Krasnoyarsk combine plant: production, trade and repair of combines

Krasnoyarsk combine plant is a large enterprise for the production of grain harvesting equipment in the city of Krasnoyarsk. In 2013, the process of its closure and construction on the site of the KZK residential complex was initiated. The main production facilities are relocated to Cheboksary.

Establish an enterprise

Krasnoyarsk Combine Plant was established in October 1941. The basis for the enterprise was evacuated to Krasnoyarsk Zaporozhye combine harvester Kommunar, as well as several shops and equipment of the Luberetskiy Agricultural Machinery Plant named after. Ukhtomsky, who was transferred from the beginning of the war to the production of ammunition.

Labor feat

The enterprise was decided to place near the Krasnoyarsk station in the premises of an unfinished liquor and vodka plant. Under wartime conditions, he was called plant number 703. Already on October 11, 1941, in temporary workshops, equipped directly on the street under canvas canopies, plant workers began to produce mines and shells for the front. In addition to the evacuated specialists, Krasnoyarsk workers worked at the plant, mainly teenagers - graduates of the FZU and women, who accounted for more than half the plant's employees. In March 1942 the first batch of shells, produced by the Krasnoyarsk plant No. 703, was sent to the front.

Despite the war time, the company also manufactured parts for agricultural machines. In December 1943 the government decided to produce self-propelled combine harvesters in Krasnoyarsk. In 1944-45, more than 500 Kombinar harvesters assembled at the plant were sent to the country's fields.

Peaceful time

In the postwar years the enterprise was developing rapidly. The Krasnoyarsk combine plant continued to increase production of peaceful products. In the 1950s, the main models were self-propelled combines S-4 and S-4M. In 1959, the more comfortable and economical SC-3 and SKG-3 machines with a productivity of almost 3 hectares per hour came off the factory conveyor.

In 1969 the production of the combine "Sibiryak" with the capacity of 100 horsepower, created by the designers of the combine, became one of the best Soviet machines of its time. In 1984, new Krasnoyarsk combine harvesters of the Yenisei series entered the country's fields. The most successful model was the combine "Yenisei-1200" with a capacity of up to 7.5 kg of grain per second. The plant also made repairs of equipment.

Production

Year after year the plant expanded its technological capacities, increased labor productivity. If in the 1950s, less than 4,000 machines went off the KPC conveyor line each year, in the second half of the 1960s their number reached almost 18,000 annually. New types of products were the forage harvester SKD-5R, seeders, shredders, harvesting parts. In addition to their main specialization, the factory workers established the production of consumer goods: meat grinders, umbrellas, washing machines.

By the 1980s the combine plant was the largest enterprise in Krasnoyarsk, its staff numbered almost 12 thousand people. Monthly from its gate there were up to 2000 cars. Combine harvesters and forage harvesters of Krasnoyarsk production could be seen in all corners of the USSR, in the fields of Eastern Europe, Cuba, Egypt, and other African countries.

Production

KPC produced a wide range of agricultural machinery, later known under the brand "Agromash". It:

• Combine harvester "Enisey-1200" of various modifications.
• Combine crawler combine "Yenisei-1200RM".
• ZK "Yenisei-950/954".
• Forage harvester "Yenisei-324".
• Forestry equipment.
• Communal equipment.
• Irrigation equipment.
• Trailed equipment.

The most widely used were various modifications of the Yenisei-1200 series. Developed in the mid-80's, they constantly improved. They can still be found in many farms. High-performance equipment has an enviable versatility: it removes grains (including soybeans and corn), beans, sunflower, industrial crops, seeds of grasses. It is equipped with a header, pick-up, chopper, kopnitelem, straw spreader.

In the newer Yenisei-950 model, some of the shortcomings of the previous generation harvesting equipment have been eliminated, productivity (up to 9 tons per hour) and comfort have been significantly increased. The line is equipped with two models of engines: YAMZ-236DK9 or D-44259I with a power of 136 and 132 kW.

Self-harboring "Yenisei-324" is able to mow the green mass of grasses and pick up swaths with a podvlyannoy culture. Specialized attachments allow the removal of silage crops. Operational capacity - up to 300 liters. from. The throughput is 11-30 kg / s. Many nodes are unified with the entire line of the "Yenisei" series.

Time checking

In the late 80's, economic reforms began in the country. The transfer of enterprises to self-financing, tightening of financial relations between the state and agricultural enterprises led to a sharp decline in demand and a reduction in the number of orders for agricultural machinery. With the onset of radical market reforms and the collapse of the USSR, the Krasnoyarsk combine plant experienced difficulties.

The ties with suppliers, which the factory had in Soviet times before 720 in the territory of the entire former Union, were growing, the debt of the enterprise grew, and the wage arrears for workers reached 14 months. Production was curtailed - the country's second largest combine harvesting plant, designed to produce 25,000 harvesters a year, in 1992 produced just 400 units from the conveyor belt, and in 1998 - only 294 combine harvesters. To make ends meet, the enterprise established the production of umbrellas and consumer goods.

The situation began to change from 1998 with the change of leadership. By 2000, the output of machinery at the KPC PO increased by 10 times and amounted to 3000 machines per year, the production of combines grew by 20-30% annually. Krasnoyarsk agricultural machines again began to conquer the markets of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries. The share of "Krasnoyarsk" in the market of combines in Russia reached 45% in the early 2000s. Also here the equipment was repaired.

The next crisis of 2008 was undermined by the established production. Entering the enterprise in the concern "Tractor Plants" gave us hope, but by 2010 the KPC was actually bankrupt. The new management felt that it would be more rational to transfer production to the city of Cheboksary, and to vacate the liberated areas for commercial construction. The liquidation of the plant began in 2013. Short staff was mostly employed in other enterprises.