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HISTORY HISTORY
History of marine diesel engine building at Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the

Council of Ministers with a request to allocate
BMZ currency to buy a license from a foreign company.
In those years, when almost the main Soviet
140 years of BMZ history: slogan was the call to ''catch up and overtake''
a long road from Bryansk the West in the production of everything and
to the oceans everyone, by all means, such a decision might
seem unpatriotic to someone. But economic

July 20, 2013 marks the expediency then prevailed over ideology. There
140th anniversary of the founding was no time for the manifestation of ''patriotism'';
of one of the largest industrial merchant ships had to be equipped with engines
enterprises in Russia - the Bryansk as soon as possible. In the end, after lengthy
Machine-Building Plant. Almost negotiations with a number of foreign firms,
from the very beginning of its in January 1959 a contract was signed with
existence, the activities of the the Danish firm Burmeister and Vine on the
plant were aimed at the production production of diesel engines at BMZ for ships with
of railway transport. But there was an unlimited navigation area. The service life of
a milestone in its history that connected land Bryansk with water spaces. the engines of this company without the need for
Already two years after the founding of the enterprise, the production of bridges that any major repairs reached 16 years.
connected the banks of such rivers as the Dnieper, Amu Darya, Oka, Amur, Terek was started. While negotiations were under way to
Bridge structures were supplied for the Siberian, Chinese, North Donetsk railways. In 1909, in purchase a license, BMZ was retraining personnel Marine engine assembly
the report of the board to the general meeting of shareholders, it was noted that ''in the council for the production of diesel engines. Two months after the signing of the contract, technical
of bridge-building plants, the Bryansk plant has the largest share''. documentation in English from the licensor company began to arrive. It was necessary not only
Eight battleships were built from Bryansk steel, including the famous Potemkin, four to translate it into Russian, but also to adjust the European standards of materials to the Soviet
cruisers and other ships of the Black Sea Fleet. Few people know that at the end of the 19th GOST.
century, barges and steamers were produced at the Bryansk plant. On one of them «Grace» the For the installation of marine engines, it was necessary to build a workshop, since assembly
prince and princess Tenishevs made their honeymoon trip from Bezhitsa to Kiev. The «sea» era operations of this scale could not be performed in any of the hulls existing at the plant. On May
of the plant began in the 50s of the XX century, when the production of marine diesel engines 4, 1959, a diesel building with an area of 52 thousand square meters was laid down at BMZ, in
was organized at BMZ. July of the same year, a diesel department was organized. Together with the license, a sample
of the engine was purchased, on which the workers of the plant trained in assembling and
''Do you remember how it all began…'' disassembling the machine. On September 19, 1961, factory tests of the first ship engine DB-1
The appearance of the first diesel engine was preceded by a large five-year preparatory (Diesel Bryansk) with a capacity of 8750 hp were completed. The era of diesel engine building
work. By the mid-1950s, the restoration of the national economy destroyed during the Great began at the Bryansk Machine-Building Plant.
Patriotic War was coming to an end. But the situation with sea merchant ships remained critical.
The fact is that during the war they were used as trawl, landing and transport vehicles. The ''Bezhitsa'' on the ocean
merchant fleet suffered significant losses, and the surviving ships are morally and technically
obsolete. New large ships were not built due to the lack of powerful engines. In October 1956, The first marine engine, manufactured at
the first deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers I. F. Tevosyan signed a government BMZ, was installed on the prototype of a new type
decree on the organization at BMZ of the production of low-speed marine diesel engines in the of dry cargo. The ship was named ''Bezhitsa'', in
areas occupied by turbine construction. But this task was not easy. honor of the industrial region that gave the ship
Since the beginning of 1957, the designers of the Bryansk plant were sent on business its mechanical ''heart''.
trips to shipping companies, naval design bureaus, research institutes to search for technical A distinctive feature of the vessels of the
documentation that would somehow help new series was the maximum opening of the
in the production of diesel engines. But decks. This made it possible to place cargo at
all searches were unsuccessful. There any point in the hold without transshipment, and
were also proposals to make sketches made it possible to almost halve the processing
of the ships’ diesel engines, received time of cargo, and significantly facilitate physical
as reparations after the division of the labor. The length of the vessel reached 155, width
fascist fleets. The Kharkov plant already Dry cargo ship ''Bezhitsa'' (photo from the - 20, depth - 12 meters. Vessels of the same size
had a similar experience, but it took the ''Shipbuilding and ship repair'' magazine, showed good seaworthiness and perfectly obeyed
specialists of this enterprise ten years to 2008, No. 4-5 the helm.
master just one engine model. And the The ''homeland'' of the dry cargo ship
merchant fleet could not wait so long ''Bezhitsa'' was the Kherson shipyard. The launch of the new vessel took place on July 10,
for the appearance of a well-established 1963, but before it set out on a long voyage, it still had to pass a number of tests. November 7,
engine production. 1963 ''Bezhitsa'' left the factory pier and went to sea trials. In the waters of the Black Sea, the
As a result, having weighed all the mechanisms and devices of the first vessel of the new series were tested in action. At the end
pros and cons, the management of BMZ of November, the dry cargo ship returned to the plant to say goodbye to it for a long time after
The first marine engine DB-1 (1961) turned to the Central Committee of the eliminating all the comments. On December 10, 1963, the State Commission signed an act of

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