Metrovagonmash (MVM, part of Transmashholding) will carry out capital repairs of five metro cars of the 81-717/714 series by order of the Samara Metro. All work will be performed by the production branch of the enterprise located in the city of St. Petersburg. According to the contract, the updated rolling stock should be handed over to the customer by the end of this year. This is stated in the TMH message.
Repair and restoration work will extend the service life of the wagons for another 15 years. Bogie frames and wheelsets will be replaced, new engines installed, and electrical equipment updated. A video surveillance system of six video cameras will be installed in passenger cabins and driver cabins. Seats for passengers with limited mobility will be provided in the head cars.
Metro cars of the 81-717/714 series have been in operation since 1978. The rolling stock of this model of various modifications carries passengers in the subways of not only Russian cities, but also Budapest, Sofia, Warsaw and Prague.
The cars of the 81-717 series are head–mounted, with control cabins, and the cars 81-714 are intermediate, without control cabins. The cars of both models are motor cars. The assigned service life is 35 years. Over the years, the model has been repeatedly refined and produced in various modifications. In 2020, a new four-car metro train of this series modification 81-717.6 was transferred to the Samara Metro.
Metrovagonmash was founded in 1897. He has been engaged in the development and production of subway cars since 1934. More than 9 thousand metro cars are operated in 19 subways of cities in 11 countries of the world. Metro cars produced on Metrovagonmash carry more than 16 million passengers daily.
JSC Transmashholding (TIN 7723199790) unites transport engineering enterprises that develop and produce electric locomotives, diesel locomotives, passenger and freight cars, diesel locomotives and marine diesel engines, subway cars, electric and diesel trains, car casting, components and equipment for railway rolling stock.
TMH is a Russian company with headquarters in Moscow and international divisions in Switzerland, Hungary, South Africa, Egypt, Argentina, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The structure of the holding includes 15 production and assembly sites in Russia and other countries of the world, and the geography of work covers more than 30 countries.
The net profit of Transmashholding under RAS for the first half of 2021 increased by 25% to 4.3 billion rubles from 3.4 billion rubles a year earlier. Revenue increased 2.7 times to 48.5 billion rubles from 18.09 billion rubles, gross profit – 2.7 times to 7.1 billion rubles from 2.62 billion rubles, profit before tax – by 29% to 4.9 billion rubles from 3.8 billion rubles.
