Open Joint Stock Company "Galich truck crane plant" is one of the leading manufacturers of hydraulic mobile cranes in Russia. Until 1914, in an area where at present the enterprise is located distillery was a merchant of Arkhangelsk. At him from all around brought raw alcohol and made further purification. From 1914 to 1918 the distillery was converted into a shoe factory, which released the soldiers' shoes. In 1916, the company was nationalized and converted into a chromium plant. At this time, the number of employees ranged 70-100 people. In the 30s the plant converted to a cooperage company of the unit, equipped with woodworking machines for its power plant.
Number of employees – up to 70 people. During the Great Patriotic War, the company did not work … The history of modern engineering plant has its beginning in July 1945, when based on the needs of the country, it was decided to build a motor-repair factory. Metalworking equipment had been sent, and in 1946 was organized by Galich repair plant Ministry of Agriculture. The plant manufactured parts for tractors, agricultural machinery, repairing engines and vehicles, pumps produced KVN 1 lnomyalki, kolchanye rollers and other products. Collective plant was repeatedly awarded with diplomas of ENEA, has been awarded a motor vehicle ZIL-151, and a number of workers, engineers and other employees have received prizes and medals of the exhibition. 1961 was a watershed in the history of the plant. At the request of the Kostroma The Economic Council issued a decree of the USSR Council of renaming Galich repair-mechanical plant – in an excavator.