Kirov Plant
Tractors, escalators, artillery etc | |
Revenue | $36.7 million[1] (2016) |
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$9.46 million[1] (2016) | |
$6.57 million[1] (2016) | |
Number of employees | 5,900 |
The Kirov Plant, Kirov Factory or Leningrad Kirov Plant (LKZ) (Russian: Кировский завод, .
In 1917 the factory was an important center of the Red Guards formations.
History
Putilov works
In 1868 Nikolay Putilov (1820-1880) purchased the bankrupt plant; at the Putilov Works the Putilov Company (a joint-stock holding company from 1873) initially produced rolling stock for railways. The establishment boomed during the Russian industrialization of the 1890s, with the work-force quadrupling in a decade, reaching 12,400 in 1900. The factory traditionally[when?] produced goods for the Russian government, with railway products accounting for more than half of its total output. Starting in 1900 it also produced artillery, eventually becoming a major supplier of it to the Imperial Russian Army alongside the state arsenals. By 1917 it grew into a giant enterprise that was by far the largest in the city of St. Petersburg.
In December 1904, during the antecedent to the
Ships were built at the Putilov works in the early 20th century. The submarine tender Volkhov (later renamed Kommuna), built 1911–1915 at Putilov for the Imperial Russian Navy, remained in service of the Russian Navy in the 2010s.[5][6]
In February 1917
Red Putilovite Plant
After the
Kirov factory
In the wake of the December 1934 assassination of
During
In 1962 the factory produced the Kirovets K-700 tractor.[7]
The Kirov Plant was de-listed from the Moscow Exchange in 2011.[8]
Directors of Kirov Plant
- 1917-1919 - Vasilyev, Anton Efimovich, the first "red" director
- 1930-1936 - Ots, Karl Martovich
- 1938-1941 - Zaltsman, Isaac Moiseevich
- 1941-1943 - Dlugach, Moisey Abramovich
- 1945-1948 - Kizima, Alexander Leontyevich
- 1950-1954 - Smirnov, Nikolai Ivanovich
- 1954-1964 - Isaev, Ivan Sergeevich
- 1964-1972 - Lyubchenko, Alexander Alexandrovich
- 1972-1975 - Ulybin, Vasily Ivanovich
- 1975-1976 - Belt, Oleg Nikolaevich
- 1976-1984 - Muranov, Boris Alexandrovich
- 1984-1987 - Chernov, Stanislav Pavlovich
- 1987-2005 - Semenenko, Pyotr Georgievich
- 2005-2022 - Semenenko, Georgy Petrovich
- from 2022 - Serebryako, Sergey Alexandrovich
See also
References
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- ^ "The first day of the strike on the Putilov factory". www.visit-petersburg.ru. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
- ^ "Short term cause - Bloody Sunday - Causes of the 1905 Revolution - Higher History Revision". BBC Bitesize. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
- OCLC 7574237.
- ^ https://wiki.lesta.ru/ru/Navy:%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0_(1913)
- ^ "Спасательное судно 'Коммуна' Черноморского Флота" ["Rescue ship 'Kommuna' Black Sea Fleet"]. flot.sevastopol.info (in Russian). 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
- ^ katya (2016-06-13). "MTZ K744 Kirovets – 435 hp". www.mtzequipment.com. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
- ^ "Кировский завод ушел с биржи". Газета "Коммерсантъ С-Петербург". 10 July 2011. p. 16. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ISBN 0-521-46619-9.
- Workers Unrest and the Bolshevik Response in 1919 written by Vladimir Brovkin in Slavic Review, Volume 49, Issue 3, (Autumn 1990) page 358-361
External links
- Official website
- Media related to Kirov Plant (factory, Saint Petersburg) at Wikimedia Commons
- St Petersburg Tractor Plant Subsidiary that builds tractors and agricultural machinery.
- Kirov Plant @ globalsecurity.org (plant's military production)