ImLight

Aktivs

As of June 2012:

• 28 brands of professional lighting, sound and stage equipment.
• Production of spectacular instruments, theatrical lamps, power and electronic equipment, stage mechanics, steel and aluminum structures, cases and coffers.

More than 100 regional offices. Experienced, trained and certified professional personnel. The staff of the company is 400 (+/-) people. Offices are located in Kirov and Moscow.

Services

• Equipping facilities with Public Address Systems.
• Architectural illumination of buildings and structures.
• Technical support of concerts, festive events (rental of light, sound, laser equipment, led-screens, special effects generators, mobile stage pavilions and structures).
• Warranty and post-warranty repair of equipment in Kirov and Moscow.

Performance indicators

As of June 2012, more than 400 different complex projects in different parts of our country.

History

Mid-1980s: Kirov Theater

At the origins of the creation of the company "IMLIGHT" were people who devoted most of their lives to the theater. The foundation of the company was laid at the Theater of Young Spectators of the city of Kirov, when in the mid-1980s a group of progressive-thinking young people came to the theater's electric shop. He was then led by an artist, the "soul of light" (as they wrote about him then) - Leonid Ivanovich Zverev. He managed to charge the team with his energy, kindness. He taught how to create incredible miracles using ordinary instruments.

The school of scenography in the theater has always been very strong, and the requirements for a light score are incredibly high. Over the years of their work, showing imagination, outstanding innovative abilities, ingenuity and "man-made" performance, they provided more than one performance of the theater with spectacular staged lighting, despite the total shortage and lack of the necessary assortment of lighting equipment (everything came to the theater according to quotas and orders of the Ministry of Culture).

The fresh wind of perestroika changed the lives of many people in Russia. The spirit of cooperation flew everywhere, and ideas seethed like in the vent of a volcano, splashing out and materializing into various projects in all corners of our vast homeland. In the late 80s, our "handmade" devices became in demand not only in their native theater, but also in many concert and, like mushrooms, emerging club stage venues. And then it went, and went!

"We bring light and joy to people!" - this was the main motto of young enthusiastic engineers who smoked at night over the design of a new light device, which could be made using affordable improvised materials.

Everything that could somehow shine, spin, change color and flash was used - from flashing beacons to car headlights and reflectors from mopeds, from bicycle gears and bushings to school globes, from television transformers to electric motors. Literally everything that, in principle, should not be soldered and welded was soldered, glued, welded and riveted.

Even now you understand that the level of light design of the performances was and still is high. Yes, then there were no scanners and "muwing heads," but the illuminators... took drives from PRTL-U-1 spotlights, made a frame to it, on which 2 devices No. 720 (GDR) or PT-250 were mounted and received movable powerful cascades for contour light. Then, for control, a Scan-6 console was made, combining synchronously in 6 stages. Broken colored glass was glued to glass discs for projectors to create the effects of "clouds," "snow," etc., and put them on low voltages, obtaining very spectacular "colorchengers" during rotation.

There were no smoke machines either, so they used tiles with a fan, where ammonium chloride was thrown. To create lightning flashes (strobe lights) - they took sparklers, wound tungsten thread on them, pulled up 2 wires, closed and... the machine was knocked out, but there was a spectacular flash.

The function of later fashionable confetti and snow machines used to be performed by stage mounters, who threw them from a bucket from grates.

To achieve the "running fire" effect, huge cabinets with contactors were mounted under the stage, which, when the garlands were turned on, rumbled like a "katyusha" salvo.

Light control was carried out from under the stage from the legendary light regulator RTM-60 (this is a huge number of cables, levers, wheels...). In order to make a slow "dawn" or "sunset," it was necessary to pedal four hands to control this "combine" - and, you know, it turned out well. All this resembled acrobatic studies. For each performance, illuminators had to invent individual lamps, devices, effects.

1989: Blick 100 Co-op

After all the success, illuminators began to be invited to equip disco clubs, dance halls and stage plows. And in 1989, they decided to open the Blik-100 cooperative.

The first devices produced "on the knee": strobe lights, turntables, running lights, color and musical screens, mirror balls and other divises - diverged like seeds. Still, the demand exceeded the supply by a thousand times! There was no end to those wishing to have a miracle effect. And this phenomenon had a completely logical explanation. The first owners of innovative light products for that time were restaurants, nightclubs and discos. Anyone who was able to understand the role of light effects on stage and in the hall, and even more so acquired them for long-term use, became unattainable for competitors. The new image of the institution they created inevitably turned into a high financial return on risky investments at that time.

The Light Salon BLIK-100 cooperative was very quickly renamed. The words "image" (IMAGE) and "light" (LIGHT) firmly formed the basis of the newly created company "IMLIGHT" ("IMLIGHT").

The organization of work and the meaning of the company's activities in those years, as in the ancient secrets of the universe, were kept on "three elephants":

• production of light effects spotlights, electronic light control systems, aluminum truss structures,
• supply and installation of equipment,
• rental of light and sound equipment.

The company very quickly acquired its individuality, its unique face, since its activities resembled the activities of pioneers, who were instantly recognized in various parts of Russia and the CIS.

Thousands of manufactured products were sold in the early years of the company at an unthinkable rate. And many of them still work. And many take pride of place in the company's museum.

The successes achieved in production were immediately consolidated in many installations, among which were the Astrim nightclub in Kirov, such fashionable Moscow clubs as RED ZONE, PILOT by Anton Tabakov, Moscow Variety Theater, Youth Theater, Philharmonic, Drama Theater of the city of Kirov, etc.

In the wake of success, IMLIGHT became an active participant in the first Russian specialized exhibitions and even presented its products at the SIEL exhibition in Paris as part of the Russian delegation.

But if the first Russian exhibitions, step by step, consolidated and multiplied the achieved results, then the experience of foreign exhibitions showed that Europe remained quite conservative in the views and perceptions of Russian companies on the international market. And no matter how we fought over our own positioning, proving our significance, nothing worked out.

The company quickly reoriented and concentrated its efforts in the domestic market of Russia and the CIS countries, actively participating in exhibition events in Moscow, Minsk, Kyiv, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg.

Many of those employees who recognize the company today at specialized Russian and foreign exhibitions, in tender committees, at concert venues and reconstructions of facilities were young and very ambitious in those years.

1998: Growth of own production

After the crisis of 1998, due to the changed structure of demand, production volumes grew at a rapid pace. The motto of the leader of the Union of Right Forces party: "Buy Russian!" - helped us move forward. And production has become one of the important areas of the company.

The competition was gaining momentum. Reaching the next stage of the company's development depended on solving the most important problems:

• development of effective distribution channels;
• expansion of the range of products offered;
• development of new directions;
• providing effective technical and information support;
• development of the company's infrastructure (offices, warehouses, logistics of supplies).

A significant event in the life of the company was the formation of a Moscow representative office. With its advent, the company managed to expand its presence in various regions of Russia.

Many vital issues were resolved: reducing the delivery time of goods and services to the consumer, effective service support, and uninterrupted provision of production processes with the necessary electronic components.

In parallel with production and sales, the project direction of the company was constantly developing. The company has moved from club projects to complex theater installations.

2008: Major projects

In 2008, we participated in the reconstruction of two theaters in Astrakhan, on the anniversary of the drama theater and youth theater; in Ulan-Ude ("Russian Drama"), in Yekaterinburg (ballet theater "The Nutcracker"), in Kazan (theater named after Tenchurin); in Kirov (puppet theater); two theaters in Dagestan. They supplied equipment for the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, for the Bolshoi Theater. They equipped skating rinks near the Kremlin wall in Moscow and on Palace Square in St. Petersburg.