In 1902 Ivan Aleksandrovich Shorin founded a boiler and shipbuilding plant in Gorokhovets. The plant specialized in the production of various metal tanks, building structures (trusses and columns), agricultural equipment and metal vessels.
In October 1902 Shorin laid down an oil barge for Ter-Akopov, a businessman and petroleum industrialist from Nizhny Novgorod. In the spring of 1903 the barge was put afloat. It had the following dimensions: a length of 350 feet (107 m), a width of 48 feet (14.6 m), and a side height of 10 feet (3 m). The tonnage of the water displacement was approximately 150,000-165,000 pounds (2,600 tons). In terms of construction features it was quite similar to the barges that were developed by Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov in 1882-1883.
In 1907, when Dmitry Vasilyevich Sirotkin decided to create his famous barge ‘Marfa Posadnitsa’, he ordered it to the Shorin plant according to his own drawings. Shorin honourably fulfilled the task, after which he built a series of gigantic barges of the same type to the order of Sirotkin, and then for the association ‘Volga’ and the ‘Nobel Brotherhood Partnership’.
In October 1902 Shorin laid down an oil barge for Ter-Akopov, a businessman and petroleum industrialist from Nizhny Novgorod. In the spring of 1903 the barge was put afloat. It had the following dimensions: a length of 350 feet (107 m), a width of 48 feet (14.6 m), and a side height of 10 feet (3 m). The tonnage of the water displacement was approximately 150,000-165,000 pounds (2,600 tons). In terms of construction features it was quite similar to the barges that were developed by Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov in 1882-1883.
In 1907, when Dmitry Vasilyevich Sirotkin decided to create his famous barge ‘Marfa Posadnitsa’, he ordered it to the Shorin plant according to his own drawings. Shorin honourably fulfilled the task, after which he built a series of gigantic barges of the same type to the order of Sirotkin, and then for the association ‘Volga’ and the ‘Nobel Brotherhood Partnership’.
