"GRUZOVOZOFF" branch office in Izhevsk


Address:
12 Novoazhimova Str., 426010, Izhevsk, Russia


Telephone/Fax:
+ 7 (3412) 54-26-25, 56-07-33, 51-45-15, 54-03-49


E-mail:
izhevsk@gruzovozoff.ru


Open hours:
Monday - Friday: 9:00 - 19:00
Saturday: 10:00 - 16:00
Sunday closed


Head of the branch office:
Oleg Gudkov

The year of foundation of Izhevsk is 1760, when count P.I. Shuvalov began the construction of a metallurgical works on the river Izh in the Kazanskaya province. A settlement named Izhevskiy Zavod grew around the works. In 1763 at the works the first finery iron was produced. The small arms factory of Tula, the arsenals of Petersburg, Briansk and Warsaw and the Admiralty of the Black Sea were its monopolistic consumer. In 1806 3635 anchors were forged at the works. In 1807 on the basis of the metallurgical works a small arms factory was built, which passed to the military department in 1809. In 1812 the unfinished factory produced more than 500 guns per month. Since the middle of the 19th 4 private factories of Izhevsk launched the production of various shotguns. In the 19th – at the beginning of the 20th the Izhevsky factory was one of the biggest small arms factories in Russia. During the First World War (1914-1918) the production of guns reached 2000 guns per day. In order to speed the distribution and the delivery of raw materials up, the settlement was connected by the railway with the landing-stage Galiany on the river Kama, with the Botkinsky factory and with the station Agryz. Through this station Izhevsk was connected with Kazan and later with Ekaterinburg. The rapid development of the settlement led to the growth in population. At the beginning of the last century Izhevsk exceled other neighbouring towns (Perm, Novgorod, Ufa) in number of residents. The peculiarity of Izhevsk is in the fact, that for many years it was actually a big industrial center of the region without having the legitimated status of a town. In November of 1920 the indigenous population of this region became its autonomy, which was transformed later in the Udmurtskaya Republic. On June 10, 1921 Izhevsk became the center of Udmurtia. Today this date is the official birthday of the city. The present-day Izhevsk is a big industrial city, which produces more than a half of the products of Udmurtia. The leading branches are metal-working industry, engineering industry and metallurgy. There are: the manufacture “Izhmash” (production of cars, motor bikes, machine-tools, electric saws, shotguns); the “Izhneftemash” and the “Metallist” factories and a mechanical plant (shotguns and sport guns). Historical dates: In 1774 the troops of Emelian Pugachev occupied Izhevsk and destroyed it. In 1918 the settlement Izhevsky Zavod was transformed into the city Izhevsk, in the Udmurt language “Izhkar” ( “kar” – city) – “the city on the river Izh”. In 1949 – the “Izhmash” launched the serial production of AK-47 (sub-machine-gun Kalashnikov). Its constructor, Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, today the chief constructor of the shooting arms of Russia, lives in Izhevsk. In 1985-87 Izhevsk had the name “Ustinov” (by the family name of the soviet statesman D.F. Ustinov (1908-1983).