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Kornilovsky Porcelain Plant
KORNILOVSKY PORCELAIN PLANT (59 Polyustrovsky Avenue), a public joint-stock company, producer of high-quality electrical products. Founded in 1835 by M.V. Kornilova, widow of a merchant involved in the crockery trade
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Krasnaya Zarya, plant
KRASNAYA ZARYA (60 Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Avenue), open joint-stock company, for many years was one of the leading companies in the area of development and production of telephone equipment
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Krasnoe Znamya, factory
KRASNOE ZNAMYA (25 Krasnogo Kursanta Street), open joint-stock company, enterprise manufacturing knitted goods. It was founded in 1855 by French merchant I.O. Natus, in 1866 it was bought by German merchant F.V. Kersten, after whose death (1884) E.P
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Krasny Treugolnik, plant
KRASNY TREUGOLNIK (138 Obvodny Canal Embankment), an open joint-stock company, an enterprise making footwear from polymer materials. It was founded in 1860 by Hamburg merchant F
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Krasny Vyborzhets, Plant
KRASNY VYBORZHETS (12 Sverdlovskaya Embankment), open joint-stock company, one of the leading enterprises in the country manufacturing non-ferrous metals. It was founded in 1857 by F. F. Gauch, was later bought by merchant K. F
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Krasovsky M.V. (1851-1911), entrepreneur, public and political figure
KRASOVSKY Mikhail Vasilievich (1851-1911), public and political figure, entrepreneur, privy counsellor (1893). Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Kiev University (1871), from 1872 in St
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Lenexpo
LENEXPO (103 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island), open joint-stock company (from 1993), leading Russian exhibition company. Founded in 1968 in preparation for the International INRYBPROM exhibition
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Leningrad Metallurgic Plant (LMP)
LENINGRAD METALLURGIC PLANT (LMP) (18 Sverdlovskaya Embankment), open joint-stock company, the largest pipe-building enterprise of the country. It was founded in 1857 by merchant S.N. Rasteryaev, St
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Mutual Credit Societies
MUTUAL CREDIT SOCIETIES, institutions founded on a partnership basis to grant short-term loans. A member of a mutual credit society would undertake obligations for a specified amount
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Nevsky Plant
NEVSKY PLANT (51 Obukhovskoy Oborony Avenue) open joint-stock company, an engineering plant, a leading supplier of equipment for gas pipelines, metallurgy, and chemical industry. Founded by mining engineers P. F. Semyannikov and V. A
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Nobel Family, entrepreneurs
NOBEL FAMILY, entrepreneurs from Sweden. Emmanuel Nobel (1801-72), a professor of descriptive geometry and engineering at Stockholm Technological Institute, came to Russia in 1837, and his family moved to St. Petersburg in 1842
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Nobility State Land Bank
NOBILITY STATE LAND BANK (12 Admiralteyskaya Embankment). Founded in 1885 to support landownership, the bank was the most important link of the mortgage chain. The bank's activities covered the European part of Russia except for the Grand Duchy of
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Northern Cable, the factory
Northern Cable (40 Kozhevennaya Line) was an open joint-stock company, the oldest factory in the country dealing in design and manufacturing of cable and conductors, mainly of complicated design
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Northern Shipyard Plant
NORTHERN SHIPYARD PLANT (6 Korabelnaya Street) is an open joint-stock company, a large hi-tech factory building military ships, commercial ships, and complex nautical equipment
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Obukhov P. M. (1820-1869), entrepreneur
OBUKHOV Pavel Matveevich (1820-1869), metallurgist, Actual Civil Counsellor (1868). Obukhov graduated from the Corps of Mining Engineers Institute in 1843. Serving at Urals plants, he developed a technology for producing high-quality crucible steel
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Obukhovsky Plant
OBUKHOVSKY PLANT (129 Obukhovskoy Oborony Avenue), one of the largest defense sector companies of the country. Founded by engineers P. M. Obukhov and N. I. Putilov and merchant S. G
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Pal K. Y. (1845-1910), entrepreneur
PAL Karl Yakovlevich (1845, St. Petersburg - 1910, St. Petersburg), entrepreneur, hereditary honorary citizen, first-guild merchant in 1884. After he left Annenschule in 1863 he devoted himself to business activities
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Pawnshops (entry)
PAWNSHOPS, credit institutions granting loans against movable property. The first pawnshops were founded in St. Petersburg in 1729 as Emperor Peter the Great commanded that the Mint Office should grant interest-bearing loans against gold and silver
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Printing Yard, a Printing house
PRINTING YARD (15 Chkalovsky Avenue) is a printing house, the largest producer of books and journals in the North-Western Region of Russia. It originates from the printing house of the Commission For Developing Laws established in 1817; from 1882
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Proletarsky Zavod, Manufacturing Association
PROLETARSKY ZAVOD (3 Dudko Street), an open joint-stock company, the largest manufacturer of ship, energy, and general machinery in the north-west region of Russia
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Putilov N.I., (1820-1880), entrepreneur
PUTILOV Nikolay Ivanovich (1820-1880, St. Petersburg), entrepreneur, engineer. After he completed Officer’s Classes at the Naval School in 1840, he worked as a lecturer and served in the Navy Department until his resignation in 1857
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Putilov А.I. (1867-after 1837), entrepreneur
PUTILOV Alexey Ivanovich (1867 - after 1937), statesman, entrepreneur, financier, Actual Civil Counsellor. Graduating from St. Petersburg University with a law degree in 1889, he served in the Ministry of Finance from 1890
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Ratkov-Rozhnov Family, entrepreneurs and houseowners
RATKOV-ROZHNOV FAMILY, a noble family, state officials, entrepreneurs and houseowners. Close ties to St. Petersburg were kept by V. A. Ratkov-Rozhnov and Alexander Nikolaevich Ratkov-Rozhnov (about 1859-?) who graduated from St
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Russian Bank for Foreign Trade
RUSSIAN BANK FOR FOREIGN TRADE, a private joint-stock bank. Founded in 1871, the bank shared the 3d and 4th places with Azovsko-Donskoy Bank before World War I of 1914-18. It had 76 branches
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Russian Bank of Commerce and Industry
RUSSIAN BANK OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (called Russian Commercial Bank of Commerce and Industry before 1907), a joint-stock commercial bank, opened in 1890. It was among the largest banks by 1914
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Russian Diesel Engine Plant
RUSSIAN DIESEL ENGINE PLANT (17 Vyborgskaya Embankment) is an open joint-stock company, the largest Russian plant manufacturing Diesel engines, the leading company of this branch
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Russian-American Company
RUSSIAN-AMERICAN COMPANY, a group of entrepreneurs on the north-west coast of North America, the Aleutians, the Kurils, and other islands, and an organisation established by the government for consolidating and expanding Russia’s possessions in
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Russian-Asian Bank
RUSSIAN-ASIAN BANK, a joint-stock commercial bank. It was founded in 1910 by merging the Northern Bank founded in 1901 and the Russian-Chinese Bank founded in 1895
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Sadovaya Street
SADOVAYA STREET (from 1923 to 1944 - Third of July Street, the section from Italyanskaya Street up to Ekaterininsky Canal; from the 1730s to 1887, it was known as Bolshaya Sadovaya Street; the part from Moika River Embankment to Italyanskaya Street
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San Galli F. K. (1824-1908), entrepreneur
SAN GALLI Franz Karlovich (Franz Friedrich Wilhelm) (1824-1908, St. Petersburg), entrepreneur and public figure, Actual Civil Counsellor (1889), and honorary process engineer (1888). Native of Germany, he graduated from a gymnasium in Stettin
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