LOMO
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Petrograd, Russia (1914) | |
| Headquarters | St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| Products | Lenses, medical equipment, consumer still and movie cameras, lenses, professional sound recorders for motion-picture production |
| Revenue | $56.1 million[1] (2017) |
| $8.82 million[1] (2017) | |
| -$5.82 million[1] (2017) | |
| Total assets | $237 million[1] (2017) |
| Total equity | $26.2 million[1] (2017) |
| Website | lomo.ru/english
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LOMO (
Its
History
The company was founded in 1914 in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg). It was established as a French – Russian limited company to produce lenses and cameras. It manufactured gun sights during World War I. In 1919, it was nationalised. In 1921, the factory was named the Factory of State Optics, G.O.Z. In 1925, camera production was resumed, and several lens designs tested between 1925 and 1929. Further reorganisations of the Soviet optical factories in several stages finally resulted in that the factory at Leningrad became GOMZ, the Russian Optical and Mechanical Factory.
In the transition period 1932 to 1935 a copy of the
Known as GOMZ (State Optical-Mechanical Plant), the company was transformed under the direction of Mikhail Panfilov, who united several industries and founded the LOMO Association in 1962. In 1990 - 1997 Ilya Klebanov was the Director General of LOMO Association.
The company went public in 1993, and was renamed LOMO PLC; it is traded on the
References
External links
- Official website
- LOMO America, Inc.
- USSRPhoto.com Wiki catalog of LOMO manufactured cameras. (See GOMZ/LOMO sections)
- Dowling, Stephen (2012-11-21). "Did the Lomo camera save film photography?". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2012-11-21.