Shock absorbers for light rail-vehicles are designed on the basis of specific orders from the leading foreign and domestic manufacturers in railway engineering branch such as: Dellner Couplers, Voith Turbo Scharfenberg, PESA Bydgoszcz, Solaris etc. The shock absorbers are used in automatic central couplers and crash devices (operating in a parallel system). Their design enables easy adaptation to various applications.