The JSC Klimov (or Joint Stock Company Klimov) manufactures internationally certified gas turbine engines, main gearboxes and accessory drive gearboxes for
transport aircraft.
Originally established as Kirill Klimov
Experimental Design Bureau in Saint-Petersburg under the direction of
Vladimir Yakovlevich Klimov [
ru] (Влади́мир Я́ковлевич Кли́мов) (1892–1962), Klimov designed engines for
Soviet aircraft based on
Renault aircraft engine designs.[3] It may have used the designation Aircraft Repair Factory (aviazavod, ARZ) 117 during the Soviet period.[citation needed]
History
The Klimov OKB was formed in the early 1930s to produce and improve upon the liquid-cooled
Hispano-Suiza 12Y V-12 piston engine for which the USSR had acquired a license. At that time Klimov also manufactured motorcycles.
In 1946 the British government allowed Rolls-Royce to sell a number of
Nene and
Derwent Vturbojet engines to the Soviet Union. Klimov OKB was given the task of "metrifying" the British designs, without the knowledge or permission of the West, as the
VK-1 and
RD-500.
Klimov United Engine Company is now located in
Saint Petersburg.
It used the nationalised buildings originally erected by 1914 in the city's present-day Vyborgsky District for the joint stock Russian
Renault automotive works,[4][5] adding new workshop and administrative premises on the land in Bolshoy Sampsoniyevskiy Prospect avenue near the present
Kantemirovskaya Street. By 2020 the premises have been vacated for redevelopment for a housing project.[6]