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1998

Cooperation between Project Development Institute No. 1 and Ford Motor Company begins. The Institute carries out a package of designing activities involving construction of the plant in Vsevolozhsk District, Leningrad Region as the general designing company. Representatives of Russia’s first foreign automaking enterprise highly appreciated the professional level of Project Development Institute No. 1, noting its sound selection of design solutions and qualified field supervision process. 

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Кировский завод i

Автор: Блохин Максим

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Kirov Plant

Longstanding cooperation connects Project Development Institute No. 1 with the giant of domestic machine-engineering - Kirov Plant in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). The design works of the Institute include an open-hearth workshop, iron-rolling workshop, express-laboratory, thermal-power generation unit and other plant facilities. 

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Петр Абрамович Шмыков

Pyotr Shmykov

Director of Project Development Institute No. 1 1951–1958

Pyotr Shmykov took the helm of Project Development Institute No. 1 in 1951, having served as the organization’s chief engineer since February 1947. He went down in history as a highly-skilled engineer and talented organizer. During his management tenure, Project Development Institute No. 1 was recognized as an innovative institution, winning authority not only throughout the country but abroad as well: it took part in the World’s Fair in Brussels in 1958 and Scientific-and-Technical Achievements Expo in New York City in 1959. In the 1950s, numerous innovative approaches were created at the Institute that set the foundations of standardized design. This period also witnessed the start of the design of tire plants, representing a new field for the Institute.

Pyotr passed away on 20 March 1958 while on duty in the building of the Institute.

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