The history of the Glazovsky food processing plant

The history of the Glazovsky food processing plant

News        08/17/2021

A brief history of the plant based on the works of the Glazovsky Museum of Local Lore staff.

In accordance with the Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 2125 of September 11, 1934 "On the structure of the central office of the People's Commissariat of Food Industry (Narcomishcheprom)", food processing plants were created in the country in order to produce food products from local raw materials.

On February 4, 1941, at a meeting of the Glazovsky city Executive Committee, the issue of organizing a food processing plant in the city of Glazov was discussed for the first time. The date of foundation of the Glazovsky city food processing plant should be considered May 17, 1941, when the Charter of the new enterprise was approved at a meeting of the City Executive Committee.

Glazovsky City Food Processing Plant was located in a one-story log building on Freedom Square. The structure of the enterprise included an electric mill in Glazov, two watermills in the villages of Ludoshur and Chirkovka of the Glazovsky district, a subsidiary farm where pigs, dairy cows were kept, there were crops and plantings of vegetables. At the end of 1941, the company opened a kvass and confectionery production, as well as a technical one, in which household soap, wheel ointment, cream were produced.

In 1946-1947, the food processing plant moved to the former bakery of the military department on Kalinin Street, 7 (the modern territory of the medical college). The production facilities were located in a wooden one-story building. On the territory there was a stable, wooden warehouses, under which basements were made, where vats with vegetables were stored. All manufactured products were prepared almost manually, the furnaces worked from the combustion of firewood, the volumes of baked products were insignificant.

By the end of the 1940s, the structure of the city food processing plant included workshops: pastry flour, confectionery sugar, starch, kvass. The combine had an agricultural base in the villages of Chirkovka and Ludoshur. The company produced the following range of products: flour, cereals, bread baking, sauerkraut, salted mushrooms, jam, jam, soft drinks, beer, kvass, carbonated water, mors, jelly, culinary products, pies, jelly, meat and potato cutlets, cookies, ice cream, tea and coffee drinks.

In 1959, the Glazovsky City Food Processing Plant was transferred to a one-story brick building at 14 Zapadnaya Street. (In connection with the reconstruction of the city streets, Zapadnaya Street was renamed Chepetskaya Street, the documents mention the address of the plant - 9 Chepetskaya Street). Later, the one-story building of the combine was completed with the second floor, it housed 3 workshops and an office.

On May 31, 1968, on the basis of a Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the UASSR, the Glazovsky City Food Processing Plant was reorganized into the Glazovsky Fruit and Berry Wine Factory. Due to the reorganization, the product range has increased: gingerbread, cookies, cakes, waffles, fruit and berry wines, beverages, tomato paste.

In 1973, the Council of Ministers of the UASSR approved a technical and working project for the construction of a complex food processing plant in Glazov. In 1976-1977, the project was revised and approved. Construction of the plant resumed in 1982.

On January 10, 1987, as a result of a fire, the Glazovsky fruit and berry Wine factory, located on Chepetskaya Street, ceased to exist. By that time, the new food processing plant on Dragunov St. was already ready to launch the first stage. According to Order No. 24 of January 12, 1987, the new food processing plant was put into operation. In March of the same year, the plant issued its first facility - a confectionery shop for the production of sugar cookies.

On December 29, 1989, confectionery shop No. 2 was put into operation. Three lines were launched: a line of dry biscuits, gingerbread, marmalade.

In 1991, the company had the following structure: confectionery shop No. 1; confectionery shop No. 2; packaging shop; OMTS; ABC premises; finished goods warehouses; raw materials warehouses; material warehouse; mechanical section: workshop, auxiliary, storage and household premises, garage, fuel warehouse; energy service; laboratory and auxiliary premises.

On March 9, 1993, the Glazovsky Food Processing Plant became an open joint-stock company. Despite the difficult economic conditions prevailing in the country, the plant managed to continue increasing output. In 1994, a mini-bakery was installed and put into operation. In cooperation with the German company "Miltitz", the production of pastilles was created, the production of a new range of products was mastered. The company developed small wholesale trade in its own stores "April" (Budennogo Street), "Kolosok" (Republican Street), a store on Kirova Street. April 26 , 1996 the general meeting of Shareholders decided that the company is solvent, its activities are profitable, and its financial position is stable.