Another blogger, Dmitri, has gone to a famous Leningrad factory – a place where the huge turbines and other parts for the nuclear power plants and other large components of Russian and foreign electro power plants are manufactured. If you want to see in detail how they are made, have a look inside!
This corporation is one of the largest Russian companies and it ships huge machines for most Russian power plants.
To enter the factory, you need to pass multi level security checks. Including tests for alcohol!
Some say that this factory is a perfect example of how a modern Russian factory should look.
The best employees are rewarded with their photos on the local leaderboard.
Inside, the shops are huge.
Here you can see parts of huge turbines.
Here is Dmitri standing next to one.
And this is a huge welding robot.
And in the background there is a gas heater that heats parts to 300+ degrees C and higher.
And these are shafts used in power plants.
And an Italian lathe that machines them.
Some shafts are up to 3 meters or 10 feet in diameter.
Some floors are made of wooden blocks installed vertically. They are probably made this way to protect parts from damage if they land on the floor.
Working on the inside of the parts.
Every inch is meticiously inspected.
And those are huge bolts used to put this stuff all together.
Hope you liked the photos taken by Dmitri! His site is below:
Very clean factory, I think it would be an privledge to work in an environment like that
Compared to the UK large electrical machine factory that I worked in during the 1970’s it is a lot cleaner but so are all modern European factories. Cleanliness motivates people, even those who abuse it.
IT is part owned by Siemens.
turbines? Don’t you mean propellers?