Sverdlov, Plant

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SVERDLOV (4 Sverdlovskaya Embankment), a closed joint-stock company from 1996, a machine-tool plant, the largest national manufacturer of highly automated multi-purpose systems for advanced metal working technologies. Founded by J. Murged in 1868, it was situated in Eleventh Line, Vasilievsky Island till 1878. The plant passed to Murged's sons in 1886 who founded Phoenix Engineering Plant Partnership. The plant specialised in repairing industrial equipment and manufacturing machine components for textile, stationery, and sugar enterprises in the 1860-80s. It later assembled imported machines and tools and started making own steam engines, hoisting cranes, cutting presses, and metal-working machines, also manufacturing ammunition in 1914-17. The plant was nationalised in 1919 and named after Y. V. Sverdlov in 1922. Its activities were suspended during the Civil War; the plant resumed manufacturing previously designed machines and developing new types in 1925. Many types of machines developed at the plant were manufactured by other enterprises on a large scale. The plant made shells in the autumn and winter of 1941, then manufacturing was suspended till 1944. After the war the plant started making cutting machines, such as horizontal borers, jig-boring machines, copying millers, machining devices, and other equipment, made according to the company’s own design. A machine-tool company replaced the plant in 1962. At present the plant continues developing and manufacturing state-of-the-art machines, as well as repairing and upgrading machines of various types. Sverdlov's products have been awarded prizes at a number of national and international fairs in 1998-2000.

Reference: Борисов Г. Б., Васильев С. В. Станкостроительный имени Свердлова: Очерк истории... Л., 1962.

V. S. Solomko. Murged J.
Sverdlov Yakov Mikhailovich
11th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city
Sverdlovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Борисов Г. Б., Васильев С. В. Станкостроительный имени Свердлова: Очерк истории... Л., 1962