Shoe factory Alpinist engaged in manufacture and disposal of:
1. Special footwear for employees of guarding companies and services
2. Industrial workman footwear
3. Footwear for hunters
4. Footwer for active rest and tourism

The shoe factory "Alpinist" primordial planned and started to work as a fanufacturer of leather footwear for extreme sports including mountaineering and alpinism. "Alpinist" was founded by the group of associates consisted of specialists in footwear producing and professional mountain-climbers. In creation of the "Alpinist" shoe factory took part our friends - honoured master of sports of the USSR Balyberdin V.S. (the national hero, first of the soviet alpinists who surmounted the Everest); honoured master of sports of the USSR Shopin V. (another great alpinist who was the member of the team surmounted the Everest in 1980).
And so historically comes the name of our factory and trade mark Alpinist registered in 1988.
Later, on the basis of time-proved montaieering footwear technological working outs, "Alpinist" had created new models of special purpose shoes for servicemen of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. New models were created in collaboration with Central Scientific Research Institute of Tanning and Footwear Industry under the control of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russian Federation, particularly in collaboration with the consultants-representatives of elite troop of Main Departnent of Internal Affairs of Leningrad and Leninrgad region Snetkov A.V., Nesterov V. and Salov A.
Today the labour collective of our factory consists of the best specialists in footwear fanufacturing in Saint-Petersburg. Together with experienced old-school labours, who gained their experience in 70-80's on the shoe factory "Skorokhod" (the first-rate european footwear manufacturer at that times), young qualified specialists works on our factory: graduates of The Technology and design University - modellers, production engineers, unit managers; graduates of technical schools and lyceums - skilled workmen, operators and others.
On the 14 april of 2004 shoe factory "Alpinist" successfully celebrated its 16-th anniversary.