Russian Wrench?

[Papaw]

In a chain pawn shop Saturday, finding nothing I wanted, I spied this wrench on a shelf far away from the others.
Bought it for a dollar, just so I didn't go home empty-handed.
A metric DOE in 17 and 19 MM.
Anyone recognize it? I have a friend in the Ukraine that has helped me translate a few times, so I might enlist her help.

[kxxr]

That is very cool, but I only recognize the numbers. Looking forward to the translation if one can be done. What I'd really like to know is the story of how it got where it did. Of course we always wonder that, but we don't often see 'em with markings like that.

[john k]

I have a Russian/English dictionary some place, but would put money on it being (Tool Factory no.2, or Moscow Tool and Die.).  A lot of imaginative names there were not. 

[keykeeper]

The long word is the russian equivalent of chrome vanadium.

At least that is what I could glean from using wikipedia to translate the individual letters.

gh-r-o-m-o-v-a-n-a-d-k-k is the letters/sounds of each character according to what I found.

Not surprising, as that looks a lot like a hazet/heyco/etc type wrench in style.

[Steve-o]

Nice find.I have never seen anything like that around my neck of the woods. :)

[Papaw]

Just got a reply from my friend in The Ukraine. She says it does say Chrome Vanadium.

[Carl]

It doesn't look all that different than the tool kit wrenches that come with Chinese machine tools.

[rusty]

>It doesn't look all that different ...

It is a DIN pattern , they all look the same, have for years....

The [B) on the reverse is probably the makers mark, but I dunno who it is....

[Papaw]

It's either a B or a W, depending on how you look at it. It would be very cool to know who made it.

[johnsironsanctuary]

I asked my Neighbor, Zhenia, who moved here from Vladivostok what he new about it. He emailed back info you already know. "This is usual wrench made from chrom-vanadium. I remember me holding such wrench in my hands. "

[fflintstone]

FYI google translator works great.

[johnsironsanctuary]

Yes, FF, the translator does work well.

'If a man can not buy more tools, he might as well be dead.'

[Wrenchmensch]

I read chrome vanadium first time through.

[strelnik]

The logo whoich looks like a 3 inside a B  is actually two Russian letters, one for the Russian word  BOCTOK,  in English script "Vostok", meaning "east"  Like the city of Vladivostok and part of the BOCTOK line of manufactured goods which included tools, precision tools and many wrist watches of various types.

The work which begins with what looks like a 3 is actually the Russian word  " завод  "  aka ZAVOD, meaning "factory" 

The Russians were not very original in naming things.

The ZIL limo came from the   ZAVOD IMENA LENINA   aka the  FACTORY NAMED AFTER LENIN

The GAZ truck came from the   Gorkiy Avtomobiliy Zavod  meaning Gorkiy Auto Factory


A quick story:

One I went on a semi-official visit after the Berlin Wall fell to a former East German state.  The governor beamed with pride as he showed us his new marketing campaign to excite consumers.
It consisted of two posters:

" Buy Orange juice! It's good for you!"   and the winner.....

" Buy concrete! It's what stuff is made out of !"

Umm, after you buy this stuff, what do you do with it?  Nobody knew.

[Wrenchmensch]

My observation of structures in the little town of Diedenbergen, in the State of Hesse, in Western Germany, was that they were all masonry structures with lots of concrete in them. I stayed in Diedenbergen 4 - 5 times for a week each time and had lots of opportunities to observe the houses, barns and few commercial buildings there. Being masonry structures in a largely earthquake-free zone, these buildings last for centuries. Concrete is the material of choice, with clay tiles and flue materials second.