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| Company type | Joint-stock company |
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| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | 1912; 112 years ago (1912) |
| Headquarters | , |
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| Products | Gas turbines, Rocket engines, Auxiliary power units, Gearboxes |
| Revenue | $327 million[1] (2017) |
| $9.84 million[1] (2017) | |
| $2.91 million[1] (2017) | |
| Total assets | $482 million[1] (2017) |
| Total equity | $76.6 million[1] (2017) |
Number of employees | 3300 (2022) |
| Parent | United Engine Corporation[2] |
| Website | www |
The JSC Klimov (or Joint Stock Company Klimov) manufactures internationally certified gas turbine engines, main gearboxes and accessory drive gearboxes for transport aircraft.
Originally established as Kirill Klimov Experimental Design Bureau in Saint-Petersburg under the direction of Vladimir Yakovlevich Klimov [ru] (Влади́мир Я́ковлевич Кли́мов) (1892–1962), Klimov designed engines for Soviet aircraft based on Renault aircraft engine designs.[3] It may have used the designation Aircraft Repair Factory (aviazavod, ARZ) 117 during the Soviet period.[citation needed]
The Klimov OKB was formed in the early 1930s to produce and improve upon the liquid-cooled Hispano-Suiza 12Y V-12 piston engine for which the USSR had acquired a license. At that time Klimov also manufactured motorcycles.
In 1946 the British government allowed Rolls-Royce to sell a number of Nene and Derwent V turbojet engines to the Soviet Union. Klimov OKB was given the task of "metrifying" the British designs, without the knowledge or permission of the West, as the VK-1 and RD-500.
Klimov United Engine Company is now located in Saint Petersburg.
It used the nationalised buildings originally erected by 1914 in the city's present-day Vyborgsky District for the joint stock Russian Renault automotive works,[4][5] adding new workshop and administrative premises on the land in Bolshoy Sampsoniyevskiy Prospect avenue near the present Kantemirovskaya Street. By 2020 the premises have been vacated for redevelopment for a housing project.[6]
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Parent company: Oboronprom (Rostec) | |
