Atommash history
Soviet period
1969
November 26, 1969
The decisoin of the CPSU Central Committee and the Council of Ministers of the USSR announces start of the Volgodonsk heavy engineering plant construction
1970
May 22, 1970
To find a site for the plant construction, the Commission of the Ministry of Heavy, Power and Transport Engineering of the USSR is established
1971
April 26, 1971
Vasily Lyapustin is appointed as the Director of the Main Directorate of Nuclear Engineering and Boiler Building
1972
A basic design of the plant is developed and then reviewed by the expertise of the Ministry of Heavy Engineering and General Board of State Expert Review of the State Committee for Construction of the USSR
1974
March 10, 1974
The construction of a new plant and, at the same time, new part of Volgodonsk receives the status of All-Union Top Priority Komsomol Construction Project
1975
December 22, 1975
The first 28-t column of the plant's main building is installed
1976
December 18, 1976
The first stage of building No.3 is put into operation
1978
December 18, 1978
At 12:45 MSK, the acceptance certificate for the first stage of the plant is signed
1979
December 18, 1979
The second stage of the first plant's building is delivered
1981
October 1, 1981
A solemn ceremony is held ito memorize shipment of the first Volgodonsk reactor pressure vessel to the South Ukrainian NPP
up to 2012
1991
The plant manufacutes the first 13 nuclear reactor pressure vessels and more than 100 equipment items
1996
The Atommash manufactures and installs a space-vehicle launcher for the Sea Launch Project
1997
The plant becomes a part of the Energomash Group of Companies
2001
The plant launches production of the equipment for small-capacity gas turbine central heating and power plants, oil refineries, and petrochemical plants
Since 2012, a part of AEM-technologies
2012
The Atommash becomes a part of the AEM-Technologies and a part of the Rosatom machine-building division
2013
After almost 30-year break in the nuclear reactors production, the construction of a VVER-1200 reactor begins for the Belarusian NPP
2014
A large-scale program of equipment updating and purchase is launched
2015
October 14, 2015
The construction of the VVER-1200 reactor pressure vessel for Belarusian NPP Power Unit 2 is completed. This is the first reactor pressure vessel produced within the Rosatom structure
2016
October 31, 2016
The second VVER-1200 reactor pressure vessel is shipped
2019
The pressure vessel of the MBIR research reactor is hydraulically tested
2022
Equipment production for the NPP power units on the southern coast of Turkey begins
