Gustav List

Gustav List

Gustav (Ivanovich) List (* 1835 in Berlin ; † February 17, 1913 in Moscow ) was an entrepreneur in Moscow.

His older brother Adolf List (* 1828, father of Adolph Moritz List ) had built a sugar factory in Russia.

Gustav did an apprenticeship in the USA and moved to Russia in 1856, where he worked as a mechanic in a sugar factory in Voronezh . Here he built his first mechanical fire pump .

Sofiyskaya 14

In 1863 he moved to Moscow, where he temporarily bought a house on the island of Balchug on Sofiyskaya 12/14, opposite the Kremlin (later the British embassy). In his mechanical workshop for pumps and fire-fighting equipment, he initially employed 13 people. In 1870 he built a forge and built the building for the steam engine. After the factory burned down in 1872, he moved it to another location. In 1876 he already employed 150 people.

In 1897 the company was converted into a stock corporation, in which his sons Nikolaus and Alexander also participated. He founded a foundry and in the same year started producing hydrants.

In 1898 he had the architects Lev Nikolayevich Kekushev and William Walcot (1874-1943) build a new house at 8 Glasow Street, in which he lived until his death.

In 1905 he produced the first Russian compressor. In the same year his workers rioted. In 1913 he employed 1,400 people. He is buried in the Vvedenskoye cemetery .

The plant produced grenades during the First World War.

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