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 Aerial view of the Kirov Plant in 2017 | |
Native name | Кировский завод |
|---|---|
| Company type | Joint-stock company |
| Industry | Mechanical engineering Defense industry Agricultural machinery |
| Founded | February 28, 1801 (1801-02-28) |
| Founder | Under the decree of emperorPaul I |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | CoastGulf of Finland |
Key people | General director George Semenenko |
| Products | Tractors,escalators,artillery etc |
| Revenue | $36.7 million[1] (2016) |
| $9.46 million[1] (2016) | |
| $6.57 million[1] (2016) | |
Number of employees | 5,900  |
TheKirov Plant,Kirov factory orLeningrad Kirov plant (LKZ) (Russian:Кировский завод,romanized:Kirovskiy zavod) is a majorRussianmechanical engineering andagricultural machinerymanufacturing plant inSt. Petersburg,Russia. It was established in 1789, then moved to its present site in 1801 as afoundry forcannonballs. The Kirov Plant is sometimes confused with another Leningrad heavy weapons manufacturer,Factory No. 185 (S.M. Kirov). Recently the main production of the company isKirovets heavytractors.
In 1917 the factory was an important center of theRed Guards formations.
In 1868Nikolay Putilov (1820–1880) purchased the bankrupt plant. At thePutilov works, thePutilov Company (a joint-stock holding company from 1873) initially producedrolling stock for railways. The establishment boomed during the Russian industrialization of the 1890s, with the workforce 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 producedartillery, eventually becoming a major supplier of it to theImperial Russian Army alongside thestate 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 the1905 Russian Revolution, four workers at the plant, then called 'Putilov Ironworks', were fired because of their participation in strikes duringBloody Sunday. However, the plant manager asserted that they were fired for unrelated reasons. Virtually the entire workforce of the Putilov Ironworks went on strike when the plant manager refused to accede to their requests that the workers be rehired. Sympathy strikes in other parts of the city raised the number of strikers up to 150,000 workers in 382 factories. By 21 January [O.S. 8 January] 1905, the city had no electricity and no newspapers whatsoever and all public areas were declared closed.[2][3][4]
Ships werebuilt at the Putilov works in the early 20th century. Thesubmarine tenderVolkhov (later renamedKommuna), built 1911–1915 at Putilov for theImperial Russian Navy, remained in service of theRussian Navy in the 2010s.[5][6]
In February 1917 strikes at the factory contributed to setting in motion the chain of events which led to theFebruary Revolution.[citation needed]
After theOctober Revolution of November 1917 the establishment was renamedRed Putilovite plant (zavod Krasny Putilovets) and became famous for its manufacture of the first Soviet tractors, Fordzon-Putilovets, based on theFordson tractor.
In the wake of the December 1934 assassination ofSergey Kirov, theLeningrad Communist Party head, the plant was renamedKirov Factory No. 100.
DuringWorld War II the plant manufactured theKV-1 tank.
In 1962 the factory produced theKirovets K-700 tractor.[7]
The Kirov Plant was de-listed from theMoscow Exchange in 2011.[8]
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