Klimov

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JSC Klimov
Company type Joint-stock company
IndustryAerospace
Founded1912;112 years ago (1912)
Headquarters,
Key people
  • Alexander Grachev (deputy general manager, managing director
  • Dmitry Tverdokhleb (deputy managing director)
Products Gas turbines, Rocket engines, Auxiliary power units, Gearboxes
Revenue$327 million [1]  (2017)
$9.84 million [1]  (2017)
$2.91 million [1]  (2017)
Total assets $482 million [1]  (2017)
Total equity $76.6 million [1]  (2017)
Number of employees
3300 (2022)
Parent United Engine Corporation [2]
Website www.uecrus.com

The JSC Klimov (or Joint Stock Company Klimov) presently manufactures internationally certified gas turbine engines, main gearboxes and accessory drive gearboxes for transport aircraft.

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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 V turbojet 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]

Piston engines

During World War II, designations were changed from M (motor) to VK (the lead designer's initials)

Gas turbine engines

Klimov RD-33 turbofan from Mig-29 Klimov RD-33 turbofan engine.JPG
Klimov RD-33 turbofan from Mig-29
Klimov TV7-117 turboshaft TV7-117SM International salon Engines-2010 02.jpg
Klimov TV7-117 turboshaft
Mi-38 powered by Klimov TV7-117 Mil Mi-38 at the MAKS-2011 (01).jpg
Mi-38 powered by Klimov TV7-117
Klimov VK-800 turboshaft MAKS Airshow 2013 (Ramenskoye Airport, Russia) (524-41).jpg
Klimov VK-800 turboshaft
TV3-117VM VMA for Mil and Kamov helicopters
TV3-117VMA-SBM1 Turboprop for the An-140 , MiG-110 , Be-32K
TV7-117S Turboprop for Aircraft
TV7-117K naval variant
MBT and vehicles, wagon locomotives GTs

Auxiliary power unit

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