by an alternator, and then rectifier to direct current (DC) to supply DC motors which formed the basis for a successful series of locomotives, better known in western Europe by the standard gauge (1435mm) version : DR Class 130 and variants. Later products included the high powered TE121 ( 2ТЭ121) and variants introduced 1977, and working experiments in AC traction TE120 and 2TE127 ( ТЭ120 and 2ТЭ127), and liquified gas powered locos 2TE10G and 2TE116GThe prefix "2" indicates two units permanently coupled, G ( Г) indicates 'gas' ( Газ) ( 2ТЭ10Г and 2ТЭ116Г) - the latter based on the 2TE116 diesel.
In the late 1970s the plant was expanded and a record of over 100 locomotive units produced per month was achieved in the 1980s. Later in the 1990s mining machinery and urban transit rolling stock became part of the factories portfolio. With the breakup of the Soviet union the plant became the property of the Ukrainian state and in 1995 the state holding company Luhanskteplovoz was created.
In the 90s, the factory started producing trams. None of its models were widely successful, with 4 LT-5 built for Moscow and none in service, around 20 LT-10 trams in various cities. The unused serial numbers likely represent incomplete bodies. However, the plant is notable for building the first low-floor tram car in Ukraine, the LT-10A.
The then president Viktor Yushchenko believed that the Ukrainian people had been defrauded, with the business being sold for a fraction of its true worth. Excerpt from April 12 press conference, Responsibility. Lawfulness. People's Choice section: PRIVATIZATION ISSUES, 12/4/2007, Press office of President Victor Yushchenko, president.gov.ua The then prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko also called for a review of the privatisation of Luhanskteplovoz Yushchenko orders to check privatization of Luhanskteplovoz ukrainianjournal.com along with two other enterprises Dniproenergo and Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant bne businessneweurope January 21, 2008, page 7 www.businessneweurope.eu and BYuT MPs petitioned the Prosecutor General's Office for criminal proceedings to take place concerning alleged criminal activity by the heads of the State Property Fund. MPs from BYuT addressed Prosecutor General's Office with request to launch criminal proceedings into illegal privatization of OJSC Luhanskteplovoz 18-01-2008 nrcu.gov.ua
The sale was ruled illegal in 2008. SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST PRIVATIZATION OF "LUHANSKTEPLOVOZ" ukrinform.ua From uncertainty over the eventual status of Luhansteplovoz is said to have prevented the then owners Transmashholding from making further investments in the plant. Luhanskteplovoz cuts jobs 13/4/2009 ufc-capital.com Since the ruling the decision has been challenged by the State Property fund. National News Service of Ukraine, Query: LUHANSKTEPLOVOZ ukrinform.ua
It was expected that the company would be attempted to be re-privatised included in the 2008 privatisation scheme, but instead the auction process started March 2010. Again analysts stated the starting price set by the Ukrainian government was once again surprisingly low at $50 million; while the company's stock market value was estimated at $127 million.
Due to the war in Donbas it became difficult to deliver components from Germany and the United States to the Luhansk plant by February 2015. Hence in March 2015 the plant stopped working. According to media reports, by late 2015 it was looted and completely inoperational. According to the Luhansk People's Republic representatives the looters had used fake contracts to carry out the illegal dismantling and removal of plant equipment. According to the REGNUM News Agency Luhanskteplovoz owners, the Russian company Transmashholding, stopped production in 2016. Although it had overcome delivery problems because Luhanskteplovoz had become "completely unified with a similar plant in Bryansk". REGNUM claims production was halted in 2016 because Transmashholding was afraid international sanctions (in place since 2014 in response to the escalating War in Donbas) could jeopardize its cooperation with Siemens.
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After the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the capture of Luhansk by the Luhansk People's Republic, Luhanskteplovoz was re-registered in the city of Sievierodonetsk.
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