UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2016. A book on industrial artifacts located on Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s premises is to come out in celebration of the plant’s 80th anniversary, the company press service reports.

‘This full-color catalogue with plenty of pictures and photographs and essays on the plant’s history in Russian and English will come out soon. The new edition will feature pieces on the industrial architecture of the world’s largest machine-building giant, Russian Constructivism, and Socialist Classicism. Readers will learn about the impact the plant’s production challenges made on the look of the new departments in the 1960s and the 1980s. The chapter on Industrial Culture Expressed in Metal is dedicated to Ural Vagon Zavod Museum’s collection of tanks, railcars, and hi tech machines. Special sections of the book will dwell on the museum’s current exhibition and its plans for the future as well as on the plant’s art collection,’ the press service says.

There are also features on Nizhniy Tagil’s first cascade fountain next to the plant’s primary entrance. The fountain was put up in the forties; it was actually designed by a German architect who worked at the plant after the war along with three hundred other POWs.