The JSC Klimov (or Joint Stock Company Klimov) manufactures internationally certified gas turbine engines, main gearboxes and accessory drive gearboxes for transport aircraft .
5-540: 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. It may have used the designation Aircraft Repair Factory (aviazavod, ARZ) 117 during the Soviet period. The Klimov OKB
10-671: A bureau's activity is R&D or " research and development ." For security, each bureau was only officially identified by a number, but were often semi-officially referenced by the name of its lead designer. For example, OKB-51 was led by Pavel Sukhoi , and it eventually became known as the OKB of Sukhoi . Successful and famous bureaus often retained these names after the death or replacement of their founding designers. These relatively small state-run organisations were not intended for mass production of aircraft, rockets, or other vehicles or equipment which they designed. However, they usually had
15-665: 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, adding new workshop and administrative premises on the land in Bolshoy Sampsoniyevskiy Prospect avenue near
20-626: The present Kantemirovskaya Street . By 2020 the premises have been vacated for redevelopment for a housing project. OKB OKB ( Russian : ОКБ ) is a transliteration of the Russian initials of " опытно-конструкторское бюро " – opytno konstruktorskoye byuro , meaning 'experiment and design bureau'. During the Soviet era , OKBs were closed institutions working on design and prototyping of advanced technology , usually for military applications . The corresponding English language term for such
25-586: 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
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