ST.-PETERSBURG, September 7 - RAPSI. The St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region Commercial Court has placed train manufacturer Vagonmash under a supervisory bankruptcy procedure, the Supreme Commercial Court has reported on its website on Friday.

The procedure has been requested by a number of companies since last fall.

Specifically, Prommonolit's application was rejected in January as the company had assigned its 17.94 million ruble ($557,000) claims to ZhK Moskovskiy.

In June, the court dropped the Epotos group's application as Vagonmash repaid its 367,000 rubles ($11,400) in debt.

By the most recent hearing on September 5, the court still had applications for Vagonmash's bankruptcy from Baltic Conditioners, Ifkur, Ford Agency, FinTorg, Marat Petrov and Kun-Dao.

The court materials do not specify which applicant requested the supervisory procedure for Vagonmash. The company's largest creditors include Sberbank with 1.416 billion rubles ($44 million) in claims and the Kiev subway, which seeks 415 million rubles ($13 million) in debt.

Established in 1874, Vagonmash is an oldest car production company in Russia. It has been part of the Dedal Group (Moscow) since 2003. It manufactures subway cars, railway carriages, tramcars, and baggage, mail and other special-purpose vehicles.