Fallen auto giant ZIL

ZIL, the oldest autoenterprise Russia, is now experiencing the worst times in its history. It is the largest of the Moscow factory, and its territory is continuing interest from municipal authorities and developers. Last year, Sobyanin said that instead of the plant there will be another luxury residential district. Most of the shops are now eliminated and preparing for the demolition.

This entry shows one of the small shops, is engaged in repair of electric cars and trucks. ZIL was so grandiose that only the relatively small shop - five floors, two elevators, private substation, an assembly hall, trade union, two baths. Let us examine all this economy.
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1. Moving beyond the perimeter, we immediately went to the unfinished plant. From this view of the factory opened. On the right are the abandoned plant. On the left, with the circular railway, ZIL continues and reaches even far away.



2. My companion, the well-known MIN, shoots video to your channel.



3. Going through a welcoming open gate, we estimated the scale of production.



4. Before electric cars gathered here from all over the plant on the planned inspection, repairs and charge the battery.



5. And now the time has been said, "Stop!".



6. Behind the door, find tire shops. Until now little scattered around the tire. By the way, we do here - we later found a whole pile of rubber blanks and boxes, packed to capacity ready tires.



7. On the wall - the instructions for lifting machinery during repairs.



8. And the ceiling - traditional signs of TB.



9. Go ahead, still affected areas shops.



10. We find souvenirs: body cast toy car, tin airplane and number - inner Zilovskoye.



11. Silence on our way to the first floor.



12. Then there was the battery recharging station.



13. Close - compartment ventilation.



14. Finding the stairs down, we went down to the heating unit under the building. Distance heat pipeline corridor goes directed towards the already demolished shops.



15. Since the plant consumes a large amount of power, he had his own substation. We went out into the hall, where there were transformers.



16. One of the two ladders for access to the upper member.



17. For these colored tires once flowed a huge current.



18. I was struck by his appearance oil switch VM. For arc suppression is provided a vat of oil, suspended by ropes. And these switches I counted about a dozen.



19. The control panel also hit the scale.



20. At the same time he hit her, and old-fashioned.



21. looked inside the console.



22. After rising to the second floor, walk on a small and cozy departments: Winding and electric.



23. There remained a couple of machines.



24. Sharpening machine.



25. Drilling machine.



26. On the walls of the winding department - slogans, posters TB, a portrait of Lenin and Trinity Tower of the Kremlin.



27. For workers was the machine with soda water. On the glass - "natsarapka" times last Olympics.



28. Posters TB eternally relevant.



29. I am interested in the scoreboard employment electricians door cabins.



30. They looked at the warehouse, looked set of cabinets for spare parts, is now completely empty.



31. Finally got to shop for the manufacture of batteries.



32. As the batteries are made of lead-acid, when the shop was a small chemistry laboratory.



33. The sun beats in the dusty windows.



34. This is just one room, but it's packed with equipment, various utensils, banks reagents.



35. The ceramic furnace.



36. Some strange device.



37. Standard Soviet scales.



38. The cabinet threw a variety of chemicals, salts, acids ...



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41. Although the area elektrokarovy shop ten times inferior to some of the casting or pressing, floors are connected already two elevators, not counting the many stairs. It speaks volumes about the entire plant, which was a "city within a city."



42. From a window overlooking the roof of the shop.



43. The floor above were changing rooms and showers for the workers.



44. My attention was drawn to these signs.



45. There was also a sauna, a very tiny, not razvernёshsya.



46. ​​But the sauna for guidance. Quite a different volume, which has to lie. And yet a number were premises for psychological relief, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.



47. If we are talking about bosses, we move into the administrative part.



48. The corridors are decorated with numerous posters. This one hangs from the department of labor protection.



49. The real rarity for connoisseurs - metro scheme 1996-1998.



50. The government limousines - once the pride of the plant.



51. And now only the dried plant.



52. Time stood still.



53. Engineering Department froze all line drawing board.



54. MIN stuck for a long time, looking at the stand with the historic photographs around the office section chief.



55. It was in the shop and a meeting room. MSH read from the rostrum appeal to viewers of his channel.



56. Unfortunately, people are looking at us with these old photos, will never return to his factory. The built in its place the district they are also unlikely to live.



57. When finished elektrokarovogo inspection department, we throw in a nearby building, and, as it turned out, was not in vain.



58. It was a compressor station in the second foundry.



59. The equipment is partially preserved.



60. All compressors are installed on a raised platform. Their platforms are based on springs, damping vibrations during operation.



61. Preserved compressors and gearboxes. Powerful motors unfortunately failed to catch.



62. The thick-walled compressor casing made a strong impression on me.



63. Under the roof of working jib.



64. Two compressors had to saw and take out, the same fate awaits the rest.



65. And while they are there, we can enjoy their views. For me it was a double joy, because I have not managed to catch similar units in the complex for testing jet engines.



66. Numerous sensors monitor the operation of the machines.



67. Along the walls are cabinets with electronic equipment.



68. Inside them - interlacing wires and circuit elements.



69. On the wall - another poster on TB.



70. During the broken windows was a remote control unit.



71. Remote occupied the room.



72. To this point, too, time has stopped. But the setting sun told us that it was time to move on emissions. We are still required to get back to dissolving at dusk ZIL.



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