Russian Federation

The first contacts between ThyssenKrupp and Russia go back to 1818 when the Russian finance ministry ordered eight cast steel coining dies from Krupp. The first major order was in 1848 for a complete rolling mill for a spoon factory in Petersburg. In 1878, Henschel supplied the first locomotives to Russia.

After the First World War, freight train locomotives were one of the main products supplied to Russia from 1920. The first contacts after the Second World War were made by Berthold Beitz. In the following decades, lively economic contacts developed. Among other things, the Group supplied numerous complete chemical plants, including several DMT plants for transforming petroleum products into synthetic fibers. In 1970, a consortium of Mannesmann Export/Thyssen Stahlunion-Export supplied 1.2 million tons of large-diameter pipe for a natural gas pipeline in the then USSR.

Today, Russia is still one of our most important partner countries in Central and Eastern Europe, with sales focusing on materials. ThyssenKrupp has a Group Representative Office in Moscow with sales and sourcing employees from all our major business areas.

Currently ThyssenKrupp owns 6 companies in Russia with around 940 employees. The largest ThyssenKrupp employer in Russia is the engineering company OAO Uhde in Dzershinsk with 380 employees. It was acquired by Uhde GmbH in 1994 as part of a privatization program. OAO Uhde supports the parent company in the detail engineering and brings Uhde's contracting competence to international investors in Russia as well as to Russian customers. The main fields of activity are oil and gas, refinery equipment, organic intermediates and polymers as well as high-tech solutions in industrial plant construction and infrastructure.

All details relate to to the 2008/2009 fiscal year, Annual Report, as of September 30, 2009.

For further information please contact our Group Representative for the Russian Federation: