About the Nevskaya Palitra Plant
Nevskaya Palitra Artistic Paints Plant are the only Russian company with a full cycle of production of professional art materials.
The enterprise was founded in 1899 - based at the small paints and coatings factory built by Julius Friedlander, the English technologist in 1900 on the embankment of river Chernaya. On December 1, 1934, in accordance with the order of G.K. Ordzhonikidze, the Leningrad Artistic Paints Plant of the All-Russian Association of the paints and coatings industry entered the list of operating factories.
From the moment of its foundation to the present day, the Nevskaya Palitra Plant has been closely cooperating with Russian and foreign artists, listening to their expert opinions, and monitoring market trends and technological innovations. The innovative developments of our own laboratory, time-tested formulations and well-established technologies have made the paints from St. Petersburg the masterstroke of the Russian industry. At the same time, our production staff keeps the secrets of traditional recipes for making paints, and some stages of production exclusively rely on manual labor.
The Nevskaya Palitra Plant produces a wide range of products, including watercolors, oil, tempera, and acrylics paints, gouache, products for children's crafts, as well as additional materials for painting, and decorative and applied arts. Product line choice depends on the creative task that a painter sets himself/herself.
Today, the products of the plant are well-known to both acknowledged masters and beginning painters. Paints of our White Nights and Master Class brands are in the toolkits of eminent artists of Russia, the CIS countries, the Baltics, Europe, the USA and China. The paints developed in the plant laboratory are traditionally used for restoration of masterpieces of the world paintings from the collections of the State Hermitage, the State Russian Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery.
Restorers, painters, graphic artists, decorators, illustrators and designers unconditionally trust the paints with the Plant logo. The high reputation of the Nevskaya Palitra is the result of experience, innovations and the ability to understand the needs of an artist - who is at the heart of the world of art materials.
History of the Plant
50, 000, 000, 000
Tubes of paint sold
63
Countries of operation
30, 000
Liters of paint per hour
That’s how color is born
We search for pigments and produce them
Geologists are on the hunt for new, natural inorganic pigments contained in rocks and minerals. The part of
synthetic inorganic pigments (cadmium, and cobalt) that is especially valuable for painting is produced in
our own pigment workshop.
We create formulations
Pigments are delivered to the chemical laboratory of the plant to develop test and process samples
before starting the mass production. Here we precisely determine, the proportions of pigments, binders and additives
to obtain a particular color.
We make the paint
In order to blend all the components of watercolors and oil paints, they are ground using special paint-grinding machines.
Depending on pigment characteristics, some paints are passed through the shafts
up to 40 times. Acrylic paints are produced using a different technology which involves the use of dissolvers
We control the quality
The finished product is checked for compliance with various indicators: lightfastness, spreading property,
viscosity and covering power. Paints should maintain brightness and purity of tone. If the sample from the
workshop exactly matches the color standard, then technologists launch the mass production of a new product.
Our partners
Foundation of the artist Mikhail Shemyakin
St. Petersburg Union of Artists
Society of watercolourists of St. Petersburg
Molbert Art Gallery
The State Russian Museum
The State Hermitage Museum
Creativity for Good
We support creativity charity projects