Paramonovskaya Mill , a flour mill of the Russian businessman Paramonov in Rostov-on-Don , was located on the corner of Beregovaya Street and Posokhovskiy Lane (currently it is called “February 7th”).
| Industrial building | |
| Paramonovo Mill | |
|---|---|
 Pre-revolutionary photography | |
| A country |  Russian empire |
| City | Rostov-on-Don |
| Type of building | brick |
| Founder | Posokhov Peter Fedorovich |
| Date of Abolition | |
History
Rostov-on-Don, being the capital of southern Russia, was the largest transport hub, including a river, located on the Don River . A lot of grain was grown in this region, dozens of merchants engaged in the trade in rye and wheat , as well as their processing. The pre-revolutionary Don embankment was a series of barns, warehouses and grain mills, where Don bread was delivered and processed. One of such entrepreneurs was the merchant Pyotr Fedorovich Posokhov , who built the largest and most modern roller mill at the time of the lowering of the Mill Descent. The contribution of Posokhov to providing Rostov and the adjacent bakeries with flour is evidenced by the fact that the Mill Descent was called Posokhovsky in 1888.
In 1889, this mill, together with its vast territory, became the property of another Rostov wheat merchant - Elpidifor Trofimovich Paramonov. With the new owner, the mill worked for only seven years, and was destroyed as a result of a big fire in 1896. In the city, prices for bread instantly skyrocketed, as described in the book by the Don local historian S. D. Shvetsov, “In Old Rostov,” published in 1971. [one]
However, Paramonov rebuilt the burnt six-story building in two years, where he brought and installed new equipment. The restored mill became the largest and most advanced flour-grinding mill in the Russian Empire - it processed up to 100 tons of grain per day, its products were transported throughout Russia, as well as to Italy, Germany, Greece, Turkey, and the Balkans. For this, Paramonov bought steamboats in order to deliver goods to his customers without intermediaries. E.T. Paramonova was called the "bread king of Russia", and Rostov-on-Don - "the barn of the empire." [1] The heart of this bread empire was a six-story mill building on the banks of the Don. Paramonov built up warehouses in the territory not far from the mill along Beregovaya Street, since ships moored nearby on the Don. These warehouses were called Paramonovsky .
After the October Revolution, the mill was nationalized by the Bolsheviks and received the new name "Mill No. 1 of Soyuzkhleb" (later - "State Mill No. 1"). Paramonovskaya mill worked properly until February 7, 1930, when disaster struck. During the night shift, the mill was shocked by a powerful explosion - flour dust exploded in the production rooms - in the main building, ceilings collapsed, a strong fire started. The fire was extinguished for several days. According to experts, the tragedy occurred due to an accidental spark or burning cigarettes when the flour dust suspended in the air detonated . In the same year, Mill Descent was renamed the street on February 7th.
The building has not been restored and is currently in ruins. [2] The memory of this mill is available at the house number 30 on Nizhnebulvarnaya street, which in the 2002 protection list (No. 121) was listed as “House for employees of the Posokhov mill. 1879. "
It is interesting that in 2014 the engine of one of the mills of the merchant Paramonov (most likely the mills in the village of Tsimlyanskaya, now Khoroshevskaya ) was found on the territory of the Ryabichev farm in the Volgodonsk region , which was restored and put into working condition. [3]