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The Kirov Plant, Kirov Factory or Leningrad Kirov Plant (LKZ) (Russian: Кировский завод, romanized: Kirovskiy zavod) is a major Russian mechanical engineering and agricultural machinery manufacturing plant in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Mar 6, 2021 · The Kirov Plant in St Petersburg is home to the main production facilities, as well as warehouses and a port where goods are sent and received from all over the world every day. Kirovsky Zavod provides services for many clients, including large Russian and foreign industrial companies such as Rosatom, Gazprom, Rosneft, Severstal, Surgutneftegas ...
Oct 8, 2023 · The Kirov Plant, also known as Kirov Factory or Leningrad Kirov Plant (LKZ), holds a prominent place in Russian industrial history. Situated in St. Petersburg, Russia, this major mechanical engineering and agricultural machinery manufacturing plant has a rich legacy dating back to the 18th century. This comprehensive article explores the ...
The Kirov Plant, Kirov Factory or Leningrad Kirov Plant (LKZ) is a major Russian mechanical engineering and agricultural machinery manufacturing plant in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was established in 1789, then moved to its present site in 1801 as a foundry for cannonballs.
- In The Ring
- On Thin Ice
- To The Aid of The Besieged
- Extensive Work
- Leningrad Help
- To Destroy at Any Cost
On September 8, 1941, troops of the Army Group North captured the city of Shlisselburg on the shore of Lake Ladoga, thereby closing the ring of the blockade on land around the second largest city of the Soviet Union. About half a million Soviet troops, almost all of the Baltic Fleet’s forces and up to three million civilians were trapped in the enc...
With the approach of the cold weather, city authorities and the Soviet military command began to think how communication across Lake Ladoga would be carried out in the winter. This was the most important question for the already starving Leningrad, as planes alone simply could not cope with supplying such a large metropolis. Already in November, te...
Without wasting time on the ‘Road of Life’, or as it was officially called - the ‘Military Road No. 101’ - a horse-drawn vehicle with supplies headed toward Leningrad. Following it, trucks began to test the dangerous route. Lieutenant General Feofan Lagunov, who served at the time as head of the rear of the Leningrad Front and actually became the o...
In order to ensure that tons of food could flow uninterruptedly to Leningrad, an enormous infrastructure was created around the ‘Road of Life’. “The woodlands, in some places right up to the lake, were humming with the multitude of voices, the clatter of axes and the ringing of saws,” Kondratyev noted: “They built access roads, cut down wood for su...
Surprisingly, goods were not only sent to exhausted Leningrad, but also from it. Some of the Kirov Plant’s facilities and specialists were not evacuated to the Urals and continued to produce KV heavy tanks literally near the front lines. Since the enemy held the city tightly under siege, but made no serious attempts to storm it, they were sent to o...
For the Germans, the ‘Road of Life’ was like a bone in the throat. It strongly interfered with their plan to starve the city to death and was regularly attacked by aircraft and artillery. The enemy mostly hit not individual targets, but areas, trying to break up the ice. The resulting ice-holes, covered by a crust of ice and just a little covered w...
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Dec 16, 2023 · Officially, from October 6, 1941, the enterprise became known as the Kirov Plant of the People's Commissariat of the Tank Industry. Even after the end of the war, for twenty years, Chelyabinsk residents produced their products under the brand name of the Kirov plant.
KIROVSKY PLANT (47 Stachek Avenue), a joint-stock company, an enterprise manufacturing a comprehensive range of metallurgy and machinery products; one of the biggest in Russia. It was founded in 1801, when Kronstadt Iron Foundry, which mostly produced artillery shells, was moved to the Peterhof Road.
