"We hereby have the honor to inform you that the government-approved Russian Joint-Stock Company of Optical and Mechanical Production went into operation on February 4, 1914. The company was set up for the task of developing Russian optical and high-precision mechanical products. The company has constructed a factory for this purpose in St. Petersburg, on Chugunnyi Street, in which factory all devices in the area of optical and high-precision mechanical production will be fabricated upon request under the management of Russian specialists, by Russian workers, and when possible from Russian materials". This announcement marked the beginning of the history of the first optical factory in Russia.
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