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[POST]Industrial Urals: E-Day. Ekaterinburg's Day of the City [POST]Industrial Urals: Verkhnyaya Pyshma. A story in the making

[POST]Industrial Urals: Shadrinsk. A town around a plant

Founded in the 17th century, Shadrinsk is a town in Kurgan Oblast. By 1686 the free-peasant settlement of Shadrinsk was already the largest in Western Siberia.
By Sergey Poteryaev, special to RBTH
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Founded in the 17th century, Shadrinsk is a town in Kurgan Oblast. By 1686 the free-peasant settlement of Shadrinsk was already the largest in Western Siberia.
Sergey Poteryaev

Sergey Poteryaev

The town has several large factories that produce automobile units, electrodes, telephones and other equipment.

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Sergey Poteryaev

Shadrinsk Auto Aggregate Plant (JSC SAAP) is one of the largest manufacturers of automobile units. Since 1999 it has been part of Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC).
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Sergey Poteryaev

JSC SAAP is the town’s main enterprise and has a socially responsible business policy. This includes taking care of veterans, assisting the educational and professional development of young people, and other social programs.

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The territory around the plants is usually wasteland, separated from the industrial area by a fence.
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Sergey Poteryaev

People are a rare sight. Those you might meet are mainly factory workers who prefer not to use the main entrance or passers-by.

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Sergey Poteryaev

During World War II, most of the plants in the European part of the Soviet Union were moved to the Urals.
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This revived all branches of industry in the Urals; nowadays some companies are having difficulties modernizing their production facilities.

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The sign says that the factory was founded in 1941 on the basis of automobile workshops evacuated from Moscow, under the direction of Ivan Likhachev.
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Sergey Poteryaev

Ivan Likhachev (1896-1956) was a great statesman and industrialist. He headed the Moscow Automobile Plant (now the Likhachev Plant).

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Initially the plant was named after Joseph Stalin (the Joseph Stalin Plant), and later the Joseph Stalin Shadrinsk Auto Aggregate Plant.
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Sergey Poteryaev

Interesting fact: Shadrinsk is the birthplace of renowned Soviet painter and monument sculptor Ivan Shadr.

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Shadrinsk has a train station with services to Yekaterinburg and Kurgan, as well as an interurban bus station.
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Sergey Poteryaev

In 1943 Shadrinsk left Chelyabinsk Region to become part of Kurgan Region.

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Sergey Poteryaev

The text on the building reads: “Scientific and technological progress is the key to raising the level of production”
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As of 2014 Shadrinsk’s population is 77,000.

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December 18, 2014
Tags: regions, ussr, urals, in pictures

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