* State porcelain factory.

One of the oldest in Europe, the first and one of the largest enterprises in Russia for the production of artistic porcelain products. Initially it was called the “Porcelain Manufactory”, from 1765 – the Imperial Porcelain Factory, from 1917 – the State Porcelain Factory (GFZ is an abbreviation of the brand), in 1925 the factory was named after M. V. Lomonosov in connection with the 200th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences; The enterprise received an official name - the Leningrad Porcelain Factory named after M.V. Lomonosov, along with which the short form was used - Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (LFZ - the abbreviation of the brand was also interpreted as the Leningrad Porcelain Factory) - until 2005. In 1918, the enterprise was nationalized. The plant came under the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat of Education, which set the task of turning the former court manufactory into a “testing ceramic laboratory of republican significance”, producing “propaganda porcelain in the high sense of the word - revolutionary in content, perfect in form, impeccable in technical execution.” The factory's artistic policy was an integral part of Lenin's plan for monumental propaganda with its clearly defined ideological and artistic principles of porcelain art. Porcelain of the 20s of the twentieth century is, perhaps, one of the most interesting and amazing pages in the history of decorative and applied art, which historically truthfully, in a perfect artistic form, reflected the mood of the first years of the proletarian revolution. Under the leadership of S. Chekhonin, who later began to be called the “master of the Soviet Empire style,” A. Shchekotikhin-Pototskaya, N. Danko, V. Kuznetsov, M. Lebedeva, M. Adamovich and others took part in the creation of propaganda porcelain. The names of B. Kustodiev, K. Petrov-Vodkin, M. Dobuzhinsky, etc. are associated with porcelain of the 20s. K. Malevich and V. Kandinsky, who became world famous. In addition to achievements in the field of artistic porcelain, the plant successfully developed the production of chemical and technical porcelain, and for the first time optical glass was produced here. And therefore, it is no coincidence that in 1925, in connection with the 200th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the plant was named after the brilliant Russian scientist M.V. Lomonosov.