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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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