History of the name • 1938–1948 – The Ural Turbine Works • 1948–1948 – The Ural Turbine Motor Works • 1976–2003 – The Turbine Motor Works • 2004 – The Ural Turbine Works
USSR In September 1936, the
Council of Labor and Defense made a decision to build a turbine plant in Sverdlovsk that would supply the navy. The project was approved in 1937, and on October 2, 1938 the Ural Turbine Works (UTW) was founded. The first unit of UTW’s design, a turbo feed pump for power plants, was released in 1940. The plant started their serial production. In May 1941, UTW released a 12 MW turbine designed for combined heat and power generation (a cogeneration turbine). The manufacture of the first turbine was the pivotal point in the UTW’s history. The plant mastered the production of the most powerful steam heating turbine of the time. From that moment on, the plant focused on the production of heat extraction turbines. During the war, UTW was referred to as a “turbine resort,” since it was the only operating turbine plant. The UTW workers has restored and refurbished 32 turbines, as the national power industry was in desperate need of turbine equipment. The factory participated in the restoration of Donbass stations, manufacturing a complete AT-25-2 turbine for the Lysychansk TPP (SevDonGRES). In 1942, the factory began producing ship turbines for naval vessels. Originally, the turbine capacity was 16 MW, and since 1943 the plant began manufacturing TV-6 marine turbines with a capacity of 22 MW. As of 2021, the plant manufactures condensing and cogeneration turbines for steam power plants, steam turbines for combined cycle power units, marine- type steam turbines, and power island equipment for waste incineration plants. The plant also provides power equipment maintenance and upgrading services. In 2014, the plant has developed a range of marine turbines for
RITM-200 and RITM-400 nuclear reactors on icebreakers. Every year, UTW brings a new steam turbine design to the market (76 intellectual property patents have been issued to the plant between 2004 and 2024). The key projects include the T-295/335-23.5 power steam turbine, the world’s largest cogeneration turbine with a capacity of 335 MW and a heat load of 385 Mkcal/hr; Kp77-6.8 turbine for waste incineration plants with a capacity of 77 MW; power unit of the turbine plant and a set of heat transfer equipment for the new Russian icebreakers of Project 22220: Arctic, Siberia, and Ural. Between 2018 and 2021, the plant has upgraded three T-100 turbines and the PT-80 unit at the Ulaanbaatar TPP-4 in Mongolia with a capacity of about 600 MW (the station accounts for 68.5% of Mongolia's power generation). In 2015, the project for upgrading the Ulaanbaatar Heat and Power Station #4 was awarded the Altan Gerege Award of the
President of Mongolia and the Development Prize of Vnesheconombank in the Best Export Project category. As of 2023, the plant manufactures condensing and cogeneration turbines for steam power plants, steam turbines for steam-gas power units, ship turbines for ships with nuclear power plants, power island equipment for
waste-to-energy plants, and small power turbines for industrial generation. The plant also provides services for the maintenance and modernization of power equipment. == Products ==