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From 1893 in Russia = to 1990

Otis installed its first elevator in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1893 under Alexander III. Nearly 100 years later, in July 1990, Otis beg= an establishing a network of companies operating throughout the former Soviet Union to manufacture, sell, install, maintai= n and modernize elevators of both Otis and local design.