Samson (meat factory)

It was commissioned in 1933 ^[2] . The main enterprise of the association was the Leningrad meat factory. In Soviet times, it was the second largest enterprise in the industry in the USSR ^[3], with the simultaneous closure of similar production facilities at the Sketeprigonny dvor on the International (now Moskovsky) avenue . Before the opening of the new meat-processing plant, the statues of the bulls, which had been standing at the gates of the Sketeorium Yard from the 19th century, facing the Obvodny Canal, were moved to its gate.

In the 1970s The cattle primary processing plant processed 1,500 cattle, more than 2,500 pigs and 2,000 sheep per shift, the meat-processing plant processed 1,000 head of poultry per hour, produced 15 thousand conditional cans of deli canned food and 45 tons of lumpy meat products for catering enterprises. Since 1992, it was called Samson. The company united:

• Plant for the processing of livestock with a production refrigerator and the case of technical manufactures (ZPS)
• Meat-processing plant (first) with sausage and meat-culinary production (MPZ — 1)
• Meat-processing plant (fourth) with sausage, meat-canning and meat-culinary production, as well as a line of slaughter and gutting of land poultry (MPZ — 4)
• Plant for the production of medical products from biological animal raw materials (ZMP)
• Production of dry meat broths (ZSB)
• Spice production "Flavoring"
• Sausage factory (Kronstadt)
• Factory feather products (Krasnoye Selo).

During Soviet times, the enterprise also included the Second Sausage Factory and the 3rd Sausage Factory (Parnas), before that also the Luga Sausage Factory.

On January 24, 1944, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

In the early 1990s. produced more than 500 kinds of meat products. From the horn and bone, the specialized site produced more than 100 items of household art products and souvenirs (crochet hooks, beads, earrings, souvenir products). In the late 1990s, productivity dropped to 20 tons per day. In 1998, the Moscow Industrial Bank (MInBank) became the largest shareholder of the plant. In 2000, declared bankrupt ^[4] . Since 2001, the plant’s general director was Khamzat Arsamakov, the nephew of the head of the Minbank Abubakar Arsamakov . It has a scandalous reputation largely due to the conflict with Salolin OJSC due to 54 hectares of land and the Yamadaev raid on September 15, 2006 ^[5] . At present, it has been decided to liquidate the enterprise, there are plans for the development of the territory ^[6] .

CEOs:

• Pochtary Yuri (until the early 1990s)
• Savelyev Yury Nikolaevich

The brand "Samson" is currently owned by the company "Vsevolozhsky Meat Processing Plant", which manufactures products under this brand on the production site in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region.

The meat-processing plant built in the early 1930s is an outstanding monument of the era of industrialization and Leningrad constructivism . The head of the team of architects - N. A. Trotsky . This work was the development of Trotsky's constructivist ideas in industrial architecture, following the glass factory in the village of Belyhok ( 1926 ), the prototype for which was the hat factory in Luckenwald , built by E. Mendelson , and the boiler room of the 2nd CHP on Novgorodskaya Street ( 1930 ).

The complex was built in the then distant suburb of Leningrad - at the Middle Slingshot - using the “folk construction” method. Production was designed in-line and as mechanized as possible, the most advanced meat processing plants of that time, the American, were taken as a model. Each link of the production cycle was located in a separate structure, all structures were combined into a single system, both technologically and compositionally. Refrigeration and sausage shop, lifstag (pre-slaughter livestock), products and recycling are connected by elevated passages. The structures are reinforced concrete , the walls are made of cinder blocks . The CHP building is made of reinforced concrete folded walls only 30 cm thick.

The dominant feature of the complex is a six-story refrigerated sausage shop with a 42-meter water tower, which also included administrative premises. This is one of Trotsky's favorite techniques, used, for example, in the building of the Kirovsky District Council . Most of the construction volumes are rectangular, with the exception of a lifestag with a rounded portion with arcuate horizontal ribbon windows.

In 1936, bronze sculptures of bulls (sculptor V. I. Demuth-Malinovsky ) were transferred to the main entrance, transferred from the Scotoprion courtyard (Embankment Canal Embankment, 100) during its reorganization into a dairy plant. [1] [2]

The complex was awarded a gold medal at the 1937 Paris World Exhibition .

During the Great Patriotic War, sculptures, as a monument of historical heritage, were evacuated to the territory of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. [3]

There is a legend that once sculptor Vasily Ivanovich Demuth-Malinovsky had a dream in which the bulls came to life and came to him. After the death (1846) of Demuth-Malinovsky, this story was gradually forgotten. In 1941, the sculptures were evacuated from the looming front into the territory of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, on the territory of which Demuth-Malinovsky was buried.

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  Sculptures carried over from the gates of the former Scotoprion yard

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  Main gate

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  Former School of Masters

• The painting "Cadets of the Naval School named after MV Frunze at the construction of a meat processing plant in Leningrad." Artist Sergey Anikin, 1934. Presented by the Leningrad Meat Processing Plant to the Naval School named after M.V. Frunze. In 1988 transferred to the funds of the Central Naval Museum. ^[7]

• Avant-garde in the architecture of Leningrad

• BM Kirikov, M. Shtiglits. Architecture of the Leningrad avant-garde. Guide. - SPb. : Kolo , 2008. - p. 184-189. - 312 s. - ISBN 978-5-901841-49-5 .

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