The JSC Klimov (or Joint Stock Company Klimov) presently manufactures internationally certified gas turbine engines, main gearboxes and accessory drive gearboxes for transport aircraft.
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Type | Joint-stock company |
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Industry | Aerospace |
Founded | 1912; 110 years ago (1912) |
Headquarters | , Russia |
Products | Gas turbines, Engines, Gearboxes, Auxiliary power units |
Revenue | $327 million[1] (2017) |
Operating income | $9.84 million[1] (2017) |
Net income | $2.91 million[1] (2017) |
Total assets | $482 million[1] (2017) |
Total equity | $76.6 million[1] (2017) |
Parent | United Engine Corporation[2] |
Website | klimov |
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]
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) |
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Piston engines | |
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Turboprops and turboshafts |