Spartak (shoe factory)

The factory was founded in 1916 by the manufacturers Shabanov, Zobnin and Zhulin, who established the Polyar shoe company. The Kazan Shoe Manufactory Partnership bought a two-story warehouse for the company in Sukonnaya Sloboda on Armyanskaya Street (now Spartakovskaya Street ). In addition, a leather factory was opened next to the factory for leather processing. The equipment of the factory itself included a steam engine and machines for tailoring shoes ^[2] . Three years after the opening, 980 people worked at the factory.

By the Decree of the Supreme Economic Council on February 7, 1920, the factory was nationalized and transferred to the administration of Tatkozh (from January 1, 1922 - Tatkozhtrest). In the same year, to train specialists for the factory and related productions, the Kazan regional leather technical college of Tataria, the Urals and Siberia (now the Kazan College of Light Industry ) was opened ^[3] .

In 1922, at the suggestion of the workers, the factory received the name "Spartak", in honor of Spartak ^[2] . In October of the same year, it was reorganized into the Kazan leather and shoe factory “Spartak”.

In 1928, a new factory building was built, combining the premises of a shoe factory and a leather factory. Subsequently, other factory buildings were built on the adjacent territory. For example, in 1934, a 2-storey wool-wash room was erected.

During the first five-year plan , in 1932, the number of workers reached 2857 people.

During the Great Patriotic War, the factory produced more than a million pairs of shoes a year. She delivered to the front soldiers' boots and fur boots ^[2] . The plant continued to expand due to the fact that the equipment and workers of the Gomel Trud shoe factory were evacuated to Kazan.

After the war, the model shoe workshop was reconstructed. The factory itself was automated - it had 28 conveyors, many semi-automatic machines ^[2] .

On August 1, 1962, the Kazan factory of children's shoes was attached to Spartak. The company employed about 5,000 people. The daily output of shoes reached 24 thousand pairs ^[2] .

Subsequently, the Kazan shoe factory also included Zelenodolskaya and Chistopol shoe factories ^[2] ,. On June 11, 1964, the plant was renamed the Spartak Tatar Production Shoe Association (TPOO Spartak). In 1965, Spartak produced 155 shoe models, up to 9 million pairs a year.

In the 1980s, the volume of products produced by Spartak reached 11.5 million pairs of shoes (children's, model women's and men's shoes for all seasons, tarpaulin boots, high boots and booties) per year ^[2] . Since 1989, the company was called the Tartar Industrial and Commercial Shoe Association "Spartak" and also included the Yoshkar-Ola shoe factory (since 1977).

In 1991, the factory began to be called the “Tartar Industrial and Commercial Shoe Association“ Spartak ”. In accordance with the Decree of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan "On measures to transform state enterprises, organizations and associations into joint-stock companies" dated September 26, 1992 No. UP-466, the enterprise was transformed into a joint-stock company .

Since August 27, 1994, the company became known as Open Joint-Stock Company “Spartak Shoe Association”, and in 2000 the company received a new name “Spartak Shoe Open Joint-Stock Company”.

In the 1990s, output fell significantly. According to the factory visitor, during the celebration of its 85th anniversary, in 2001, President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev, the enterprise passed “a very difficult, painful time” ^[4] .

In 2001, according to the Kommersant newspaper, Spartak was one of the twenty largest manufacturers of shoes in Russia ^[5] .

Since July 18, 2003, the company has been using the name OAO Spartak Shoe Factory. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the volume of products produced by Spartak has been increasing annually; new company stores are opening.

In the 2000s, production facilities were significantly reduced at the enterprise. In addition, in 2007-2012, the number of employees was halved. In 2012, the project “Building the Spartak Production System Based on the Principles of Lean Production ” ^[6] was implemented.

At the end of 2010, the main shareholders of the company were AIKB Tatfondbank (97.8% of the shares) and general director of the factory Raikhat Ziyatdinovich Garipov (0.9% of the shares). As of December 31, 2011, 97.3% of the shares belonged to Spartak-Finance LLC, and 0.9% to R. Z. Garipov. In April 2012, it became known that R.Z. Garipov became the owner of the company, having completed a deal on the closed subscription of an additional issue of 100 million shares of the factory, which comprise 95.89% of the authorized capital of the company. He bought securities at a nominal price of 10 rubles apiece, having paid 1 billion rubles ^[7] .

The main activity of the factory is the production and sale of footwear from natural and artificial leather, textiles. Currently, Spartak produces shoes of three brands: Spartak (classic shoes), Won ton (bright and fashionable shoes) and Poliar (sports shoes); about 500,000 pairs per year.

The company has its own well-developed retail network (operated by a subsidiary of Spartak Trading House LLC, and the wholesaler is a subsidiary of Polyar LLC), which numbers more than 80 Spartak shoe stores in 23 cities of Russia by mid-2012 (39 stores - in the cities of the Republic of Tatarstan, 12 of them - in Kazan) ^[6] . Since 2005, the company has also been operating in the markets of the CIS countries. The official documents of the company announced its intention in 2012 to expand its retail network to 200 stores ^[7] .

In 2010, Spartak increased its production volume compared to 2009 by 21.5% to 510 thousand pairs (the company's sales in 2010 also increased and amounted to more than 236 thousand pairs) ^[7] .

According to the company's estimates, it occupies 1% of the Russian shoe market (the volume of which is estimated at 400-450 million pairs, or about $ 23 billion / year for 2012), which makes it possible to state that it is one of the largest Russian footwear manufacturers (in the domestic producer accounts for about 15% of the shoe market in the mass of goods and less than 10% in monetary terms). According to official documents, by the end of 2012, the factory intends to increase its share in the Russian shoe market to 1.5% ^[7] .

OJSC “Spartak Shoe Factory” participates in the Association of Industrial Enterprises, has joined the National Shoe Union.

• In the early 1930s, N. G. Peysakhovsky worked as a cutter at the factory.
• In 2011, the former head of the factory, Ramis Gizetdinov, was sentenced by the court to imprisonment for three years and ten months on probation, on the charge of being a factory director (in 1999-2003) for a fee, helped raiders steal the property of Spartak headed by him "For 8 million rubles ^[8] .

• Essays on the history of the Tartar shoe association Spartak. - Kazan: Tatar book publishing house, 1966. - 136 p.

• Official website of the Spartak shoe factory