It was designed by Yakov Modestovich Gakkel and built by the Putilov Plant and the Baltic Shipyard in Petrograd (St. Petersburg, Russia).

After trials, the locomotive worked on the Moscow-Kursk line but spent a lot of time out of service.

It was withdrawn in 1927, after covering 25,000 miles, and was then put to work as a mobile generator.

The locomotive is preserved at the Russian Railway Museum in Saint Petersburg.

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