Exhibits

1863 The Odessa Heavy Crane Plant named after the January Uprising is a large heavy engineering enterprise in the USSR. It was founded in 1863 as the main railway workshops of the Odessa-Baltic Railway, which was still under construction. The road was opened for regular traffic on December 4, 1865. Subsequently, it changed names, owners, and in 1870 it became Odessa, and in 1878 it became part of the Southwestern Railways. In 1895, it was bought out by the treasury from the Russian Society of Shipping, Trade and the Odessa Railway.

1895–1896 The workshops were engaged in the repair of locomotives and cars. At the same time, in 1895-1896, the workshops built 6 steam locomotives of the 2-2-0 type with a tandem-compound machine. They were built according to the design of the engineer of the Southwestern Railways A. P. Borodin.

1923 In November 1923, the main railway workshops were renamed the January Railway Workshops in honor of the 5th anniversary of the uprising in Odessa in January 1918.

1929–1940 During the pre-war five-year plans (1929–1940), the plant created and improved crane designs. During this time, they produced cranes with lifting capacities of 6, 15, 20, and 45 tons.

1930 In 1930, the workshops were transformed into a crane-building plant. In 1932, the "Yanvarets-1" was designed and manufactured - a steam 6-ton crane on a railway chassis. It became the first-born of serial domestic crane construction.

1933 From 1933 to 1937, the plant built about 2,500 units of two-axle broad-gauge motor locomotives with the "Stalinets-60" engine of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. In 1934–1936, it built about 1,500 more units of narrow-gauge (750 mm) two-axle motor locomotives based on the SHTZ 15/30 tractor, as well as three-axle motor locomotives for a 750 mm gauge with a ChTZ Stalinets-60 engine.

1939 Similar cranes designated PZh-45 and DZh-45 were also produced at the Votkinsk and Kovrov plants. In 1939, production of all 45-ton cranes was stopped after the recovery trains were filled with them. In the 1950s and later, the "Yanvarets" were built with a lifting capacity of 25 tons.

1939 Railway crane PZh-45 "Yanvarets" manufactured in 1939. PZh-45 is a steam railway crane with a lifting capacity of 45 tons. It was converted from a steam crane to a diesel DZh-45 in 1966. It was received by the museum from the recovery train VP-3453 at Gatchina station in 1996.

1941 In July 1941, the plant was evacuated, and most of the equipment was sent by train to the 1 Maya Machine-Building Plant in Kirov and to the city of Kurgan. The restoration of the plant began after the city was liberated from the occupiers in 1944.