The history of “SpetsHydroEnergoMontazh”
All-Union Complex Enterprise as a specialized organization dealing with assembly of state-of-the-art hydropower equipment for hydro power plants started in June 1942, when the Company restored the Volkhovskaya HPP near St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) destroyed in the war.
For the above period SpetsHydroEnergoMontazh personnel assembled and put into operation over thousand hydro power units throughout the former Soviet Union and abroad. All hydro power plants in the former Soviet Union were built with participation of SHEM’s assembly experts and personnel.
In Ukraine SpetsHydroEnergoMontazh commenced its operations in 1955 at the construction of the Kakhovskaya HPP, at that time it has the name of SHEM Dneprovskyi Assembly Department. Later on, it carried out its specialized work related to construction and overhauls of hydro power plants, pumping plants, water management facilities and civil and industrial objects, the Company increased its production and technical capacity and scope of work done, developed business relations, cooperation with colleagues and partners in Ukraine and abroad.
After its transformation in 1991 in an open joint stock company, the Company had a developed regional structure at all Ukrainian hydro power plants; OJSC Dnepr-SHEM does specialized work for:
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Assembly, upgrade and capital repair of turbine, generator and supporting equipment of the hydro power plants owned by the UkrHydroEnergo Company.
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Construction of Tashlykskaya and Dnestrovskaya pumped storage units.
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Capital repair and upgrade of the Dnepr navigation locks.
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Implementation of contracts for foreign hydro energy facilities in Russia, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Georgia.
Within the period of its long-term work in Ukraine and abroad SpetsHydroEnergoMontazh assembled and put into operation:
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At hydro power plants: 110 hydroelectric units with the capacity from 5 to 400 ÌW and total installed capacity of 5,757 mW.
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At 30 pumping plants – 174 pumping units with the total capacity of 2.611 m3/sec.
Yuriy Nikolaevych Kovalyov
Board Chairman and General Director
OJSC “SpetsHydroEnergoMontazh”
