About company Governing bodies Production Products suggestions Procurement Vacancies Information disclosure Contacts AvtoKozha-SPb Our awards Publications +7 (812) 600-85-07 About company Joint Stock Company "Kozha" (until 23.06.2015 OJSC "KOZHA") is the oldest Russian manufacturer of natural leather for various purposes. The history of the enterprise begins with the founding in 1857 by the merchant Alexei Mikhailovich Osipov of a tannery on the banks of the Malaya Neva, not far from the Gulf of Finland. The possibility of using the waters of the Malaya Neva for leather dressing was a decisive factor for the construction of a tannery on a site belonging to the "Tsarskoye Selo first guild of the merchant's wife OV Osipova" and intended for "the construction of stone and wooden factory buildings." The main consumer of the leather goods produced by the factory was the military department. The plant received lucrative orders from the military commissariat for the supply of leather and military equipment for the tsarist army. From year to year, the supply of leather and leather goods to large factories in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Bryansk and other cities increased. Relatives of the merchant Osipov invested their capital in a prosperous, "profitable business". So, since 1889 on the basis of the operating factory "the highest" was established the Partnership of leather production and trade in leather, canvas and linen goods under the firm "IA Osipov and K". The partnership mainly produced heavy sole products, as well as pavement, yuft, rawhide and suede leather. After the revolution, the plant was nationalized and in 1922 it was renamed the State Tannery "Marksist". During the years of Soviet power, "Marxist" produced saddle leather and chrome leather for the military-industrial complex, as well as for leather goods and shoe enterprises of the Soviet Union. At present, Joint Stock Company Kozha is a part of the holding of the State Corporation for the promotion of the development, production and export of high-tech industrial products "Rostekhnologii" (GK "Rostekhnologii"). Today JSC "Kozha" supplies leather for the top of ceremonial and casual shoes of military personnel by order of shoe factories, participants in tenders of the Ministry of Defense, as well as shoe, haberdashery and saddlery leathers to domestic enterprises. АО "КОЖА" является членом Санкт-Петербугской торгово-промышленной палаты и членом Российского Союза Кожевенников и Обувщиков. © 2011 АО «Кожа» Разработано в компании "Первый сайт” site001.ru - продвижение сайта в поисковых системах