Oil lights history. History of street lamp, features of occurrence

"Did you hear the story about the old street lamp? She is not so busy, but it doesn't interfere with it. So, there was a sort of selfish old street lamp; he honestly served a lot of years and finally had to resign .
The last evening hung a lantern on his post, lighting the street, and he had in his soul as an old ballerina, which in last time Speakers on the stage and knows that tomorrow will be forgotten in his camork ... "
Hans Christian Andersen. "Old street lamp".

Elements of the urban landscape, which by the will of the case passed through the time, monuments of the past era. They were forgotten that they helped them to survive their fellow. Are old lanterns preserved in our city? It turns out yes, and quite a few, - both the usual typical, characteristic of the epoch of the sixties and seventies and non-standard decorative. There is no point in the lively streets to look for them, but you will go to the courtyards - stand, and many even regularly fulfill their functions.
Here are the "working pensioners" of earlybrene times:

Lamp suspension Prismatic mercury SPPR-125 with diffuse reflector and prismatic open refractor. The most common street lamp of the late 1960s and 1970s with a DRL-125 lamp (arc mercury lamp), or, as more fully, they were called, high-pressure gas-discharge lamps - arc mercury lamps with phosphor ( white color glow). The lamp was lit with the throttle, which was located in the upper cylindrical design of the lantern. The lamp is installed on a support with a concrete console.

The lamp is a suspended open mercury dispute-250 was designed to use four-electro lamps DRL-250.
These lights were found on the streets of Bogomolov (at the intersection with Gagarin) and the Comintern (in the courtyard behind the store "Zarya"). The same pillars with concrete consoles are in the courtyards on the street. Karl Marx, Tereshkova, Grabrust, Ave. Drummer, but instead of old lamps on them are used modern:

A little about the pillars of this type. "Hussaki" - typical reinforced concrete lanterns with the characteristic concrete vertex, which were equipped with the new buildings of Moscow and Moscow region in the 60-70s. In those days, it was also cared not only about the technique, but also about aesthetics (albeit somewhat peculiar). Therefore, in most cases there was a hidden (underground) supply of wires and modest, but pretty lamps with incandescent lamps of the SPO type (SPP) -200. The renewed city thought carefully lit by albeit with the poor light bulbs of Ilyich.
However, in the late 70s, the party was ordered to save electricity, thanks to which most "hussaks" simply abandoned. The other part was ruthlessly emerged and replaced with more modern, but faceless 8-meter supports with mercury luminaires of SPPR-125. Well, finally, the third, the smallest part is found to use their use: they were equipped with SPPR lamps and air supply of wires. In this form, all this and survived somewhere until the end of the 90s.
Here, the third stage of the extermination of "Hussaki" began: it seems that the reinforced concrete brackets were ordered to be considered a dilapidation due to their age. At the moment, most of the pillars lost their recognizable elegant vertices, and cutting pipes for fastening modern lamps are screwed to them.
In our days, any concrete supports are already recognized as unreliable and dangerous, as a result of which their mass demolition began and replacing the analogs made from the "canned gland", most often with dim "dumping" lamps of the DNAT-70 type and connecting the SIP wire. This is how the era of Soviet "Hussakov" ends in our eyes.

"Hussak" at DK them. M.I. Kalinina. Mid 1960s:

But some fifty years ago they were in the center of urban events. Double "hussaki" at the movie "Star" cinema. Mid 1960s:

Yards on ul. Gorky. SPPR-125 lamp on a patch with a pipe console single:

and double:

The building of the city hospital number 2, built in 1932, together with the adjacent territory turned out to be rich in the find. Here, for example, bracket for the suspension lamp. On the wall, the traces of the wiring fastening are clearly visible. The bracket found the editor E. Fisherman Eryback (see Album "Flashlights-lanterns" on Yandex-photos: http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/eryback/album/161559/).

Not far from here, at the intersection of ul. Dzerzhinsky, etc. Makarenko, rises a rare column of the 1950s or 1960s:

On the bracket - no less rare "Lamp suspension open SPO 200", and in a simple "hat", - the most common lantern50s of the twentieth century with an ordinary incandescent lamp for 150-200 W. Such a lamp illuminated bizarre yellowish light lyou are a small block of land under it.

The same "hat" on a wooden pillar near the hospital building. And the one and the other - non-working:

And near the lamp with a reflector resembling an inverted trough, not known to me:

In the country area of \u200b\u200bthe city on ul. Dobrolyubov and Kutuzov perfectly preserved at least three "hats". One of them is not enough that hangs on the original old bracket, but in addition it also works! Raritet incredible. The place is clearly not here, but in the museum:

The modern street of Lermontov in Korolev, figuratively speaking, as if the age of the twentieth century from a century of the present. On the east side, a new residential quarter "Pionerskaya, 30" with modern street lighting is towers. Along the western there are seven in a row of old lantern columns with SPZP-500 lamps:

Luminaires, apparently, non-working, but most preserved glass flaplons:

Lamps of the same type at Bolshevo station. 1970-80 - E.:

Kindergarten "Cherry" (st. Skuby, D.15) Opened in 1960. The lamps of the RCU-01-250-011 are installed on the territory of approximately the late 1970s:

In the territory kindergarten "Teremok" (Ave. Drummer, d. 3a, opened in 1956) The lamps are the same, but the pillars are quite likely, and there - there are peers of buildings:

In the 1980s, quite famous andrecognizable street lampwas "Ambassador Elektrosvit" (Czechoslovakia) Type 444 23 17. In the USSR, he received a nickname "humpbat", and in the Czech Republic so farcall "Camel" (Velbloud). Perhaps the only copy in the city is preserved in the territory of the kindergarten "Mosaic" (ul. Gagarin, d. 22):

A small abandoned lantern in the square on the street. Comintern, apparently, also stands there since the 1980s:

Festive illumination of the 1980s (1990s?) On Soviet Street in MKP. Pervomaysky:

On the house number 17, two artistically decorated wall lamps were preserved on a street over the window. Once upon them were glass beams:

Neczed old lamp over the window of the city hospital number 2:

And finally, the miraculously preserved decorative metal lights. On old photos of the 40s - 60s. Xx in. It is noticeable that such lanterns in the city had a lot:

In those that lived to this day, there are no long lamps, there are only pillars. Since lights are not typical, their age is more complicated.
Three identical lamps are located around the building of the end of the 1950s - early 1960s (Lenin Str., D.4):

However, here is an archive photo shot on the street. Gagarin and dated 1945. On the right, the building of urban baths, five-story buildings are not yet in mom:

Is it not true, exactly these are the lanterns?!

Before the war on one of the main streets of Kaliningrad - Stalin (now it is Tsiolkovsky Street) - there were only two five-story stone houses No. 23/11 and No. 25 (built in 1940). Since the beginning of the 1950s, the streets and adjacent to it from the south of the quarters began to build up five-storey buildings. At the same time, kindergarten were built (1952), high school (1953) and three-story polyclinic.

In the 1960s, hospital town was erected near the clinic. Later, all these medical facilities became part of the Central City Hospital No. 1.

From the clinic at right angles to the street of Tsiolkovsky through the hospital park leads the old alley. Around the building and along the alleys among the thickets, four decorative lamps described above are preserved. The fifth hides in the north-western corner of the park on another, diagonal alley, which also once joined the clinic with Tsiolkovsky Street, and now rests on the fence. No longer on the territory of the hospital there is no such lamp. With a lot of probability, you can talk about what they were installed in the 1950s.

The fact that the lanterns of this type were very common in the then Kaliningrad, says that another of their "fellow" still stands in the very center of the city - on Tereshkova Street, across the road from the Central Palace of Culture. M.I. Kalinina. Most likely, he is older building DC. Perhaps this lamor pillar lived to this day also because it masked perfectly under the surrounding vegetation. I passed the countless number of times, without seeing it, and I recently discovered only because I carefully searched for:

In July 2014, the vegetation was shredded, and the lamppost seemed in all its glory:

Another decorative lantern is near the passage of JSC "RKK" Energia ", a little dissoning with the surrounding space. It is not necessary to determine it:

Flashlights with a decorative element in the form of harp are located on the territory of the former kindergarten (ul. Gagarin, 14a):

The first mention of artificial lighting of urban streets can be attributed to the beginning of the XV century. To dispel the impenetrable darkness in the capital of the British Empire, in 1417, London Mayor Henry Barton gave an order winter evenings Place lights. The first street lights were primitive, since they used ordinary candles and oil. At the beginning of the XVI century, the French grabbed the initiative and residents of Paris obliged to keep the lamps in the windows that go outside. With Louis XIV (King Sun) in Paris, numerous lights of street lamps appeared. In 1667, the "King Sun" published the Royal Decree on Street Lighting and thanks to this, Louis was called brilliant.

The first mention of street lighting in Russia appeared at the Board of Peter I. To celebrate the victory over the Swedes, in 1706 Peter I ordered the lanterns on the facades of houses near the Petropavlovsk fortress. In 1718, the first stationary lights appeared in St. Petersburg streets, and after 12 years, Empress Anna ordered them to establish them in Moscow.

Significantly increase the brightness of the lighting allowed the use of kerosene, but the real revolution of street light was an appearance in the XIX century of gas lanterns. The inventor of the Gas Lonor of the Englishman William Murdoch was exposed to great criticism and ridicule. Walter Scott somehow wrote one of his friends, "" Some crazy suggests London London smoke. " Despite criticism, Murdoch has a great success demonstrated the benefits of gas lighting. In 1807, the first street where the lanterns of the new design were installed, Pelle Mel became. Soon, gas lanterns conquered all European capitals.

The history of electrical lighting is associated primarily with the names of the Russian inventor Alexander Lodigina and American Tomas Edison. In 1873, Lodiodgin constructed a coal incandescent lamp, for which the Lomonosov Prize from the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences received. Such lamps soon applied to lighting the St. Petersburg admiralty. A few years later, Edison demonstrated an improved light bulb - brighter and cheap in production. With its advent of the light bulb, gas lights quickly disappeared from the city streets, giving way to electrical lighting.

To date, modern street lighting is a complex system that provides optical visibility on the streets of the city in a dark time. It includes thousands of lamps on masts, supports, overpass. They turn on automatically using a light relay in which the photodiode controls the low-voltage chain, and it turns on the lighting, or manually - the dispatcher.

Such an invention as a lantern turned out to be so useful that it was firmly included in everyday life. understandable reasons. Agree that in the civilized world there is no person who would never have used this wonderful adaptation! To begin withdrawing with the world-famous manufacturer of some of the best lanterns in terms of price and quality ratio, I propose to get acquainted with the history of the lantern itself.

Lanterns in history

Starting from the time of "taming" of fire, humanity has always been looking for and invented ways, how to cover life in certain circumstances. The most first and primitive lantern can be called the usual torch, who had a whole bunch of obvious flaws. Then, with the advent of wax, a candle was added to the lighting tools, and with the advent of fuel fuel - the kerosene lamp. Such sources of light, although they were more perfect, but also had their drawbacks - unsafe, short period of work and the release of harmful substances during burning.

The first street lights appeared in England in 1417. It is obliged to the mayor of London - Henry Barton, who found a decree on the coverage of the streets of the city in the evenings, especially in winter.

London lanterns looked pretty pretty.

Subsequently, in 1667, the idea of \u200b\u200billuminating the city in the dark was supported by the French king Louis XIV, ordered to establish oil lights on pillars and houses throughout Paris. He also ordered all the inhabitants to put lamps in the windows of houses overlooking the street.

In our country, for the first time street lamps appeared in St. Petersburg in 1706 by decree of Tsar Peter I, who ordered to place the lights next to the Petropavlovsk fortress as a sign of victory over the Swedes. In 1718, the lighting of the Neva River embankment appeared. And in 1730, street lighting appeared in Moscow.

The first street lamps of St. Petersburg.

The appearance of the first lamp is directly related to the invention of incandescent lamps. Opening made two people at the same time. The first is Russian scientist Alexander Lododgin, who in 1874 patented the lamp in which the coal was first used as a rod, and then tungsten.

The second inventor is American Thomas Edison, which made a lamp (1879) reliable, economical and durable. Success was covered in the material for the rod lamp, which used the charred chips from the bamboo. Edison not only created a model practical and inexpensive in the production of the lamp, but also established mass production.

Subsequently, Edison used as a material for a lamp rod tungsten, which was already applied by his Russian colleague Alexander Lododgin. Here are so two inventors in different countries, you can say, together gave the world to the incandescent lamp.

But back to manual lanterns. Now there is already a reliable and practical source of light, it remains to develop a source of portable energy.

History of batteries

The first electrical battery approximate to modern type was invented before the advent of incandescent lamps in 1866 by the French inventor George Planet. It was a pretty large open glass vessel filled with electrolyte and two elezers. It is clear that such a power source could not be suitable as a battery for a manual lamp. It was a big size, because of what was deprived of mobility. But the main thing is that when changing the position, the liquid could calmly pour out. The situation has changed when in 1896 the German engineer Karl Gessner has developed a small dry-type portable battery, which was a zinc cylinder filled with solid pasty electrolyte.

The first battery with solid electrolyte.

In fairness, it is impossible not to mention the so-called Baghdad battery, which was discovered in 1936 in the vicinity of Baghdad. The item is a vessel of about 2,000 years, inside of which a copper cylinder is located with an iron rod. The throat is flooded with bitumen, and through it another iron rod with corrosion traces. A copy of the find showed that if pouring acid or wine into a vessel, or vinegar, which contains acid, then the "battery" will begin to produce a voltage of 1 volt. Although this does not prove that the vessel at one time was used as a power source, according to many skeptics. But, as they say, we have what we have.

Baghdad battery

So, power supplies and incandescent lamp are invented. It remains to create directly the manual lamp itself.

Manual lanterns

Here the inventor David Missel distinguished himself here, who in 1896 received a patent on a manual flashlight operating from three batteries. The lantern itself had a body from a tree and a switch in the form of a metal plate, which closed the electrical circuit. In 1898, an American, an emigrant from Russian Empire And the inventor Konrad Hubert is based on the company Ever Ready Company for the production of small batteries. By the way, today everyone knows this company as Energizer.

In the same year, he redeems a patent for David and proceeds to the production of manual lanterns. David Maisel stayed together with Conrad, and was engaged in improving the lanterns. So the first lantern appeared for the bike, and in 1899 the first manual lantern is already more familiar to the cylindrical form.

Such lanterns also had a number of shortcomings - they could not shine for a long time (had to turn off the flashlight - he could not give a stable light for a long period), and the light was rather dull.

The more was the case of technology - the company produces the world's first catalog (1899g) and 25 more types of lanterns: desktop, cycling, manual and other options. So the era of manual electric lamps began - essential assistants who came to replace more imperfect and dangerous candles and kerosene lamps. Now you do not need to think about the problem of lighting in opening time And the right place!

Let us turn to the history of one of the most recognizable brands for the production of technological lanterns.

History of Armytek.

It all started in 2007, when a small team from Canada became interested in LED lighting. The situation in this market was such that American and European companies offered reliable decisions, but lagging behind in the technological plan from global trends, and Chinese manufacturers made a bet on accessibility, but at the same time, and were also inferior in quality and technologies. Against the background of such a situation, a young company decided to go to another way and make up the production of products that have all the necessary criteria - relative availability, reliability, quality and manufacturability. And it was already about the production of lighting equipment.

For these purposes, a collective was collected from the best scientists and engineers of aviation, military and even space industries. Due to this, it was possible to achieve stunning results in the production of first-class product. Also an important decision was the use of high-quality components from the United States and Japan, in particular, the best LEDs of the American manufacturer CREE.

So the first tactical lantern of Predator appeared, which at that time contained many innovative solutions. The lantern passed the fierce tests in various climatic conditions.

And in 2009, production was opened in China, due to which the competitive price and mass production was achieved with the preservation of constant quality and modern technologies. To this day, it also contributes to the use of modern equipment, proven materials and a thorough system of quality control of the final product.

The final stage in the establishment of the company was a legal registration in 2010 in Canada under the name Armytek Optoelectronics Inc.

What is so bribe the lights Armytek? As already noted, the use of advanced Japanese and American components, using newest technologies and equipment in production with compliance with quality control, as well as reliability, durability and technologicality. Lanterns calmly carry falling from the tenth floor and immersion under water to a depth of 50 meters. Tactical options withstand the return of weapons of any caliber and continue to work smoothly. All this is reflected in the company's mission - to provide people with reliable and technologically perfect light in the world. The manufacturer's warranty is as much as ten years on any lamp!

And today, Armytek's products are used by many people of different professions and childbirth around the world: employees in the special services, military, workers of security structures, fishermen, hunters, rescuers, firefighters. Simply put, all those who need just such a trouble-free and heavy lamp, with a high-tech filling and a variety of functions.

In the following articles, consider various models of the Armytek lanterns.

To be continued...

People attempted to highlight the streets at the beginning of the XV century. The first of this initiative was the mayor of London Henry Barton. At his disposal, lanterns appeared on the streets of the British capital in the winter period, helping to navigate in the impenetrable darkness.

After some time, the French also attempted to highlight urban streets. At the beginning of the XVI century, the residents ordered the lighting lamps on the windows of Paris's streets. In 1667, a decree of Louis XIV on street lighting was released. As a result, Paris streets were illuminated by many lamps, and the reign of Louis XIV was called brilliant.

In the first in the history of street lamps, candles and oil were used, so the lighting was dim. Over time, the use of kerosene in them made it possible to slightly increase the brightness, but still not enough. IN early XIX. The centuries began to use gas lights, which significantly improved the quality of lighting. The idea of \u200b\u200busing gas in them belonged to the English inventor William Merdoku. At that time, few people treated the invention of Merdok. Some even considered the crazy, but he was able to prove that gas lights possess weight gain. The first in the history of gas lights appeared in 1807 on Paple Melle Street. Soon the same lighting could boast the capital of almost every European state.

As for Russia, here street lighting appeared thanks to Peter I. In 1706, the emperor, celebrating the victory over the Swedes under Kalis, ordered to hang out the lights on the facades of the houses around the Petropavlovsk fortress. Twelve years later, the lanterns illuminated the streets of St. Petersburg. In the Moscow streets, they were established on the initiative of the Empress Anna John.

A truly incredible event was the invention of electrical lighting. The world's first incandescent lamp was created by Russian electrical engineering Alexander Lododyigin. For this, he was marked by the Lomonosov Prize Petersburg Academy of Sciences. A few years later, American Thomas Edison presented a light bulb that better covered and was inexpensive in production. Undoubtedly, this invention has displaced gas lights from urban streets.

In 1417, the London Mayor Henry Barton ordered the lanterns in winter evenings to dispel the impenetrable darkness in the British capital. After a while, his initiative was picked up the French. At the beginning of the XVI century, residents of Paris obliged to keep the lamps from the windows that go outside. With Louis XIV, the French capital filled the lights of numerous lanterns. The "King Sun" issued a special decree on street lighting in 1667. According to the legend, it is thanks to this decree the reign of Louis and called brilliant.

The first street lights gave relatively little light, since they used ordinary candles and oil. The use of kerosene made it possible to significantly increase the brightness of the lighting, however, the real revolution of street light occurred only at the beginning of the XIX century, when gas lights appeared. Their inventor is Englishman William Murdoch - at first subjected to ridicule. Walter Scott wrote one of his friends, that some crazy suggests London to London smoke. Despite such comments, Murdoch successfully demonstrated the benefits of gas lighting. In 1807, the lanterns of the new design were installed on Pales Mall Street and soon conquered all European capitals.

Petersburg became the first city in Russia, where street lights appeared. On December 4, 1706, on the day of the celebration of victory over the Swedes, on the instructions of Peter I, street lamps were posted on the facades of the streets of the streets of the streets to the Petropavlovsk fortress. I liked the king and townspeople, the lanterns began to light on all great holidays, and thus it was the beginning of the street lighting of St. Petersburg. In 1718, King Peter I issued a decree on the "lighting of the streets of St. Petersburg" (a decree of the highlighting of the first-hearth was signed by Empress Anna Ioannovnaya only in 1730). The project of the first street oil lamp was developed by Jean Batiste Leblon, an architect and "skilled technician of multi-solid arts, using a great meaning in France." In the autumn of 1720, 4 striped handsome, made at the Yamburg glass plant, were exhibited on the Neva embankment near the Petrovsky Winter Palace. On wooden poles with white and blue stripes were mounted on metal bar glazed lamps. He canned cannabis oil. So we have a regular lighting of the streets.

In 1723, thanks to the efforts of the Politzmeister General Anton Diviera on the most famous streets of the city, 595 lanterns were lit. Served this light economy 64 lamp. The approach to the case was scientific. The lanterns were lit from August to April, focusing on the "table about the dark clocks", which were sent from the Academy.

The historian of St. Petersburg I.G.Gorgi so describes this lighting on the streets: "For this, there is a wooden bare and white paint on the streets, from which each on the iron rhine supports a spherical lamp, descended on the block for reading and pouring oil ..."

Petersburg was the first city in Russia and one of the few in Europe, where in just twenty years after the founding there was regular lighting of the streets. Oil lights turned out to be a survival - they burned in the city daily for 130 years. Likewise, the lights from them were a bit. In addition, they stored splashing passersby hot droplets of oil. "Next, for the sake of God, then from the lantern!" - We read in the story of Gogol Nevsky Prospect, "" And rather, how much can be passing by. This happiness is still, if you finish the fact that it will fill your south-sorce-smelling oil. "

The lighting of the northern capital was a profitable business, and merchants were eagerly engaged in them. They received a premium for each burning lamp and therefore the number of lamps in the city began to increase. So, by 1794, there are already 3,400 lanterns in the city, much more than in any European capital. Moreover, the St. Petersburg lanterns (in the design of which such famous architectsAs Rastrelli, Felten, Monferran) were considered the most beautiful in the world.

The lighting was not flawless. At all times there were complaints on the quality of lighting streets. Light lights dimly, sometimes they do not burn at all, they quit them ahead of time. It even occasionally believed that the lampors would save oil on the porridge.

Decades in the lanterns burned oil. Entrepreneurs understood the profitability of lighting and began to look for new ways to produce income. With gray 18 V. In the lanterns began to use kerosene. In 1770, the first lampposar team of 100 people was created. (Recruits), in 1808 it was counted for the police. In 1819 on the pharmacy about. Gas lights appeared, in 1835 the Lighting Society was created by Gas St. Petersburg. In 1849, alcohol lanterns appeared. The city was divided between various companies. Of course, it would be reasonable, for example, to replace kerosene lighting gas everywhere. But oil companies were not profitable, and the outskirts of the city continued to be covered with kerosene, as the authorities were not beneficial to spend big money on gas. But long in the evenings on the city streets loomed lamps with ladies behind the shoulders, hurriedly overdue from the lantern to the lantern.

Not one edition ended up the arithmetic textbook, where the task was given: "The lamporger lights lights on an urban street by running from one panel to another. The length of the street is the vest of three hundred seeded, the width is twenty sage, the distance between neighboring lamps is forty-sage, the speed of the lamp is twenty-sagen per minute. Asks how much time he will perform his work? " (Answer: 64 Lantern, located on this street, the flashar will light in 88 minutes.)

But the summer of 1873 came. In a number of metropolitan newspapers, an emergency message was made that "July 11 in Odessa Street, in the sands will be shown to the public the experiments of the electric lighting of the street."

Remembering this event, one of his eyewitnesses wrote: "... I don't remember what sources probably from newspapers, I learned that on such a day, in such an hour, somewhere in the sands, will be shown to the public Experiments of electrical lighting lamps of Lodigina. I passionately wanted to see this new electric light ... Together with us there was a lot of people with the same purpose. Soon, from the darkness, we hit some street with bright lighting. In two street lamps, kerosene lamps were replaced by incandescent lamps that poured bright white light. "

A crowd gathered on quiet and no attractive Odessa street. Some of those who came captured with them newspapers. Initially, these people approached the kerosene lamp, and then to the electric and compared the distance on which it was possible to read.

In memory of this event, a memorial plaque was installed at the house number 60 through Suvorovsky Prospect.

In 1874, the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences was awarded A.N. Lodogin Lomonosov Prize for the invention of the coal incandescent lamp. However, not having received support from the government, nor from the city authorities, Lododigin could not establish mass production and widely apply them to light the streets.

In 1879, 12 electrical lanterns were lit on the new foundry bridge. "Candles" P.N.Jabokkova were installed on lamps manufactured by the project of the architect C.A. Kavos. "Russian light", so dubbed electric lights, produced in Europe a furor. Later, these legendary lanterns moved to the current Ostrovsky Square. In 1880, the first electric lamps shone in Moscow. So, with the help of arc lamps in 1883 on the day of the sacred coronation Alexandra III. The area around the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was lit.

In the same year, the power plant began operations on r. Sink from a police bridge (Firm "Siemens and Galsk"), and on December 30, 32 electric lights illuminated Nevsky Prospect from a large sea street to the fountain. A year later, electric lighting appeared on the neighboring streets. In 1886-99, 4 power plants were already working for the needs of lighting (Society "Helios", the Belgian Society Plant, etc.) and the burned 213 similar lamps. By the beginning of the twentieth century In St. Petersburg there were about 200 power plants. In the 1910s. Light bulbs with metal thread appeared (from 1909 - tungsten lamps). On the eve of the First World War in St. Petersburg, there were 13,950 street lamps (3020 electric, 2505 kerosene, 8425 gas). By 1918, the streets covered only electrical lights. And in 1920 and these few went out.

Petrograd Streets plunged into darkness for two years, and their lighting was restored only in 1922. Since the beginning of the past 90s of the last century, a lot of attention began to be given to the artistic illumination of buildings and structures. Traditionally, the masterpieces of architectural art, museums, monuments, administrative buildings are designed all over the world. Petersburg is no exception. Hermitage, arch of the main headquarters, the building of the twelve colleges, the largest St. Petersburg bridges - Palace, Foundry, Exchange, Blagoveshchensky (former lieutenant Schmidt, and before Nikolaevsky), Alexander Nevsky ... The list can be continued. Created on high artistic and technical level The light design of historical monuments, gives them a special sound.

Walking around the night embankments - an unforgettable spectacle! The soft light and the noble design of the lamps are citizens and guests of the city can evaluate on the streets and embankments of the evening and night Petersburg. A virtuoso bridge lighting will emphasize their ease and rigor and create a feeling of the integrity of this amazing city located on the islands and dotted by rivers and channels.