Leninets, holding

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LENINETS (212 Moskovsky Avenue), the first holding company in Russia founded in 1992 on the basis of enterprises specialising in development and manufacture of radio electronics. The company originated from three plants that had numbers instead of names, established (reorganised) by the People's Commissariat of Aircraft Industry in 1944-45 to develop and manufacture radar equipment for aircraft applications. Each plant had its own design office; the Scientific Research Institute of Radio Electronics (NIIRE) was founded on the basis of these offices in 1959 under the Ministry of Radio Industry of the USSR and housed in the building of the House of Soviets at 212 Moskovsky Avenue. After the three plants were also placed under control of the Ministry of Radio Industry of the USSR in 1965, they were renamed into Novator (formerly, number 283), Leninets (formerly, number 287), and Radiopribor (formerly, number 794). NIIRE was reorganised into the All-Russian Radio Electronics Scientific Research Institute (VNIIRES) in 1971, also known as Mars. A scientific development and production company under the same name was established in the same year; it included a new development plant in Gatchina. Novator, Radiopribor, and Leninets were united into Leninets Leningrad Production Company in 1971-73 and joined NPO Leninets Scientific Development and Production Company in 1974, VNIIRES acting as the parent enterprise. L. N. Zaykov was the first general director of the company. The company was joined by Sputnik Leningrad Production Company in 1988. Leninets was transformed into a scientific development and production foreign economic concern, abbreviated as NPVEK in 1990, and reorganised into an open joint-stock company under the same name in December 1992. Leninets was comprised of 11 scientific and design organisations, over 20 plants, building and industrial companies, commercial enterprises, after-sales service companies, air and road carriers, a pension fund, two scientific institutes, and other establishments. The holding develops and manufactures complex high-performance radio electronics and components, electrotechnical and electronic devices, telecommunication systems and equipment for railway and urban electric transport, medical equipment, and water treatment systems.

Reference: Кочешков Н. А., Турчак А. А. Очерки истории создания холдинговой компании "Ленинец": Основные науч.-техн. и произв. достижения компании в развитии авиац. радиоэлектроники (1945-1999). СПб., 2000.

V. G. Avdeev. Zaykov Lev Nikolaevich
Moskovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 212
Кочешков Н. А., Турчак А. А. Очерки истории создания холдинговой компании "Ленинец": Основные науч.-техн. и произв. достижения компании в развитии авиац. радиоэлектроники (1945-1999) СПб., 2000