Odessa Agricultural Engineering Plant

1854 - 1917

The Joint-Stock Company I.I. Gene Plant was founded in 1854, it produced and repaired agricultural machinery and implements ^[2] (various plows , reapers, straw choppers , corn threshers, etc.) ^[3] .

The factory workers took an active part in the revolution of 1905 - in 1905 they went on strike for nine weeks, but after the arrest of the strike committee in June 1905 the police and Cossacks dispersed the workers with shots ^[3] .

After the outbreak of World War I, the plant was involved in the execution of state military orders in 1914-1916. fulfilled orders of the military department ^[3] .

On March 19, 1917, by the decision of the Odessa Council, an 8-hour working day was introduced at the industrial enterprises of Odessa (including the I. I. Gene factory) ^[4] . Subsequently, under the leadership of A. Popov and A. M. Trofimov, the Red Guard detachment was created at the plant, which became one of the most combat-ready Red Guard detachments in Odessa ^[5] .

1918 - 1991

After the October Revolution, the plant was nationalized. During the Civil War, the enterprise suffered, but in 1920, the restoration of the plant began. In 1922, the plant received a new name: Odessa Agricultural Engineering Plant named after the October Revolution ^[2] .

Since 1926, the plant began to produce tractor plows ^[3] .

Subsequently, the plant was reconstructed and expanded: in 1929–1940, a foundry, a mechanical repair shop, and a mechanical assembly shop were built, conveyor production lines were installed and put into operation ^[2] .

By the beginning of 1939, the plant was one of the largest engineering enterprises in Odessa ^[6] .

By the beginning of World War II, the plant had a foundry, a mechanical repair shop, a hardware workshop and a mechanical assembly shop, the company produced several types of horse and tractor plows (including shrub, swamp and planting plows), harrows , cultivators , tillering machines , ditch diggers, beet lifters and other tillage machines ^[3] .

At the beginning of July 1941, the creation of fighter battalions and units of the national militia began in Odessa, into which two thousand workers of the October Revolution factory joined the workers of other Odessa enterprises ^[7] . They underwent military training on the job (in the form of daily exercises lasting 2-3 hours) and participated in the defense of Odessa ^[8] .

Due to the approach of the front line to the city, the plant equipment was evacuated to the city of Rubtsovsk, Altai Territory, where it became the basis for the creation of the Altayselmash plant. During the war, the enterprise produced military products, as well as horse and tractor plows ^[2] .

During the hostilities and during the occupation, the plant was completely destroyed, but already in 1944 the restoration and technical re-equipment of the enterprise began ^[2] .

In 1946 - 1953 the plant organized production lines for the production of plowshares, created a line of modular machines for processing strips of frames, racks of the skimmer and the main body of the plow ^[3] .

In the years 1947-1949. the plant mastered the production of cast iron sheet, which was widely used as a roofing material (in 1951, for the development and development of the process of producing a thin sheet directly from molten iron, the plant’s engineer EG Nikolaenko and KT Getman, the cupola worker, became laureates of the Stalin Prize) ^{[ 3]} .

From 1944 to 1954, the plant manufactured over 300 thousand tillage machines ^[3] .

In 1954, the evening branch of the machine-tool college was opened at the plant ^[3] .

As a result of an increase in production capacity, in 1959 - 1973 the gross output of the plant increased 3.2 times ^[2] .

In 1966, the plant them. The October Revolution was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor ^{[1] [2]} .

In 1973, the plant became the parent company of the Odessaapochvomash production association ^{[1] [2]} (which also included the Zhdanovselmash plant, the agricultural machinery factory in Kamenetz-Podolsky, the head specialized design bureau, and the construction and installation department). In the following years, automation and mechanization of production processes continued ^[9] .

In 1978, a monument to the ZOR soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War (sculptor V. Sokolovsky, architect A. Donets) was erected in front of the main entrance to the plant.

In Soviet times, the plant was one of the largest agricultural engineering enterprises of the USSR ^{[1] [2] [9]} , by the end of the 1980s, the main products of the plant were tillage machines ^[1] (plows, harrows, cultivators, etc.), as well spare parts for agricultural machinery ^[10] .

After 1991

After the independence of Ukraine, the plant became the largest enterprise producing agricultural machinery in Ukraine ^[10] . Later, on the basis of the plant, an open joint-stock company “Odessa Agricultural Engineering Plant” was established.

September 1, 1993, which was on the balance sheet of a vocational school No. 34 (with workshops and a canteen) was transferred to the municipal property of the city ^[11] .

In August 1997, the plant was included in the list of enterprises of strategic importance for the economy and security of Ukraine ^[12] .

Later, the owner of the plant was the open joint-stock company Odesselmash. The plant completed 2006 with a profit of 212 thousand hryvnias ^[13] .

The economic crisis that began in 2008 complicated the situation of the plant, but on July 1, 2008 PrivatBank opened a revolving credit line for the company for $ 14.46 million (on July 30, 2008 the plant received the first tranche of $ 149,226.3) ^{[ 14]} .

The plant completed 2009 with a net loss of 11 million 268 thousand hryvnias ^[15] .

In 2012, the Inspectorate of State Architectural and Construction Control of Odessa region found that unauthorized buildings were erected on the factory territory ^[16] .

By the beginning of 2013, the plant was in a deep crisis ^[10] .

In February 2013, it announced its intention to use the plant’s territory for the construction of a sports complex in the form of a giant washer with a diameter of 110 meters for Eurobasket 2015. IV Kolomoisky was to become the sponsor of the construction ^[17] , but this project remained unrealized.

The plant completed the year 2015 with a net loss of 60.79 million hryvnias (which is 7% more compared to 2014) ^[18] .

• Odessa: a sketch of the history of the hero city. / holes Ed .: S. M. Kovbasyuk. Odessa, Odessa Regional Publishing House, 1957.
• A. N. Dolzhenkova, P. F. Dyachenko. Odessa. 4th ed. Odessa, The Lighthouse, 1978. - 191 pp., Ill.