Lighting Technologies marks 24th anniversary

01 - 01 january 1970
On 1 August 1998, the company produced its first lamp at its plant in Ryazan. We consider this date to be the actual birthday of the company that is now Russia's leading manufacturer of lighting equipment, developer of lighting control systems and a key player in the Russian economy.

These are some of the events that happened in 1998, as Lighting Technologies was taking its first steps:
The Russian government’s default
The Russian Soyuz TM-28 spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. For the first time, the crew included an actual politician Yury Baturin
The French national football team won the World Cup for the first time after beating Brazil 3:0 in the finals
Clinton–Lewinsky high-profile political scandal in America
Google was founded
U.S. and UK launched military operation Desert Fox on Iraq
After conducting nuclear tests, India became the sixth country to join the nuclear club
Doctors performed the first human brain cell transplant

The company's early years are in the photo gallery