The Partnership of the Shapshal Brothers Tobacco Factory is a large industrial company in pre-revolutionary Russia . Production and management of the company were located in St. Petersburg .
| Brothers Shapshal | |
|---|---|
| Type of | Joint-Stock Company |
| Base | 1873 year |
| Founders | Yu. M. Shapshal, A.M. Shapshal, S.M. Shapshal |
| Location |  Russian Empire : St. Petersburg , St. Petersburg Province |
| Key figures | Yufuda Moiseevich Shapshal |
| Industry | tobacco industry |
History
The tobacco factory was founded on October 12, 1873, by the merchant of the 2nd (subsequently 1st) guild of Karaite origin, Yufuda Moiseevich Shapshal , who moved to the capital of the empire from Kiev . The co-founders of the “Trading House“ Brothers Shapshal “”, as the company was originally called, were the brothers Yufud Shapshal Abram and Samuel Moiseevich [2] .
Since its inception, tobacco production has been located in the building where Yufuda Moyiseevich settled at: Rozhdestvensky part, house 13, 4th street (now 4th Sovetskaya street ; in 1913 a tenement house was built on this place). Despite the initial difficulties, resulting in losses after the first year of work, the efforts of the Shapshal brothers after only five years, by 1878 , the company took one of the first places in Russia in terms of tobacco production. [3] .
By 1884, the factory was located in Shapshal’s own house (6 Perekupny Lane ; in 1910, a tenement house was also built on this place), by 1917 - on the corner of Khersonskaya Street , 6, and 13 Perekupny Lane, in a building constructed in 1878— 1879 according to the project of architect Ivan Iudovich Bulanov .
By 1900, the Shapshal brothers factory, along with the partnership of A. N. Bogdanov and Co. and the Laferm tobacco factory, was one of the three largest manufacturers of tobacco products in St. Petersburg.
In 1904, the “Shapshal Brothers” trading house was reregistered into the “Shapshal Brothers” tobacco factory partnership ”, in whose jurisdiction production was transferred.
By 1913, the Shapshal Brothers partnership owned their own stores on Nevsky Prospekt 30 (in the house of the Accounting Bank) and 36 Malaya Morskaya Street (opposite the Yacht Club ).
Particularly popular were the Shapshalov cigarettes of the brands Imperial, Diana, Merchants, Dagmara, Concert, Zarya, Kado, Neva and Express.
After the October Revolution and the subsequent nationalization, production on Khersonskaya Street was called the 4th State Shapshal Tobacco Factory.