Leningrad Metal Plant

LMZ was created on the basis of the St. Petersburg Metal Plant, founded in 1857 by merchant Sergei Nefedievich Rasteryaev . At first, the plant built small boilers, heating appliances, and performed various metal works. The factory was originally a handicraft workshop, but soon turned into a joint-stock company under the official name “Company of the St. Petersburg Metal Plant” (the charter was highly approved on December 20, 1857) ^[1] at which qualified engineers invited from Germany appeared.

Soon all the leading posts were taken by German experts. In 1867, the plant was headed by Otto Crel . Under his leadership, boiler production, manufacture of devices for heating and ventilation, production of metal structures for various purposes, cranes, floating docks , bridges were established. In 1886, for the first time in Russia, the plant manufactured barbet installations for the battleship Chesma , later mastered the production of tower installations with an electric drive.

In the early 1890s, the first Russian engineer N. D. Lesenko appeared at the plant ^[2] . He quickly gained a solid reputation as a designer. At the request of the Minister of Finance S. Yu. Witte , who was also in charge of the department of trade and industry and who headed for Russification of the plant, N. V. Lesenko was appointed deputy director. Subsequently, he took over as director of the plant.

The plant began to produce steam turbines in 1907 , having concluded a technical assistance agreement with a French company that built turbines of the Rato system. Drawings of these turbines were purchased. Plant engineers decided to remake the Rato turbine, changing the most critical components (blades, discs, cylinder). So there was a new Russian turbine "M-3". The boiler room of the plant produced steam boilers of various systems.

In addition to turbine and boiler production, the plant before the revolution had a large artillery department, which was engaged in the design and manufacture of ship and coastal tower artillery installations and torpedo tubes.

After the advent of Soviet power, the plant created the first hydraulic (in 1924 ) and gas (in 1958 ) turbines, ensured the implementation of almost a third of the GOELRO plan . In the year of the 50th anniversary of Stalin (1929) received his name. In 1930, the country's first technical university (the first graduation in 1932 ), now the St. Petersburg Institute of Mechanical Engineering, was created at the plant. By a resolution of the Council of Ministers of January 26, 1962, the LMZ labor collective approved the removal of the Stalin plant from the name of the XXII Congress of the CPSU and the plant became known as the Leningrad twice Order of the Lenin Metal Plant named after the XXII Congress of the CPSU.

It is currently a branch of Power Machines PJSC .

Old Names

• St. Petersburg Metal Plant.
• Leningrad Metal Plant named after I.V. Stalin (1929)
• Leningrad Metal Plant named after the XXII Congress of the CPSU.

• Order of Lenin ( 1945 ),
• Order of Lenin ( 1957 ),
• Order of the October Revolution ( 1971 ).

• Bauman, Nikolai Yakovlevich - a Soviet mechanical scientist, a specialist in turbine engineering, was among the first graduate of the VTUZ.
• Lesenko, Nikolai Danilovich - design engineer, director of the plant from 1901 to 1911. ^[3]
• Sedov, Grigory Ivanovich — director of the plant during the besieged winter of 1941-1942, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of two convocations.
• Kozharinov, Vladimir Vasilievich - Director of the plant in 1942-1949.

Turbine builders awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor ^{[4] [5]} :

• Borodulin, Alexander Vasilievich ;
• Gruzdev, Alexander Alexandrovich - was the director of the plant;
• Kovalev, Nikolai Nikolaevich ;
• Morozov, Ivan Vasilievich ;
• Nosov, Valentin Petrovich ;
• Tarasov, Victor Yakovlevich ;
• Chernyshev, Pyotr Sergeevich - was the chief engineer of the plant;
• Schegolev, Gleb Stepanovich .

Twice Heroes:

• Vinogradov, Vasily Petrovich - was the director of the plant;
• Chicherov, Vladimir Stepanovich .

• Power Machines
• "The Red Boiler "
• "Power"
• NGO CCTI named after I.I. Polzunova
• Kaluga Turbine Plant
• Turbine blade factory

• The development of technology at the Leningrad Metal Plant named after Stalin. 100 years. 1857-1957 [Text]: [Collection of articles] / Under. ed. Ing. M.N.Bushueva. - Moscow; Leningrad: Mashgiz. [Leningrad. Department], 1957. - 314 p.
• Leningrad Metal Plant named after Stalin. L., 1957.- 198 p.

• Leningrad Metal Plant - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
• Official site
• The historic site of LMZ, created for the 150th anniversary of the plant
• Historic building on Sverdlovskaya embankment, 18
• Leningrad Metal Plant in the Encyclopedia of St. Petersburg
• Leningrad Metal Plant on the site "Business of St. Petersburg"