November 12, 2014. A company museum was set up at Uralvagonzavod, Nizhniy Tagil, forty-five years ago. The museum is now a part of Uralvagonzavod’s exhibition facility that also comprises an armored vehicles museum and a an open-air exhibition of the plant’s railway carriages, the enterprise’s press service reports.

‘The very existence of such a large-scale exhibition facility is quite a unique phenomenon. The plant’s museums are homes to some 50,000 artifacts of the enterprise’s industrial history and the workers’ spiritual heritage. One can find historic documents and photographs as well as drawings, product samples, and personal belongings of grassroots employees and managers dating back to various periods. Among the most valuable industrial exhibits are, for example, the world’s first unit meant for flux core welding of tank armor, which was designed by academician E.O. Pavlov at Ural Tank Plant in 1942; the operating panel for controlling the loading of the first Soviet space shuttle Buran with liquid hydrogen, which was developed at Uralcryomash; and some personal belongings of renowned scientists and engineers – V.V. Venediktov, M.N. Veremyev, D.N. Lorenzo, Yu.E. Markov, and others,’ the press service says.

The exhibition also features inventor’s certificates issued to Uralvagonzavod workers and patents on the development and introduction of the world’s, Europe’s or Russia’s first rare technologies, equipment, or facilities. What is more, the company museum’s collection of paintings comprises over a hundred canvases, including those by A.I.Kuindzhi, V.N. Baksheyev, N.Ya.Belyanin, and Ya.D. Romas.