Elektrosila Plant

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ELEKTROSILA (139 Moskovsky Prospect), an open joint-stock company from 1992, the largest power engineering plant in Russia. Founded in 1898, it was a unit of Siemens-Galske Company, situated at 34 First Line, Vasilievsky Island, and till 1911 manufactured power equipment for industry, railways, and urban transport. The plant belonged to Siemens-Schuckert Joint-Stock Company from 1912. Nationalised in 1922, it was renamed into Elektrosila in 1922 and into Kirov Plant in 1934. The enterprise was a major supplier of electrical equipment in the 1920s and the1930s including turbine-driven and hydraulic generators and electrical machines, as well as transformers, rheostats, and mercury rectifiers. After the Great Patriotic War began, the plant started manufacturing mines, shells, mortars, and electric torches and repairing military equipment. It resumed the manufacture of electric equipment in 1943 to restore power stations and enterprises in the regions that had been freed from the Nazis. During the post-war period, Elektrosila developed and put into operation more powerful electrical machines and complicated devices. Generators rated at 200, 300, 500, 800, 1000, and 1200 MW have been developed at the plant to be used by 80% of heating plants, 90% of hydroelectric stations, and all nuclear power stations in Russia. Elektrosila also manufactured electric engines for marine, industrial, and transport applications. Its products were exported to 87 countries by the end of the 20th century. The company continues developing and manufacturing turbine-driven and hydraulic generators of various capacity and electrical machines and providing a wide range of services from repairing and upgrading equipment to supplying parts, units, and materials.

Reference: Куликов Н. В., Струженцов Д. И. Электросила: История ленингр. произв. об-ния "Электросила" им. С. М. Кирова. Л., 1985; Пинский Г. Б. Гидрогенераторостроение на "Электросиле" // Наука, промышленность, сельское хозяйство и культура в Санкт-Петербурге и Ленинградской области на пороге XXI века. СПб., 2000. Т. 3. С. 193-200.

V. S. Solomko. Halske Johann Georg
Kirov (real name Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich
Simens Karl Fedorovich
Moskovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 139
Куликов Н. В., Струженцов Д. И. Электросила: История ленингр. произв. об-ния "Электросила" им. С. М. Кирова. Л., 1985
Пинский Г. Б. Гидрогенераторостроение на "Электросиле" // Наука, промышленность, сельское хозяйство и культура в Санкт-Петербурге и Ленинградской области на пороге XXI века. СПб., 2000 1898