Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Siemens exited Russia in May 2022, with Sinara Group taking full control a month later.

[1] The manufacturing facilities are based at the Ural Railway Engineering Plant in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, which was incorporated into the Sinara Group in 2004.

[2] In October 2004, the plant began collaboration with RZD with the aim of production of electric freight locomotives.

[3] The Ural Railway Engineering Plant was formed to locate a DC electric freight locomotive production site within Russian territory; formerly, during the Soviet era DC electric locomotive production in the USSR had been located in Tbilisi in Georgia.

[6] The joint venture included a technology transfer agreement, with electrical traction components manufactured at Siemens' St. Petersburg plant "Сименс Электропривод".