Today, May 9, the St. Petersburg Precision Alloy Plant celebrates Victory Day. This day is not just a holiday for the enterprise; it is a time to remember the difficult challenges that our city and plant faced during the Great Patriotic War.
Already in the first days of the war on Steel Rolling Wire and Rope Plant named after V. M. Molotov 706 people, including 162 communists (35% of the party organization), joined the people's militia battalion. Many workers, engineers and technicians went to the front.
In a matter of days, the Vasileostrovskaya Rifle Division was formed. Steel rolling metallurgists, Baltic shipbuilders, Sevkabel cable operators, Pneumatica machine builders, students and teachers from Leningrad University, the Mining Institute, and the Academy of Arts went to defend their city with arms in their hands.
Those who went to the front were replaced by labor veterans who returned to their machines. The workers' wives and sisters began to help at the plant. Production did not stop.
At the end of August, the last railway line linking Leningrad to the country was cut off. The evacuation of equipment, people, food, fuel and ammunition has stopped. Heavy guns began shelling the city. On September 10, Vasileostrovsky District and the plant were first bombed. Self-defense units were created in factories, homes and institutions. They also operated at the Steel Rolling Plant.
The harsh winter of 1941—1942 came. Fuel and food supplies were running out. Under the leadership of the Leningrad Party Organization, the Road of Life was created — first a water route and then an ice route along Lake Ladoga, which connected our city to the Mainland. The Nazis did everything to disrupt the normal functioning of this vital artery: they bombed convoys and shelled bases for unloading food and ammunition. The 225th Separate Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, which included a large group of Steel Rolling Plant employees, participated in defending the Road of Life. After the war, they all returned to the factory.
In the spring of 1942, air raids on the city became more frequent. Three shells hit the spring shop, then ten more, and on winter days, at 28 degrees below zero, the girls worked outdoors. And no matter how difficult it was, they were always optimistic. They believed that the day would come when enemy planes would not fly over our land, when peace would come again. Neither hunger nor cold, nor bombardment, nor artillery bombardment could shake their faith. Their names went down in the history of the plant. Photos of girls can be seen today in the factory museum.
Today, in a difficult geopolitical situation, the St. Petersburg Precision Alloy Plant is actively engaged in import substitution and by production the precision alloys needed by the country:
He also works at the company research center, where new high-quality materials and production technologies are being developed. For questions about the company's work and cooperation with the PZPS Research Center, please call +7 (812) 740-76-55 or leave a request on the site. Our specialists will contact you and answer all your questions in detail.
