Mytishchi Machine Works was founded in 1897 in the Moscow region Mytishchi as Carriage Works. The first products were passenger and freight cars for the Northern Railway in Russia. In 1903 began the production of trams for the city of Moscow. The first electric passenger train in Russia were made in 1929 on the Mytishschinsky train factory in 1934 — the first cars for the Metro of Moscow.
In 1947 the plant started a new direction for him — the production of dump trucks.
As a result, have developed and rapidly developing two main areas of activity of the plant:
Manufacture of subway cars;
Manufacture of dump trucks.
The test station sites for sea trials provide high assurance of product quality. The union has its own rail and truck access roads with access to the trunk line. Design techniques carried out by three specialized engineering firm, wich employs experienced and highly skilled designers.
From 2005 "Metrovagonmash" is part of the "Transmashholding", Russia's largest company in the market of transport engineering. Group companies manufacture and shunting locomotives, industrial and long-haul locomotives, freight and passenger cars, subway cars and trains, locomotive and marine diesel engines, turnouts, traction units, car casting and other products.