When the naval architect Valerian Bzhezinsky was visiting German shipyards in 1930–1932, during the period when Weimar Germany and the Soviet Union were cooperating most closely, he was intrigued by the high-pressure Wagner boilers being developed for the German Navy.
In the context of a period of close collaboration between Weimar Germany and the Soviet Union in the 1930s, naval architect Valerian Bzhezinsky's interest in the advanced high-pressure Wagner boilers developed for the German Navy was heightened.