ST. PETERSBURG

The history of The St. Petersburg Musical Wind Instruments Factory began when Julius Heinrich Zimmermann (1851-1923) opened a music store in St. Petersburg in 1875. 

The break-up of the USSR and economic reforms of 1989-92 interrupted the period of prosperity. Everything disappeared: government orders, federal funding and government management. The factory employees learnt in a hard way that their products were not essential commodities and the demand dropped drastically. With 20,000 maximum production in the late 80th, the factory produced only 500 in 1993. It important to notice that total musical industry  of the former USSR found itself in the similar sad situation. Unfortunately, not all enterprises could live this through. Only 10 out of 50 musical factories function today. And we are proud to be the only wind musical instruments manufacturer in the former Soviet Union.