Elecon

1939-1949

By order of the People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry of the USSR No. 64 of March 25, 1939, the Kazan Heat Exchange Devices Plant (TOP) ^[2] was created on the basis of the calorifer production, which produced heating appliances for the shops of the nearby complex of Kazan aircraft plants and for housing workers ^[3] .

The production area of ​​the organized plant was then 1,556 m². It employed 170 people. Director of the plant was appointed Vladimir Petrovich Golovanov ^[2] .

Soon, the People's Commissariat approved a project to expand production and construction of a new factory building with an area of ​​5000 m². By the end of 1940, the volume of output increased 2.5 times ^[2] .

During the Great Patriotic War, many factory workers were called up to the front. The factory launched the production of military products: radiators for tanks and cars, containers for cartridges, rings for hand grenades, flameless burners for heating aircraft and tank engines, as well as other types of products. During these years, the plant was led by Hasan Gagudzovich Datiev. The volume of products in this period increased by 3.5 times ^[2] .

Also, a special laboratory was organized at the enterprise for the manufacture of continuous light composition for the navigation devices of aircraft, tanks and ships. The development and manufacture of phosphor was carried out under the guidance of academicians V. G. Khlopin and S. I. Vavilov ^[2] .

In the post-war years, the plant began producing products necessary for the restoration of the national economy: scaffolding, wheelbarrows, agricultural machinery spare parts, metal fuel barrels, air heaters and other products. During this period, V. P. Golovanov, who returned from the front, again headed it ^[2] .

1950—1958

On July 17, 1950, it was decided to redesign the plant to produce new products - electrical connectors . Ivan Nikolayevich Maksimov is appointed as the director of the enterprise ^[2] .

At Plant No. 371 MAP, as it was then called, the material and technical base was created for the mass production of plug connectors. Here foundry, plastic, mechanical production were organized. The plant became the founder of the connector industry in the USSR, and their largest producer. To develop new types of connectors on the territory of the plant, the Kazan Design Bureau of Plug Connectors (KKBShR), subsequently the Kazan Research Institute of Cylindrical Connectors (KNIICS) ^[2], operated.

Since the enterprise could not fully meet the growing needs of the USSR national economy in connectors, with the patronage of its leadership, and with the participation of specialists, over the next 20 years new plants were organized in the country - Kharkov, Cherkess, Jalal-Abad, Izobilnensky and others who began production of connectors developed by the Kazan plant. In the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , the Urusinsky branch of the plant was created (later the Electroconnector plant) for the production of high-sealed connectors based on glass-metal solder ^[2] .

In 1954, a resolution was adopted by the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the organization at the plant of an experimental design bureau (Design Bureau PO Box 295) for the development of electronic equipment. He was led by design engineer Lutfula Valievich Gizatdinov ^[2] .

1959-1982

In 1959, the plant was commissioned by the USSR government to develop telemetry and rangefinder equipment for rocket and space technology: the Rubin and Diamond projects. For technical support of production, modernization and modification of equipment, a radio engineering department (RTO) was created at the plant ^[2] .

The Kazan plant was one of the enterprises involved in the preparation of the first launches of Soviet manned spacecraft . For example, for the Vostok-1 ship, the Rubin-V radio device was made ^[4] . The company has become a supplier to the space industry, regularly releasing telemetry, trajectory and orbit control devices. For the successful completion of this task, the plant was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor , and a large group of employees of the enterprise were awarded orders and medals of the USSR ^{[2] [3] [5]} . In honor of the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin , the street passing near the plant was named ^[6] .

In the early 1960s, the company organized a new, second production for the manufacture of radio equipment - identification systems , airborne and ground beacons for aviation ^[2] .

In 1960, the plant also began manufacturing household appliances. The RTO forces were developed, and the plant mastered the country's first amplifiers for urban transport UT-1 and compact voice recorders "Electronics" ^[2] .

From 1962 to 1982, the director of the enterprise was the Honored Machine Builder of the RSFSR Hero of Socialist Labor L. V. Gizatdinov .

In 1966, by order No. 477 of April 22, the plant was renamed the Kazan Plug Connectors Plant (KZSHR), and in 1967 by order of the department No. 355 of June 16, 1967, the KZSHR was renamed the Kazan Plant of Radio Components of the USSR Ministry of Electronic Industry .

In 1968, the plant was ordered to quickly master the production of a complex of equipment for docking the lunar orbital and landing modules for the planned flight to the moon . The plant fulfilled its obligations ^{[2] [5]} .

1982-1996

In 1982, the company received the name Production Association "Elekon" (from the words "electrical contactors"). It was the leading enterprise in the electronic industry of the USSR in the field of the production of electrical connectors used in military, aerospace and civil engineering.

In addition, Elekon produced personal computers ( BC ), stereo players of the highest class Electronics D1-012 , several types of personal computer systems ^{[ specify ] [2]} .

Since 1986, the director of the enterprise has been appointed a specialist in laser technology, doctor of technical sciences, academician Alexander Ivanovich Laryushin ^[2] .

During the period of perestroika and reform of the national economy, the enterprise faced serious financial and economic difficulties caused by conversion and a reduction in state orders. Since 1989, the plant has been mastering new areas of production: laser medical equipment, mechanical engineering, lighting engineering, pipe fittings, large-scale (souvenir) car models.

Modern History

In 1997, NPO Elekon applied measures to financially improve the enterprise, repay debts, and reprofile a number of industries. The head of the enterprise was Nikolai Alexandrovich Kolesov ^[2] .

In 1999, the state-owned enterprise Elekon Plant of the Elekon Research and Production Association and its subsidiary state-owned enterprise Elekon-Qualitet were privatized and transformed into a joint-stock company . It received the name of Elekon Plant OJSC.

In subsequent years, production was expanded for connectors, lighting equipment, valves, mastered the production of new products - optical sights, theater binoculars, new types of lamps. Factory buildings and structures were also repaired ^[2] .

By order of the Russian Agency for Control Systems ( RASU ) No. 110 dated July 11, 2002, Elekon Plant OJSC was assigned the functions of the Bureau for the Use of Cylindrical Connectors (BPCS) ^[2] . The company is restoring the production of items for the acquisition of military and space technology. Fulfilling the decrees of the Government of the Russian Federation, in the early 2000s it carried out more than 40 research and development activities to create new products that completely provide the Topol-M, Bulava and others missile systems with electrical connectors.

After N.A. Kolesov was appointed governor of the Amur Region , in 2007, his daughter, deputy of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan , Anastasia Nikolaevna Kolesova, became the director of the enterprise.

In 2010, the Board of Directors of Zavod Elekon JSC elected a new General Director Nikolai Nikolaevich Uraev, who previously held the position of First Deputy General Director - Commercial Director of the enterprise ^[2] .

In 2018, after N.N. Uraev left the post of general director, the plant was headed by the son of N.A. Kolesova, president of KAN-Auto, Alexander Nikolayevich Kolesov.

The main products of the enterprise are connectors . Telemetric devices and connectors manufactured by Elekon Plant JSC are widely used in all types of military and civilian equipment and in many industries, launch vehicles: Soyuz , Proton , Zenit ; intercontinental ballistic missiles: SS-19 , SS-20 , " Topol-M " and their launchers; satellite ships: Vostok, Voskhod, Soyuz, Cosmos, Lightning, Screen, Rainbow and others; orbital stations: “Salyut”, “Mir”, ISS; interplanetary stations: “Moon”, “Mars”, “Venus”; military and civilian aircraft, helicopters, ships and submarines, tanks, radars, satellite communications and navigation systems, telemechanics and automation, television and electrical engineering, nuclear and thermal power plants, railway equipment, cars ^[2] . Products are exported to dozens of countries.

In addition, the enterprise produces consumer goods: lamps, souvenir trucks ^[7] and others.

• Radio, electrical and instrument-making industry // Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documentation of the Republic of Tatarstan: guidebook / Main Archival Administration under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan; Repl. ed. A. L. Litvin; Repl. comp. R.N. Gibadullina. - M.: Links, 1999 .-- 463 p. - (Archives of Russia: Guides). - ISBN 5-7870-0029-3 .

• Official site of Elekon Plant OJSC