Izhorskiye Zavody or Izhora Plants () is a Russian machine building joint stock company (OAO) belonging to the OMZ Group. It operates a major manufacturing plant in

Kolpino, Saint Petersburg Kolpino () is a municipal city in Kolpinsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located on the Izhora River (tributary of the Neva) southeast of St. Petersburg proper. Population: 81,000 (1972); 8,076 (1 ...

Operations

The company is primarily a heavy industry factory. It specializes in engineering, production, sales and maintenance of equipment and machines for the

nuclear power Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion reactions. Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced by ...

, oil and gas, and mining industries, and in production of special steels and equipment for other industries. Production includes metal tanks, boilers, pressure vessels of nuclear reactors, and devices for distillation, filtering or purification of liquids and gases. It has produced the reactor vessels for the first

Russian floating nuclear power station Floating nuclear power stations () are vessels designed by Rosatom, the Russian state-owned nuclear energy corporation. They are self-contained, low-capacity, floating nuclear power plants. Rosatom plans to mass-produce the stations at shipbuil ...

Akademik Lomonosov ''Akademik Lomonosov'' () is a non-self-propelled power barge that operates as the first Russian floating nuclear power station. The ship was named after Russian Academy of Sciences, academician Mikhail Lomonosov. It is docked in the Pevek harb ...

''. OMZ employs some 16,500 people. A recent Expert magazine ranking placed OMZ among Russia's 400 largest companies. Izhorsky Zavody factory is an important part of the St. Petersburg economy. In November 2021 Izhorskiye Zavody manufactured and delivered at sea a reaction vessel for

Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant () is a large nuclear power plant in Turkey under construction in Akkuyu, Büyükeceli, Mersin Province. It is expected to generate around 10% of the country's electricity when completed. The official launch cer ...

Unit 2 in

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. The price of the reaction vessel is approximately RUB 3 billion, based on a contract signed in 2017.

References

External links

OMZ Businesses

Izhorskiye Zavody (Google Finance website)
{{Imperial Russian Shipyards Manufacturing companies of Russia Engineering companies of Russia Nuclear technology companies of Russia Manufacturing companies of the Soviet Union Companies based in Saint Petersburg 1722 establishments in the Russian Empire Uralmash-Izhora Group Ministry of Heavy and Transport Machine-Building (Soviet Union) Companies established in 1722 Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Saint Petersburg