Харьков локомотив зауыты тарихы және қазіргі жағдайы

Ukrainian state owned company
At its height during the Soviet era, the factory employed 60,000 of Kharkov's 1.5 million inhabitants.

The factory was renamed several times. First originally named in Russian, English language sources variously refer to it as factory, plant, or works, though now use the Ukrainian translation of the word zavod (works).

The Kharkov Locomotive Factory (KhPZ) built about 20% of the Russian Empire's railway engines. After the Russian Revolution and the establishment of the Soviet government in Ukraine, the factory was put to work designing and building tractors and, after 1927, tanks. The Leningrad's Bolshevik Factory and the Kharkov's KhPZ in 1929 became the first two Soviet tank factories to be modernized with German assistance under the Treaty of Rapallo, 1922.

A tank design bureau was established in the factory in 1928, one of several which would be responsible for some of the most successful tanks ever built, and eventually become the Morozov Design Bureau. The KhPZ designed and produced twenty five T 24 tanks, then nearly eight thousand BT fast tanks. It also built a handful of multi turreted T 35 tanks. Shortly before the German invasion of the Soviet Union the KhPZ started series production of the T 34, the most produced tank of World War II. Series production began in June 1940 in Kharkov, and later in the Stalingrad Tractor Plant and Krasnoye Sormovo Shipbuilding Plant. In 1941, due to German advances, the factory and design shops were evacuated to the Ural mountains; Fulfilling the contract was difficult — the distributed nature of Soviet military industry forced reliance on Russian factories for parts, and Russian political interference forced the development of local capabilities, resulting in the T 84 tank design. Like many Ukrainian industries, Malyshev was not allowed to negotiate contracts directly with foreign governments, but had to rely on Ukrspetsexport, a government arms trading company. Although Malyshev was denied exporter status in July 1999, it was given this status by decree of President Leonid Kuchma in November of that year, a move seen to be an election gift to Kharkiv Oblast. Malyshev joined as the leader of thirty four companies to form an export consortium called Ukrainian Armored Vehicles. Malyshev has demonstrated main battle tanks to Turkey, Greece, and Malaysia, and has entered into a contract to supply engines for Chinese made Al Khalid tanks for Pakistan. In September 2000, a deal was signed to modernize Soviet made tanks and armoured personnel carries for the United Arab Emirates. The Malyshev factory also manufactures parts for Bizon, a Polish producer of agricultural combines. In April 2009, the Malyshev Factory signed a contract to upgrade 29 T 64B [Т 64Б] tanks to T 64BM "Bulat" [Т 64БМ "Булат"] standard, for the Ukrainian Army for ₴200 million ($25.1 million). Ten upgraded tanks were delivered in 2010, and 19 planned to be delivered in 2011. The T 64B tanks being upgraded were originally produced at Kharkov in 1980. In 2012 the Malyshev Factory had a sizable tank scrapping operation. Since the outbreak of the War in Donbass the factory's main focus became supplying new and rehabilitated tanks to the Ukrainian Army. The factory was struck by Russian missiles in March 2022, December 2022, and February 2023.

Notable diesel engines from Kharkov include the 1472 kW 2D100 (used in the TE3 locomotive) and the 2208 kW 10D100 (used in the TE10 locomotive). Both were 10 cylinder opposed piston two stroke diesel engines of the 1950s. Another engine in this series, the 12 cylinder 9D100 was less successful and was not widely used.