Kirov Spinning and Filar Factory

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KIROV SPINNING AND FILAR FACTORY (15/9 Krasnykh Textilshchikov Street) is an open joint-stock company, the largest factory in the country producing sewing threads, and the only factory producing threads for knitting and embroidery. The factory also produces yarn for fabrics and stockinet. It was created in 1937 after a merger of a spinning factory and a filar factory. The former factory goes back to Nevskaya Paper Making Manufactory founded by L. I. Stieglitz in 1833, which specialised in making yarn, including some high-quality varieties. In 1851, the factory became the property of a joint-stock company. The latter was founded in 1888 as the Nevskaya Filar Factory, one of the few Russian thread-making factories. At the end of the 1890s, the factory was acquired by the English Filar Trust, which held a leading position on the market of Western Europe. Nevskaya Paper Making Manufactory, which supplied yarn to Nevskaya Filar Factory joined the trust in 1908. Both factories were nationalised in 1919 and merged in 1922. In 1931-37 they were separated again. The Factory was named after S. M. Kirov in 1938. In the years of the Great Patriotic war of 1941-45 the few workers who stayed at the factory produced camouflage netting, and the production of threads was renewed in 1943. The factory was reincorporated as a joint-stock company in 1994.

References: Андреев И. Г. Невские прядильщики: Крат. очерк истории прядильно-ниточ. комб. им. С. М. Кирова. Л., 1959.

V. S. Solomko. Kirov (real name Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich
Stieglitz Ludwig
Krasnogo Textilshchika St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 15/9
Андреев И. Г. Невские прядильщики: Крат. очерк истории прядильно-ниточ. комб. им. С. М. Кирова. Л., 1959