Krasnoye Sormovo Factory No. 112

112 named after Andrei Zhdanov (Russian: Судостроительное предприятие "Кра́сное Со́рмово" имени А. А. Жданова) is one of the oldest shipbuilding factories in Russia, located in the Sormovsky City District of Nizhny Novgorod (formerly called Gorky).The shipyard was established in 1849 by companies Nizhny Novgorod Machine Factory (Нижегородская машинная фабрика) and Volga Steam Navigation (Волжское пароходство).In 1920, the factory remanufactured fourteen burnt-out French Renault FT tanks for the Red Army, the Russkiy Renos, and assembled a single new copy, named 'Freedom Fighter Lenin'.They developed an automated process of pouring and cutting slabs with the use of radioisotope technology, produced the first Soviet hydrofoils (Raketa), designed.Currently, this company is in charge of a cruise ship named after Mustai Karim, a Bashkir Soviet poet, writer and playwright.
A sampling of wartime products of Krasnoye Sormovo and other Nizhny Novgorod plants is on display in Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
O d steam loco at Sormovo Factory
A Raketa hydrofoil on the Volga
ShipbuildingNizhny NovgorodRussiaSubmarineshydrofoilstugboatstankersNet incomeParentUnited Shipbuilding CorporationAndrei ZhdanovRussianSormovsky City Districtsteamersschoonersdredgeropen hearth furnacesteam enginessteam locomotivesdiesel enginespontoonsprojectilesOd steam locopaddle steamersKrauss Lokomotive Works1,524 mm900 mm750 mmKolomna Locomotive WorksGerman-Soviet WarRussian Civil Wararmored trainsRenault FTRed ArmyRusskiy RenosradioisotopeRaketadieselhovercraftrailroad ferriesKrasnovodskcruise shipMustai KarimOrders of LeninOrder of the October RevolutionOrder of the Patriotic WarOrder of the Red Banner of LabourList of Russian steam locomotive classesSoviet tank factoriesBaltic SeaAdmiralty ShipyardsAlmaz Design BureauArctech Helsinki ShipyardBaltic ShipyardKronstadt Marine PlantMalakhit Marine Engineering BureauRubin Design BureauSevernaya VerfSevernoye Design BureauSredne-Nevskiy ShipyardVyborg ShipyardYantar ShipyardWhite Sea10 ShipyardKrasnaya KuznitsaSevmashPacific OceanAmur Shipbuilding PlantKrasnoye Sormovo ShipyardSevastopol ShipyardLazurit Design BureauSaint PetersburgAdmiralty WorksBaltic WorksOkhta shipyardIzhora Shipyard (Kolpino)Nevskiy ShipyardNew Admiralty ShipyardParokhodniy ShipyardKronshtadtSt. Petersburg Metal WorksPutilov ShipyardGrand Duchy of FinlandW:m Crichton & C:oSandvikens Skeppsdocka och Mekaniska VerkstadHelsingforsBaltic GovernoratesNobel & LessnerBlack SeaNikolayevAdmiralty/RussudAssociated Nikolayev (Naval) ShipyardSevastopolAdmiralty