Neva paper station

Neva Stationery Factory was founded in 1839-1840. the merchant of the 1st guild, a hereditary honorary citizen Alexander Ivanovich Vargunin, together with the British submitted by John Hobbert, was built on land acquired for 65 thousand rubles. at the manufactories of the adviser Tribodino, the St. Petersburg merchant A. Grigoriev and at the state-owned brick factories. The factory became the first enterprise on the right bank of the Neva , in the territory of the modern Nevsky district . The equipment of the factory, as well as the craftsmen serving it, arrived from England. After some time, the share of the Englishman Hobbert was bought out and transferred to the younger brother of A. I. Vargunin, Pavel Ivanovich ^[2]

The complex of factory buildings was built on the current Oktyabrskaya Embankment (house No. 54-56) according to the project of architect L. L. Schaufelberger.

The factory of the Vargunin brothers, arranged according to the English model, for its time was considered one of the most advanced enterprises, including by high international industrial standards. Here, for the first time, steam engines were used for paper production in Russia. Later, a machine of the design of A. I. Vargunin for continuous sizing and drying of role paper was installed at the factory, which happened long before the introduction of such technologies in England. In addition to state-of-the-art production technologies, the paper mill also had housing for workers, a school, a church, a bathhouse and a laundry room. The Varguninsky factory became the first Russian enterprise to be awarded a medal at the World Exhibition ( London , 1851 ). In 1874 , paper production from straw was also first mastered here. ^[3]

Repeatedly completed and modernized during the second half of the XIX century. by the 1900s Vargunin factory was the largest in Russia. Four paper machines operated on it; production was discussed by more than 700 workers. At the same time, the construction of new production buildings and the reconstruction of old ones did not stop.

In 1907 , a severe fire broke out at the factory, destroying two paper machines, as well as a paper sizing machine and dryer. In addition, many buildings and factory equipment of the factory suffered from the fire.

In 1910 , the factory was transferred to the new owners (Vamsberg Banking House) and was reorganized into the Joint-Stock Company of the Neva Paper Station in St. Petersburg. ^[4] Under this name, the enterprise existed until the nationalization that followed in 1918 .

In Soviet times, the factory changed its name several times: Paper mill named after Volodarsky, Leningrad Paper Mill No. 2. In 1994 , the former Nevskaya Vargunins paper station was incorporated and reorganized into OJSC Paper Factory. ^[five]

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