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Bryansk Machine-Building Plant

Heavy industry company in Bryansk, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ4097552 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bryansk Machine-Building Plant (Russian: Брянский машиностроительный завод) is a company based in Bryansk, Russia and established in 1873. It is part of Transmashholding.

The Bryansk Machine-Building Plant is the oldest builder of transportation equipment in Russia. It produces diesel locomotives, marine diesel engines (diesel B&W licensed), and specialized railroad equipment such as five-car refrigerator trains.

Editorial summary

“Bryansk Machine-Building Plant” enters the record as heavy industry company in Bryansk, Russia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bryansk, Machine-Building and Plant can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1873—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1873. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bryansk, Machine-Building and Plant.
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Why this record matters

“Bryansk Machine-Building Plant” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bryansk, Machine-Building and Plant provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4097552. Authority coordinates are 53.300, 34.326. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1873.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bryansk Machine-Building Plant” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.