Economy of the city of Rtishchevo

In 1911, a meat slaughterhouse of the Barselman Brothers joint-stock company began to operate in Rtishchevo. The company was engaged in the purchase and export abroad of chicken eggs , beaten poultry, pork , game and other perishable goods. At the enterprise there was: a refrigerated warehouse for 200 cars equipped with two ammonia system compressors; slaughterhouses with special equipment for the mass slaughter of pigs , salads, sausages, a cellar intended for pork sticks exported to England under the name of green bacon “Bacon” and other premises; three housing feeders for feeding chickens, with a capacity of 36,000 pairs, feeders for live pigs of 500 pieces each, a building for pinching a beaten bird and sorting it. The slaughterhouse had its own power station, equipped with engines from British firms.

In the 1930s, the company was reorganized into an export bacon factory of national importance. The superstructure of the skewer-hair workshop was made, the sausage workshop was expanded, and the scrap workshop was built. In July 1941, due to a lack of qualified personnel, the meat factory was on the verge of closure. It was decided to organize a school on its basis. The first years the school trained builders and butchers . FZU meat processing plant (since the mid-1960s, GPTU-28) ceased to exist in the late 1980s.

In the 1950s, the meat processing plant accounted for about 84% of the total gross industrial output of the city. ^[one]

In 1974, the construction of a feather mill was launched at the meat processing plant , which was commissioned in early January 1978 . The design capacity of the factory was designed to produce 4.5 tons of products per shift. She was one of seven factories of this type, built almost simultaneously in the USSR . The construction of this enterprise and the installation of equipment was attended by the builders of Saratov , Penza , Kursk , as well as German experts, since the technological lines for processing feather and down, sewing products came to Rtishchevo from the GDR . The first masters, technologists and machine operators went through practice in the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky . The main products of the factory were feather-duvets and pillows .

In the early 1990s, the meat processing plant was transformed into the open joint-stock company "Meat processing plant" Rtishchevsky "." Its capacity allowed to process more than 30 tons of cattle per day. During the year, with a stable supply of raw materials, it produced more than 7,000 tons of meat and offal, 3,000 tons of sausages, about 200 kg of cooked feed for animals and poultry, and up to 300 tons of fat. Semi-finished products, boiled, semi-smoked and smoked sausages were produced at the meat processing plant, a new production line for the production of canned meat was launched, and a site for the production of smoked delicacies was equipped. ^[2]

In August 1998, the meat factory and feather mill were closed.

In 2000, the feather factory was acquired by the Moscow Trade House Dargez , Russia's largest producer of bedding and home textiles . Production was launched in June 2001 . Products manufactured by the factory are sold in Voronezh , Saratov , Rostov-on-Don , Khabarovsk and other Russian cities.

Currently, several enterprises operate on the territory of the meat-packing plant: CJSC Dargez-Rtishchevo, CJSC Rtishchevskiye produkty, LLC Ritm and Stroydvor. The main building of the 1911 meat processing plant is in an emergency, dilapidated state.

In April 1963, according to the project of the Saratov Institute "Promproekt" in Rtishchevo, construction of the absorbent cotton factory began. In the summer of 1967, the carding workshop was commissioned and the first test batch of cotton wool was produced. On January 25, 1968, the State Commission signed an act on the acceptance of the Rtishchev absorbent cotton factory. The entire technological process of manufacturing cotton wool was carried out at the factory without the use of manual labor. The Gigrovata factory (later, the Zabota cotton factory) was one of the few in the Soviet Union that produced medical cotton and cotton filters for agricultural needs. Since the late 1990s, the company has produced two types of surgical medical cotton wool: boiled (pressed cotton wool in bales of 50 kg each) and packaged (rolled cotton wool of 250 and 100 grams in individual packaging). In addition to the main product, the enterprise also produced a canvas-stitched packaging cloth. Factory products were shipped to all regions of Russia and the CIS countries . The share of factory products in the total volume of cotton wool production in the Russian Federation for 1998 was 25% ^[3] . In 2010-2011, the factory was closed and disposed of.

On June 6, 1968, the Saratov Mechanical Plant “Generator” opened a turning center No. 51 in Rtishchevo, which was later transformed into a Category IV branch with the direction “cold metal cutting”. In GPTU No. 12, six-month courses were organized at which 36 people were trained in turning, who became the first workers of the branch. Initially, the workshop was located in the workshops of the city power station .

In November 1971, the construction of the first model workshop of the plant was completed, while the Rtishchevsky enterprise became a branch of the Contact plant in Saratov. The factory carried out mainly defense orders. In July 1985, a branch of the Saratov plant was transformed into the Argon plant as part of the Contact production association. In May 1994, the plant acquired the status of an independent enterprise - OJSC Argon (since 1996 OJSC Argon).

Currently, the plant produces electromagnetic drives , security systems for residential and non-residential premises, watchdogs for cars, turn indicators, metal fittings and supports for furniture, industrial machinery and equipment for the production and processing of animal feed, industrial machines for cutting hay , straw and herbs for animal feed, industrial machines for crushing grain into animal feed. At one time, the plant also produced pressure cookers , pots , small sawmills and milking machines . ^[four]

Rewards:

• Gratitude of the Governor of the Saratov region - for his great contribution to the socio-economic development of the region
• Diploma of the International Charity Fund “Patrons of the Century” - for the revival of the traditions of charity and philanthropy in Russia, contributing to the development of spirituality and progress

Factory directors:

• Zhutaev Nikolay Vasilievich ( 1968 - 1971 )
• Makeev Gennady Stepanovich (1971-1978)
• Kurganov Vladimir Mikhailovich (1978-1999)
• Semenov Vadim Anatolyevich (since 1999)

In 1960, on the southern outskirts of the city, the construction of the Rtishchevsk inter-farm poultry farm began. By the time the factory was opened in 1967, poultry houses , poultry houses , acclimatizers , a mill , several storage, service and utility rooms, a garage, an office, and also a house for workers were built. The main products of the factory were chicken eggs and poultry meat.

In the mid-1990s, the poultry farm was reorganized into Poultry Farm LLP, and later into Poultry Farm CJSC.

Currently, the production base of the enterprise has 20 buildings, an incubator , an egg-powder processing workshop, a slaughterhouse, a grinder, a fodder and sausage workshop, as well as a pigsty for 220 animals. CJSC Poultry Farm is the only agricultural enterprise in the city.

In July 1980 , as a result of the reconstruction and expansion of special workshops of the regional production association for the production and technical support of agriculture, a mechanical repair plant was commissioned in the city. A new building for the restoration of parts was built, a new workshop for the restoration of engine blocks was put into operation.

Initially, the plant specialized in the overhaul of tractor engines. Engines for repairs came not only from all areas of the Saratov region , but also from neighboring regions - Penza and Tambov .

In the mid-1990s, the plant mastered the re-equipment of ZIL-130 and GAZ-53 vehicles with the aim of using diesel fuel . In addition, oxygen was produced at the factory, consumer goods ( nails , hedges and nets for front gardens and summer cottages) and spare parts for non-standard equipment were produced. The plant is currently closed.

• References Phonebook. Argon, OJSC (inaccessible link)
• Poultry Farm CJSC

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