Electric Apparatus Plant

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ELECTRIC APPARATUS PLANT (3-7, Twenty-Fourth Line of Vasilievsky Island) is an open joint-stock company, the first plant in the country for design and production of machinery for electric power stations (including nuclear power stations) and power lines. It was established in 1877 by the Pulman brothers as the cast iron and copper mechanical and boiler-manufacturing enterprise. In 1910, it was purchased by Schuckert and Co. Russian joint-stock company. In 1913 the plant was transferred into the ownership of Siemens-Schuckert company. In 1911 the enterprise was renamed Plant Of Military And Naval Devices, specialising in electrotechnical industry. After October 1917 the plant was nationalised and in 1922 renamed Electric Apparatus. Until 1925 the plant worked with considerable interruptions. The plant was revived in the course of the electrification program, which caused great demand for high-power equipment. The Electric Apparatus produced oil breaks, internal and external disconnecting switches, transformers for electric power stations, electric grids, metallurgical industrial enterprises, and the Moscow metro system. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, a part of the equipment was evacuated, the remaining equipment was used for making shells for Katyushas, mines, and grenades. After its reconstruction completed by 1949, the plant resumed manufacturing of electric machinery, including the machinery for variable natural conditions, thus contributing to emergence of this industry trend on other enterprises of the country. Today Electric Apparatus produces gas-insulated switches, line switches, air circuit breakers, generating-station circuit breakers, gas-insulated and other types of measuring transformers, and spare parts. The products of Electric Apparatus have been installed in all Russian and numerous foreign power grids.

V. S. Solomko. Schuckert
Simens Karl Fedorovich
the Pulmans
24th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 7
24th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
24th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 5