Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant ...
Ulan-Ude aviation Zavod (U-UAZ) is the only company in Russia that produces both airplanes and helicopters. Over its 75 year old history The existence of the plant has manufactured more than 9 thousands of aircraft. Today, the products of the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant are supplied to state and commercial customers of Russia and other countries of the world, successfully operating in more than 40 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, Australia and Oceania ...
But before visiting the workshops of the aircraft factory, a little of its history:
In May, 1936 of the Year adopted a Resolution of the USSR Labor and Defense Council No. 128 on the construction of two aircraft repair plants in Ulan-Ude and Arsenyev. The plant in Ulan-Ude was assigned the number 99, and already on December 4 of 1936, the USSR Labor and Defense Council determined the site for the construction of a plant in the Shenestuy district, on the bank of the Ud ...
In July, 1939, the first stage of the plant was put into operation, which began its activities with the repair of fighters and X-NUMX and SB bombers. During World War II, the factory organized the production of fuselages and empennage of Pe-16 airplanes, and from 2 began to produce La-1943 fighters (according to 5 g). Later, La-1946 fighters began to descend from the stocks, and from 7, La-1946 fighters began to descend ...
After the war, the company launched the production of a jet training fighter MiG-15 UTI. And with 1956 of the year, helicopters appeared. First, the piston with the coaxial Ka-15 scheme, later the Ka-18, and in 1965 — 1975 years, the Ka-25 deck-mounted gas turbines were also manufactured ...
At the beginning of the 1960-s high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft and target aircraft Yak-25РВ and cruise missiles of sea and land-based C-5 and P-5D were produced. At the same time, the plant mastered the production of passenger aircraft An-24 ...
In the 70, the company began production of MiG-27M fighter-bomber aircraft, and from the 80-x of the Su-25UB aircraft. Later, along with the Su-25UB attack aircraft, a series of deck training aircraft Su-25UTG was built. These aircraft were delivered for the needs of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR and Russia. In particular, they became part of the aviation group of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov ...
Today, U-UAZ manufactures Mi-8 / 17 series helicopters developed by the Moscow-based M.L. Mile: civil models of the Mi-8AMT and Mi-171 series, military Mi-8AMTSH and Mi-171Sh. The company is part of the holding company "Helicopters of Russia". The plant's management does not exclude that, at the facilities of the enterprise, they may in the future resume the production of Su-25 attack aircraft. According to the managing director, all equipment is in working condition. True, you will need to invest heavily. But the real possibility of resuming the release of attack aircraft at the aircraft plant in Ulan-Ude really exists ...
The company carries out a full cycle of production, including the manufacture of components from composite materials, after-sales service of aircraft manufactured, conducts training and retraining of flight and engineering personnel on the basis of its own certified training center. U-UAZ has a modern flight test complex, which includes a factory airfield with a runway capable of receiving virtually all existing types of aircraft. Aircraft quality requirements developed at U-UAZ over the years of production of military and civil aircraft are applied to the creation of helicopter technology ...
Well, who can best tell about his plant, no matter how its managing director Leonid Yakovlevich Belykh.
Leonid Yakovlevich was born in Buryatia and after graduating from the Ulan-Ude Aviation Technical School in 1969, he entered the aviation factory as an assembler in the operation workshop. Having traveled from production master to deputy general director for marketing and sales, in 1998 he was elected general director of U-UAZ OJSC. Without a break from production, he graduated from the Higher School of the Trade Union Movement, the Leningrad Academy of Civil Aviation and became a candidate of economic sciences ...
Shop machining - the kingdom of aluminum alloys and automation. Flexible automatic systems are able to carve out any intricate detail from a whole piece, and there’s clearly no shortage of helicopters with such details ...
New hub vibration dampers today are made on a single machine by milling from a single piece of metal. And although the waste in the form of chips from such processing is obtained in excess, but economically it is more profitable, and the quality of the part and the time of its production have increased several times ...
A few years ago, the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant launched a comprehensive production modernization program. There are several investment projects at different stages of implementation at the enterprise. They are based on the general principles of modernization: the transition to high-speed machining, the development of control programs based on mathematical models, process automation, and more. All this is necessary both for improving the product now being produced, and for promising projects ...
Depending on the shape of the parts, various machines are used. There are also lines at the plant of the German company Hermle, one of the largest manufacturers of milling machines and machining centers in the world ...
The main tools for processing light alloys are cutters and drills. It is from their state that the quality of the part obtained directly depends. They are all under close control. Regular inspections and maintenance of tools on special equipment is one of the mandatory components of a guarantee of the quality of products ...
For these tasks in the workshop created by the Bureau specifically, the need for which Leonid Yakovlevich paid special attention ...
The efficiency of the entire production as a whole directly depends on the competent and rational use of the tool ...
After machining, the helicopter's structural elements are subject to anti-corrosion treatment and priming.
According to Leonid Yakovlevich, this year it is planned to build a new electroplating station. The full body will be launched through 2,5 of the year. It will be designed for electroplating, which will provide parts protection against corrosion for decades ...
In the subsidiary plant of the plant are manufactured blades for helicopters ...
The tail boom is ready for docking with the fuselage ...
Primed parts are supplied to the assembly slipways. The docking of the frames and stringers begins, the cladding of the outer skin ...
At the request of the customer, Mi-8 / 17 helicopters can be equipped with a ramp compartment, installed instead of cargo doors ...
Next to the already well-known "Mil" models, the fourth experienced Mi-171А2 is preparing to install glazing. This is the latest modification of the Mi-8 / 17 family of helicopters, which has retained the best qualities of its famous predecessors. During its development, a large number of improvements were made to the design. Developed on the basis of the Mi-171А1, the helicopter will have an improved powerplant and transmission, a new carrier system, an upgraded avionics complex, improved flight performance and operational characteristics, and a new system of operation and maintenance. It will differ in reduced maintenance costs, carry loads of up to 5 tons on the external sling, fly at ambient temperatures from −50 ° C to 50 ° C and fly at higher allowable side wind speeds. Flight range with main fuel tanks increased to 850 km ...
When the glazing is installed, the product can be transported to the leak test area ...
In this room, under the pressure of a water shower, the fuselage skin panel joints are checked ...
After the completion of the SKD assembly, the helicopters arrive at the avionics installation shop and accessories. Each machine is already at the stage of construction is a piece product, designed for a specific customer. The choice of the installed equipment and a complete set depends on it. This helicopter, which is going for the Republic of Angola, was no exception ...
Kilometers of wires just shocking! To understand this kingdom is not possible for the common man. Here is a place only for real professionals ...
In the final assembly shop, almost ready-made machines with power units go through the final stages of installing additional equipment and debugging it according to customer requirements. For example, this snow-white handsome man, equipped with an external winch for landing, will continue to serve in the EMERCOM of Kazakhstan ...
Leonid Yakovlevich told us that the delivery of the first copies of the new Arctic version of the helicopter (code name - Mi-8AMTSH-VA) may begin as early as next year. For him, everything is already there. The prototype is preparing for launch, and now the decision is only for the Ministry of Defense. If an agreement is signed this year, then a helicopter will appear next. The Arctic helicopter will meet the tasks of operation in adverse weather conditions of the Arctic zone and the Extreme North, which is very important for our country. The machine is developed taking into account the specifics of the application in low temperature conditions, limited visibility when performing flights, including during the polar night. The helicopter will be able to fly even with difficulties with orientation, for example, during the disappearance of satellite signals ...
At the site near the assembly shop, we see the already fully prepared Mi-8AMT (Mi-171) ...
Next to him is the military transport Mi-8AMTSH. It is intended for transportation and quick landing of paratroopers (up to 37 people), transportation of 12 injured on stretchers and accompanied by medical staff, cargo delivery to 4000 kg in the cargo compartment or on the external suspension. It can be effectively used for the destruction of enemy personnel, armored vehicles, surface targets, structures, fortified firing points, assault fire support, military convoy escorts, combat search and rescue operations, reconnaissance operations, patrols, etc.
This not yet painted Mi-171 is made for the Republic of Angola ...
This year, the aviation plant in Ulan-Ude celebrated its 75 anniversary. On the anniversary of the enterprise, the 850 helicopter was manufactured, which was the Mi-171А1, built for the Brazilian commercial airline Atlas Taxi Aereo. At the Vostochny airfield, where the plant is located, a festive air show was held with the participation of helicopters and the Russian Knights aerobatic team.
Today, U-UAZ is a modern high-tech enterprise, which produces around the 100 helicopters of the type Mi-8 / 17 per year, actively modernizing production and investing in social projects. U-UAZ is a city-forming enterprise, on whose work the socio-economic development of the city and the republic depends. In 2013, the amount of taxes paid by the enterprise to the budgets of different levels amounted to about 4 billion rubles. The amount of payments to the consolidated budget of the Republic of Buryatia increased compared to 2012 for the year by more than 1,5 billion rubles and amounted to approximately 2,7 billion rubles. The plant today employs around 7 thousands of people. U-UAZ was able to withstand the difficult years of the crisis and increase production volumes. It is for such enterprises that the future of our country, its well-being and strength.
ps I personally express my deep gratitude to the staff of the press service of Russian Helicopters and Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant for the opportunity to visit the company!
But before visiting the workshops of the aircraft factory, a little of its history:
In May, 1936 of the Year adopted a Resolution of the USSR Labor and Defense Council No. 128 on the construction of two aircraft repair plants in Ulan-Ude and Arsenyev. The plant in Ulan-Ude was assigned the number 99, and already on December 4 of 1936, the USSR Labor and Defense Council determined the site for the construction of a plant in the Shenestuy district, on the bank of the Ud ...
In July, 1939, the first stage of the plant was put into operation, which began its activities with the repair of fighters and X-NUMX and SB bombers. During World War II, the factory organized the production of fuselages and empennage of Pe-16 airplanes, and from 2 began to produce La-1943 fighters (according to 5 g). Later, La-1946 fighters began to descend from the stocks, and from 7, La-1946 fighters began to descend ...
After the war, the company launched the production of a jet training fighter MiG-15 UTI. And with 1956 of the year, helicopters appeared. First, the piston with the coaxial Ka-15 scheme, later the Ka-18, and in 1965 — 1975 years, the Ka-25 deck-mounted gas turbines were also manufactured ...
At the beginning of the 1960-s high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft and target aircraft Yak-25РВ and cruise missiles of sea and land-based C-5 and P-5D were produced. At the same time, the plant mastered the production of passenger aircraft An-24 ...
In the 70, the company began production of MiG-27M fighter-bomber aircraft, and from the 80-x of the Su-25UB aircraft. Later, along with the Su-25UB attack aircraft, a series of deck training aircraft Su-25UTG was built. These aircraft were delivered for the needs of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR and Russia. In particular, they became part of the aviation group of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov ...
Today, U-UAZ manufactures Mi-8 / 17 series helicopters developed by the Moscow-based M.L. Mile: civil models of the Mi-8AMT and Mi-171 series, military Mi-8AMTSH and Mi-171Sh. The company is part of the holding company "Helicopters of Russia". The plant's management does not exclude that, at the facilities of the enterprise, they may in the future resume the production of Su-25 attack aircraft. According to the managing director, all equipment is in working condition. True, you will need to invest heavily. But the real possibility of resuming the release of attack aircraft at the aircraft plant in Ulan-Ude really exists ...
The company carries out a full cycle of production, including the manufacture of components from composite materials, after-sales service of aircraft manufactured, conducts training and retraining of flight and engineering personnel on the basis of its own certified training center. U-UAZ has a modern flight test complex, which includes a factory airfield with a runway capable of receiving virtually all existing types of aircraft. Aircraft quality requirements developed at U-UAZ over the years of production of military and civil aircraft are applied to the creation of helicopter technology ...
Well, who can best tell about his plant, no matter how its managing director Leonid Yakovlevich Belykh.
Leonid Yakovlevich was born in Buryatia and after graduating from the Ulan-Ude Aviation Technical School in 1969, he entered the aviation factory as an assembler in the operation workshop. Having traveled from production master to deputy general director for marketing and sales, in 1998 he was elected general director of U-UAZ OJSC. Without a break from production, he graduated from the Higher School of the Trade Union Movement, the Leningrad Academy of Civil Aviation and became a candidate of economic sciences ...
Shop machining - the kingdom of aluminum alloys and automation. Flexible automatic systems are able to carve out any intricate detail from a whole piece, and there’s clearly no shortage of helicopters with such details ...
New hub vibration dampers today are made on a single machine by milling from a single piece of metal. And although the waste in the form of chips from such processing is obtained in excess, but economically it is more profitable, and the quality of the part and the time of its production have increased several times ...
A few years ago, the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant launched a comprehensive production modernization program. There are several investment projects at different stages of implementation at the enterprise. They are based on the general principles of modernization: the transition to high-speed machining, the development of control programs based on mathematical models, process automation, and more. All this is necessary both for improving the product now being produced, and for promising projects ...
Depending on the shape of the parts, various machines are used. There are also lines at the plant of the German company Hermle, one of the largest manufacturers of milling machines and machining centers in the world ...
The main tools for processing light alloys are cutters and drills. It is from their state that the quality of the part obtained directly depends. They are all under close control. Regular inspections and maintenance of tools on special equipment is one of the mandatory components of a guarantee of the quality of products ...
For these tasks in the workshop created by the Bureau specifically, the need for which Leonid Yakovlevich paid special attention ...
The efficiency of the entire production as a whole directly depends on the competent and rational use of the tool ...
After machining, the helicopter's structural elements are subject to anti-corrosion treatment and priming.
According to Leonid Yakovlevich, this year it is planned to build a new electroplating station. The full body will be launched through 2,5 of the year. It will be designed for electroplating, which will provide parts protection against corrosion for decades ...
In the subsidiary plant of the plant are manufactured blades for helicopters ...
The tail boom is ready for docking with the fuselage ...
Primed parts are supplied to the assembly slipways. The docking of the frames and stringers begins, the cladding of the outer skin ...
At the request of the customer, Mi-8 / 17 helicopters can be equipped with a ramp compartment, installed instead of cargo doors ...
Next to the already well-known "Mil" models, the fourth experienced Mi-171А2 is preparing to install glazing. This is the latest modification of the Mi-8 / 17 family of helicopters, which has retained the best qualities of its famous predecessors. During its development, a large number of improvements were made to the design. Developed on the basis of the Mi-171А1, the helicopter will have an improved powerplant and transmission, a new carrier system, an upgraded avionics complex, improved flight performance and operational characteristics, and a new system of operation and maintenance. It will differ in reduced maintenance costs, carry loads of up to 5 tons on the external sling, fly at ambient temperatures from −50 ° C to 50 ° C and fly at higher allowable side wind speeds. Flight range with main fuel tanks increased to 850 km ...
When the glazing is installed, the product can be transported to the leak test area ...
In this room, under the pressure of a water shower, the fuselage skin panel joints are checked ...
After the completion of the SKD assembly, the helicopters arrive at the avionics installation shop and accessories. Each machine is already at the stage of construction is a piece product, designed for a specific customer. The choice of the installed equipment and a complete set depends on it. This helicopter, which is going for the Republic of Angola, was no exception ...
Kilometers of wires just shocking! To understand this kingdom is not possible for the common man. Here is a place only for real professionals ...
In the final assembly shop, almost ready-made machines with power units go through the final stages of installing additional equipment and debugging it according to customer requirements. For example, this snow-white handsome man, equipped with an external winch for landing, will continue to serve in the EMERCOM of Kazakhstan ...
Leonid Yakovlevich told us that the delivery of the first copies of the new Arctic version of the helicopter (code name - Mi-8AMTSH-VA) may begin as early as next year. For him, everything is already there. The prototype is preparing for launch, and now the decision is only for the Ministry of Defense. If an agreement is signed this year, then a helicopter will appear next. The Arctic helicopter will meet the tasks of operation in adverse weather conditions of the Arctic zone and the Extreme North, which is very important for our country. The machine is developed taking into account the specifics of the application in low temperature conditions, limited visibility when performing flights, including during the polar night. The helicopter will be able to fly even with difficulties with orientation, for example, during the disappearance of satellite signals ...
At the site near the assembly shop, we see the already fully prepared Mi-8AMT (Mi-171) ...
Next to him is the military transport Mi-8AMTSH. It is intended for transportation and quick landing of paratroopers (up to 37 people), transportation of 12 injured on stretchers and accompanied by medical staff, cargo delivery to 4000 kg in the cargo compartment or on the external suspension. It can be effectively used for the destruction of enemy personnel, armored vehicles, surface targets, structures, fortified firing points, assault fire support, military convoy escorts, combat search and rescue operations, reconnaissance operations, patrols, etc.
This not yet painted Mi-171 is made for the Republic of Angola ...
This year, the aviation plant in Ulan-Ude celebrated its 75 anniversary. On the anniversary of the enterprise, the 850 helicopter was manufactured, which was the Mi-171А1, built for the Brazilian commercial airline Atlas Taxi Aereo. At the Vostochny airfield, where the plant is located, a festive air show was held with the participation of helicopters and the Russian Knights aerobatic team.
Today, U-UAZ is a modern high-tech enterprise, which produces around the 100 helicopters of the type Mi-8 / 17 per year, actively modernizing production and investing in social projects. U-UAZ is a city-forming enterprise, on whose work the socio-economic development of the city and the republic depends. In 2013, the amount of taxes paid by the enterprise to the budgets of different levels amounted to about 4 billion rubles. The amount of payments to the consolidated budget of the Republic of Buryatia increased compared to 2012 for the year by more than 1,5 billion rubles and amounted to approximately 2,7 billion rubles. The plant today employs around 7 thousands of people. U-UAZ was able to withstand the difficult years of the crisis and increase production volumes. It is for such enterprises that the future of our country, its well-being and strength.
ps I personally express my deep gratitude to the staff of the press service of Russian Helicopters and Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant for the opportunity to visit the company!
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