Kornilovsky Porcelain Plant

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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. Her sons Peter Savinovich, Mikhail Savinovich, Ivan Savinovich, Vasily Savinovich, and Yakov Savinovich later joined the business, and the company bore the name Kornilov Brothers. The plant produced tableware, decorative porcelain, and fulfilled orders from the Imperial and Grand Princes courts. Artists collaborating with the plant included E.M. Bem, I.Y. Bilibin and N.N. Karazin. The plant's products were exported to America, Western Europe and Persia, and awarded prizes at Russian and International exhibitions. In the 1860s, the enterprise began producing chemical glassware and medicine bottles, as well as insulators for telegraph and power lines. After October 1917, the plant was nationalised. From 1924, it functioned as the Leningrad Proletarian Porcelain Plant and specialised in the production of electro-technical ceramics. The plant has developed and mastered the production of various types of insulators and voltage classes, as well as high-voltage apparatuses for the protection of power lines. In 1941-45, the plant fulfilled military orders. In the post-war years, insulators and dischargers of an ultra-high voltage class were produced; in the 1970s, they were replaced by excess-voltage suppressors. In 1969, the factory grew into the Elektrokeramika Scientific Development and Production Association. In 1994, the enterprise, called Kornilovsky Porcelain Plant, was closed as an association and passed into the ownership of a joint-stock company. Today the plant produces high-impact stick-pedestal insulators, and various apparatuses for the protection of power equipment, power lines, substations, industrial enterprises, and railways. The plant supports the Kornilovsky China Fund, established in 1999 to revive the production of fine china.

References: Знаменов В., Мухин В. Феномен второго фарфорового производства в Петербурге // Петергоф: Из истории дворцов и коллекций: Альм. СПб., 1992. С. 109-127.

V. S. Solomko. Bem Elizaveta Merkurievna (nee Endagurova)
Bilibin Ivan Yakovlevich
Karazin Nikolay Nikolaevich
Kornilov Ivan Savinovich
Kornilov Mikhail Savinovich
Kornilov Peter Savinovich
Kornilov Vasily Savinovich
Kornilov Yakov Savinovich
Kornilova M.V.
Polyustrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 59
Знаменов В., Мухин В. Феномен второго фарфорового производства в Петербурге // Петергоф: Из истории дворцов и коллекций: Альм. СПб., 1992