Russian Railways will spend 67.5 billion rubles until 2025. for the purchase of Lastochka trains

The total investment program of Russian Railways for the next three years may reach a record 4.4 trillion rubles,newspaper reports

Russian Railways (RZD) will purchase Lastochka passenger electric trains for 67.5 billion rubles from the Sinara group within three years. This is reported by Vedomosti with reference to the September materials for the draft investment program of Russian Railways for 2023–2025.

STM Holding (Sinara - transport vehicles) is indeed negotiating with Russian Railways on the supply of Lastochkas in 2023-2025. In particular, in 2023, it is planned to deliver 23 five-car electric trains,” a STM representative told the newspaper.

The representative of Russian Railways specified that the state monopoly bought 145 cars of Lastochka electric trains in 2021, and plans to purchase 28 trains, or 140 cars, in 2022, of which the manufacturer has already delivered 18 trains.

The previous version of the Russian Railways investment program provided for the purchase of Lastochka only in 2023 and for less than 1 billion rubles. But in the next two years, Russian Railways were going to spend a little more than 20 billion rubles. for high speed trains. Now these plans have been abandoned, it follows from the document.

The total investment program of Russian Railways for the next three years can reach a record 4.4 trillion rubles, of which 1.23 trillion rubles. planned to invest in 2023, 1.5 trillion rubles. - in 2024 and 1.66 trillion rubles. — in 2025.

Lastochka electric trains have been produced at the Ural Locomotives plant in Verkhnyaya Pyshma since 2014, deliveries to Russian Railways began in 2015. The plant mass-produces "Lastochki" for intracity and suburban traffic on routes up to 200 km. About 1,200–1,300 Lastochka cars of 28 different modifications now run on the Russian Railways network. The localization of the production of these electric trains is about 87%.

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The Lastochkas were built on the platform of the Siemens Desiro electric train. The "daughter" of the German company "Siemens Mobility" served trains for a long time, but in early March, Siemens suspended work in RUSSIA. The company associated its withdrawal from the country with Western sanctions against Russia.

After that, Russian Railways promised to continue the maintenance of trains. “Maintenance of the Sapsan and Lastochka trains will continue under the current Russian legislation under the guidance and control of the Russian Railways holding,” the company said.

Siemens has been operating in Russia since 1852 when the company was engaged in laying telegraph lines. According to the FT, Russia accounted for about 1% of the conglomerate's total sales. About 2.7 thousand employees worked in the parent company of the concern in Russia, Siemens LLC, and the turnover in the 2020 financial year amounted to €723 million.