The steel way to the stars. The production of railway equipment at Druzhovsky in the Donetsk region of Ukraine started in 1898. From 1945 mining locomotives were produced, but the factory is now famous for its explosion proof battery locomotives used in the chemical and space industry; locomotives of types T30, 11T125 and 11T186 haul rockets to the launch sites. This is a well produced publication with 47 colour and monochrome photographs and 6 line drawings. The text is Russian with comprehensive summaries in good English and German. 56 pages A4, sb.