Inertial flashlight (dynamo) Electric power. Body: bakelite, details bronze, copper, glass lens. The dynamo lever is fixed. Dimensions: width-5.5cm, length-7.5cm, thickness-2.7cm. The diameter of the lens is 2.4cm.

The lantern is made at the Plant "Electrosila" named after S.M. Kirov. Leningrad in the 1940s. Such lanterns were used by the Russian army during the attack of the German invaders on the city of Leningrad. They were nicknamed "bugs" for their characteristic buzzing sound. The blockade "bug" is the same legendary item for the history of the blockade of the city as a sled, a stove "bourgeois" and bread cards. This flashlight was used by Mikhail - the main character of the trilogy "Tarantula" by Herman Matveev ("Green Chains", "Secret Fight" and "Tarantula") about the adventures of teenagers, participants in the heroic defense of Leningrad. This model of pocket lanterns was developed for participants of the world's first Soviet polar research station "North Pole-1" ("SP", "SP-1") drifting on an ice floe. The official opening of the joint venture took place on June 6, 1937. Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin was in charge of the station. The history of the plant dates back to 1853, when an electrical factory was established, a branch of the Berlin plant "Siemens-Schuckert". This decision was due to extensive orders from the Russian government (primarily the military department) made to this joint-stock company. It was located on the 1st line of Vasilievsky Island.

The date of the plant's foundation is considered to be 1898, when the factory became part of the joint-stock company of Russian electrotechnical plants "Siemens and Galske".

After the October Revolution of 1917, it was nationalized and renamed.

The territories occupied by the plant on both sides of the Moskovsky Highway, as the continuation of the then Zabalkansky Avenue was called, entered the administrative boundaries of the city only after the revolution, when in May 1917 the Alexandrovsky suburban section was transformed into the Moskovsky district. The avenue separated the western and eastern territories of the plant until 1969, when an automobile tunnel was built under Moskovsky Prospekt. For third-party civilian transport, this tunnel was inaccessible, since the entrance and exit were located on the territory of the plant. For this reason, the construction of the factory tunnel was not advertised in the media - unlike the pedestrian tunnel, the construction of which was started simultaneously with the transport one. The projects were tied to each other. The automobile tunnel significantly simplified the technological connections of the plant and increased the capacity of Moskovsky Prospekt, the main entrance to the city from Pulkovo Airport. Also, since 1927, the factory multi-edition "Electrosila" was produced. O. F. Bergholz worked as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper in the 1930s.

After the Great Patriotic War, the plant was involved in the work of the USSR atomic project. Within the framework of the First Main Directorate at the Electrosila plant, the SCB was created, the draft resolution on the creation of the SCB was prepared by the project manager B. L. Vannikov, the People's Commissar of the Electrical Industry of the USSR I. G. Kabanov and the representative of Gosplan N. A. Borisov. After revision, the document was issued in the form of the Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR dated December 27, 1945 No. 3176-964ss "On the organization of a special Design Bureau for the design of electromagnetic converters at the Electrosila plant Narkomelektroprom".

In Soviet times, generators for power plants were produced here, including equipment for Volkhovskaya, Dneprovskaya and Rybinsk hydroelectric power plants, as well as household vacuum cleaners. A branch of the plant was located in the city of Dno. The plant had extensive international relations, supplying its products for export to developing and developed countries, adequately competing with the giants of heavy electrical engineering. The trademark "Electrosily" was known all over the world.

In Soviet times, it was named after S. M. Kirov: the association "Electrosila" named after S. M. Kirov.