Artyomsol

The history of the enterprise began in 1881 with the launch of the first salt mine - the Bryantsev mine, which belonged to the private industrial company of General N. I. Letunovsky. Five more salt mines later came into operation.

In 1884, the mines were transferred to the French company, which worked before the 1917 revolution .

In 1919, salt production was restored.

Later, the mines were part of such enterprises as Yugsol (1920), Bakhmutsol (1921), Ukrsoltrest (1925), and Artyomsol (1943).

During World War II, equipment was evacuated to the fields of Baskunchak and Elton in Western Kazakhstan, where salt production was soon organized. The German occupation authorities managed to restore one of the mines at the Artyomovsky deposit, however, it operated intermittently and was flooded three times.

In September 1943, the village of solyarniks was liberated from the Nazi troops, and in December the work of the mines began. In 1944, 435 thousand tons of salt were mined. In 1947, the restoration of the last of the destroyed mines was completed.

Artyomsol as an association was founded in 1976. It includes six mines (mine No. 1 is the oldest, in operation since 1898).

The company was named in honor of Artyom (real name Fedor Andreyevich Sergeev) - a Soviet party and statesman, a Bolshevik .

In 1966, the association was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor .

In Soviet times, the association produced up to 40% of rock salt in the USSR and 88% in Ukraine.

The volume of salt production in 1985 amounted to 6.8 million tons, and in 1991 - 7.2 million tons.

In August 1997, the enterprise was included in the list of enterprises, institutions and organizations of strategic importance for the economy and security of Ukraine ^[3] .

SE "Artyomsol" consists of five geographically separated salt mines (No. 1, 3, 4, 7 and the name of Volodarsky), the single entrances to which are provided by rail and road.

Deposits of the Artyomovsk rock salt deposit are mined at a depth of 200-300 m. As a result of more than a hundred years of underground work, a system of workings of more than 200 km in length has been formed, more than 250,000,000 tons of salt have been recovered, and the volume of voids has exceeded 110,000,000 cubic meters . The underground chapel that existed before the revolution has been restored in spent galleries, cultural events are being held.

In mine workings at a depth of 280-300 m, where salt is no longer being mined, the enterprise has installed the Salt Symphony speleosanatorium, which successfully treats respiratory diseases. Excursions to the salt mine are popular among tourists. Excursions are, in addition to informative, therapeutic in nature.

Production capacity of 7 million tons of salt per year. Field reserves - 13 billion tons. Over 130 years, about 218 million tons were produced ^[4] . The volume of recoverable salt reserves at such rates of production will be enough for more than 1000 years.

Net income in 2013 increased by 16.6% - up to 1 billion 50 million hryvnias, and net profit - by 52%, up to 135 million hryvnias ^[1] .

In 2014, compared with 2013, the decline in salt production and sales amounted to more than 30%, or 1 million 60 thousand tons.

Artyomovsk salt is supplied to 22 countries of the world ^[1] . The largest importer of Artyomsol products was the Russian Federation, and the main consumers of Artyomsol salt in the markets of Poland, Austria, Hungary, Finland, Germany, Denmark and other countries are road operating companies that use salt to remove snow and ice on roads .

On January 26, 2015, Rospotrebnadzor banned the import of Artemsoli production salt into Russia. Since the Russian market accounted for more than 55% of production, in two months (January - February) of 2015, salt production decreased by 25-30%. In order not to reduce workers, the company introduced an incomplete work schedule; at the same time, the company was able to increase export volumes to the European Union by 35% - especially to Hungary, Poland and Latvia ^[2] .

In the first half of 2015, the enterprise managed to maintain production volumes at the 2014 level. But in mid-July 2015, supplies of industrial salt to the enterprise to Russia were limited due to suspicions of the supply of edible salt under the guise of industrial salt. Suspicions were caused by the fact that from January to July 2015 Artyomsol imported 410,000 tons of technical salt into Russia, which is a quarter of the largest volume of the market of technical salt in Russia ^[5] . In June 2015, the company shipped 3094 wagons of salt to Russia, in July - a total of 1810 wagons ^[6] .

In July 2015, the company switched to a shortened four-hour working day ^[6] .

In mid-2016, the ban on the import of edible salt into the Russian Federation was lifted ^[7] .

• Official site Artyomsol
• Speleosanatorium "Salt Symphony"
• Excursion to the salt mine of Soledar
• AC Shubaev - “Artyomsol” , Mountain Encyclopedia . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia. Edited by E. A. Kozlovsky. 1984-1991.
• V.V. ZAYKOV - Salt of Donbass , Newspaper "Science of the Urals", No. 26-27 for 2006