Several recordings of the Kirov plant in St. Petersburg, founded in 1789 and awarded several times with the Order of Lenin, are on fire, and a huge cloud of toxic smoke is rising into the air from the complex. The color of the smoke strongly resembles that produced by the combustion of nitric acid, an extremely toxic compound.
The Kriov factory used to be a plant manufacturing machinery and agricultural machinery, except for the period of the Second World War. At that time (the plant moved with all production lines and workers) Between late 1939 and May 1945, it produced more than 18,000 heavy tanks (KV-1s) and self-propelled guns for the Soviet Red Armywhich represented about 20 percent of the total production.
According to the factory’s official website, it currently manufactures Kirovetsz tractors, manufactures steam turbine equipment, oil rigs and special steel alloys. The plant is Russia’s only modern universal test bench suitable for testing ships and marine turbines.
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2023-04-20 10:36:00
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