Baku plant of household conditioners

The first household appliances intended for cooling of an indoor air in the Soviet Union appeared in Azerbaijan in the seventies of last century.

It is interesting that else in 1815 Frenchman Zhann Shabannes patented a method "air conditionings and regulations of temperature in dwellings and other buildings", but in practice the first devices appeared almost a century later.

The first household conditioners in the USSR began to be issued in the seventies. Before they were done too, but they were intended not for domestic needs, and for communication hubs and aircraft.

The plant which opened in Baku in 1975 made the cooling devices according to the license of the Japanese firm Toshiba for needs of ordinary citizens.

The Baku plant was at that time the largest in Eastern Europe. The amount of annual export of the Baku conditioners was 120-150 thousand, i.e. about 30-40% of all products. So, if in 1976 at the plant 56 thousand conditioners were produced, then only 3 their years later 400 thousand were made.

Devices were bought by Australia, Egypt, Iran, China, Cuba. They were big and very noisy, but were extremely "hardy". For example, in Australia some devices work still!

In the mid-eighties the annual production capacity of the plant was 400-500 thousand conditioners. In spite of the fact that the plant released only a certain type of window conditioners, the release of the first Soviet a Split systems with the internal block of floor type was mastered in the same place, but they were made very little.

After the collapse of the USSR production of conditioners in Baku gradually began to be reduced, and by the end of last century was finally closed. The last 20 conditioners in Baku were made in 2007, after that the plant was offered for sale.

It should be noted that conditioners not always were such desired all luxury (and now a need subject). It was possible to pay even just for the publication about them earlier. So in 1940 for the publication of articles about air conditioning crushed the Otopleniye I Ventilyation magazine as they were considered promotion of bourgeois views in the equipment, and long time the subject was under a ban.