| REF. NO. | DENOMINATION | DESCRIPTION | NO.ISSUED | CONDITION | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Image courtesy of Boone Shares |
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| 110 | 50 shares | 1917, provisional certificate, brown & green | ? #29401-50 |
VF | £- |
Kinovievsky Ultramarine Factory, Dr. G. I. Vege
Акционерное Общество Киновиевский Ультрамариновый Заводъ Дра. Г. И. Веге
Other city spellings: St.-Pétersbourg, Petrograd, Pétrograde
Formed in 1876 with head office in St. Petersburg. By 1917. capital had reached 3,000,000 roubles in shares of 100 roubles. The company produced paint, varnish and synthetic dyes and was founded in 1876 by Georgy Ivanovich Vege. The company is still active today, under the name of ‘NPO Pigment’.
1876
Description
The Kinovievsky Ultramarine Plant was founded by the industrialist Georgy Ivanovich Vege in 1876. It was the first ultramarine plant in Russia. Prior to that, it was imported exclusively from abroad. However, the Pigment company itself, of which the Kinovievsky Plant was a part, was founded long before that – in 1839, when Ivan Vasiliev, a native of the Yaroslavl province, opened a plant on Rezvy Island for the production of varnishes, drying oils and paints for the Baltic Shipbuilding and Putilov Plants. This was followed by the opening of the partnership “Marx Ludwig, Sternitsky Adolf” in 1858, the Weber Karl Trading House in 1867 and the Kinovievsky Plant nine years later.
The plant got its name due to the nearby Kinovia of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra – a suburban episcopal economy with a small monastery. It has existed here since 1820 to accommodate the sick and elderly monks, who were fully supported by the monastery.