best years of car production in the Soviet times. Today, having constant one hundred percent workload with orders from the company VTB-Leasing, which holds the key position in the leasing segments of Russian railway equipment, Stakhanov builders of wagons reached the stable production of 660 cars per month. Subject to the continuation of investment inflow to the enterprise, the production will be developed, new jobsites will be created. Nowadays one can see that the specialists who were forced to leave the company in times of crisis returned to the plant. An increase of employees this year was 1500. Today, all products of Stakhanov builders of wagons are exported. But the administration of Stakhanov Railway Car Building Works hopes that their products will be of demand on the domestic market as well. A record number of carriages In 2010 Stakhanov Railway Car Building Works reached a record volume of output of products, which totaled 7,434 units of freight rolling stock – an unprecedented result for the entire 45-year-old history of the company. Compared with the 2009 the production of carriages was increased by 4.7 times or for 5,850 cars. In particular, 7,134 open-top cars and 300 hopper cars for the transportation of fertilizers were produced. The owner of the seven thousandth car became one of the largest leasing companies in Russia - VTB-Leasing, which is now a strategic partner of the company. А universal gondola car of model 12-963 Specialists of the Design Management of SVGZ offer consumers of railway equipment a new model of gondola universal model 12 - 963, which fully meets the requirements for the cars of a new generation. In comparison with the mass-produced gondola car of model 12-9046, a new model has an all-metal welded body volume which is increased by 2 cubic meters to 87 cubic meters. The cover of the side and the end walls is made of smooth sheet instead of the curved profile. On the end wall two zones and five efforts of the P-shaped cross section are set, which ensure high rigidity for the perception of stress in the collisions. Tare weight of the gondola car is reduced per ton. Bearing metal frame, body, parts of the brake linkage, cover of the body, the hatch covers are made of low-alloyed steel according to GOST 19281-89 14 category, the strength class of which is not less than 390. Centre girder is equipped