Company history

1940 
Creating of the TEIS Project Bureau

The history of the Institute dates back to the first half of the XX century. At the turn of the 1920s – 1930s, industrialization was unfolded in the country. An urgent need for the formation of a centralized structure is appeared which is capable of solving urgent tasks to justify the construction of new railways and the technical re-equipment of existing railway lines.

In the structure of the All-Union design and survey association Soyuztransproekt NKPS, a sector of technical and economic surveys (54 people) is being created, which in 1938 was reorganized into the department of technical and economic surveys (TES).

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In the pre-war years, the number of employees of the department of technical and economic surveys was 40 people.

From 1935 to 1940 in the TEI department as part of the Soyuztransproekt on the instructions of the NKPS:

• comprehensive proposals are being developed to strengthen 25 crucial directions, including the Ural – Center connection, exit from Kuzbass, Balashovskoye and other cargo-stressed directions;

• economic sections of projects of Komsomolsk, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk nodes, Nakhodka station are being developed;

• the schemes of placement of car and locomotive repair plants for the perspective of 1942 are substantiated.;

• the issue of attaching locomotives to a locomotive repair plant along the roads of the USSR is being resolved with the calculation of the number and structure of the locomotive fleet.

The development of economic parts of projects for the construction of new lines, large nodes (Nizhny Tagil, Yaroslavl, Omsk, Michurinsky and many others), second paths, bypasses of nodes is also underway.

The scheme of technical and operational characteristics of the railways of the USSR with the establishment of capacity is being developed. On the eve of the Great Patriotic War, issues related to the construction of the BAM, the unification of the length of the receiving tracks, the placement and development of the factory repair base with the calculation of the structure and number of the rolling stock fleet are being resolved.

On the 15 of March of 1940, in accordance with the order of the People's Commissariat of Railways of the USSR, an independent organization was created on the basis of the Department of technical and economic surveys of the Soyuztransproekt of the NKPS - the Design Bureau of Technical and Economic Surveys of Railway Transport (TES Design Bureau).

Vladimir Vasilyevich Solomin becomes his first boss.