Karl Marx Machine-Building Association (formerly Novy Lessner)

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KARL MARX MACHINE-BUILDING ASSOCIATION (66 Bolshoy Sampsonyevsky Avenue), open joint-stock company (since 1992), enterprise producing equipment for artificial fibre and tillage tools production. It was founded in 1898 as the 2nd Mechanic Plant of Lessner Brothers (later - Iron and Boiler Foundry of Lessner Joint-Stock Society, then Novy Lessner). The plant produced forge-fires, gasoline and kerosene engines, gas generator plants, steaming machines, boilers, and since 1914 - artillery shells, mines, and ship equipment. Since 1922 Karl Marx State Mechanical Plant produced spinning and rotating machines for cotton and wool. In 1925 the first weaving semiautomatic machine, Nortrop was created for the production of cotton fabrics; spinning, carding, and rotating machinery for cotton, flax and wool were being produced. In 1941-45 the plant produced ammunition, parts for machine guns and katyushas. Manufacturing of textile machines was restarted In 1944, and the production of equipment for manufacturing artificial leather and synthetic fibres was mastered later. In the 1960-80s the plant was a part of a machine-building union, specialising in manufacturing equipment for production of chemical fibres and equipping textile and shoeware factories. Since 1992 the plant has designed and produced ploughs of various types and modifications. In 2002 it became a part of a special design bureau, and a number of affiliated enterprises were created instead of the former workshops.

References: Прусьян Л. Ф., Столпнер Б. Е. Эстафета поколений: История Ленингр. з-да им. Карла Маркса. Л., 1975; Грязнов Б. З. Крутые рубежи. Л., 1982.

T. V. Kovaleva. Lessner Gustav A.
Marx Karl
Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 66
Прусьян Л. Ф., Столпнер Б. Е. Эстафета поколений: История Ленингр. з-да им. Карла Маркса. Л., 1975
Грязнов Б. З. Крутые рубежи. Л., 1982