Pivnenkovsky sugar factory

A beet-sugar factory two miles from the village of Trostyanets, Trostyanetskoy volost, Akhtyrsky district, Kharkov province of the Russian Empire ^[1] was built and commissioned in the early 1860s ^[2] .

At this time, the working conditions at the plant were difficult, the working day was 12 hours (worked two shifts with an interval of one hour), and industrial injuries were high ^[2] .

During the first Russian revolution in September 1905, sugar factory workers went on strike with the requirements of an 8-hour work day , higher wages and better working conditions. The strike lasted six days and was crushed by the arriving Akhtyrsky cavalry regiment , after which the organizers of the strike, Zalavsky, Zaydenshner and Zubchenko, were exiled to Siberia ^[2] .

1918 - 1991

At the end of December 1917, Soviet power was established in Trostyants, and on January 12, 1918, the Council of Workers and Peasants' Deputies and the Executive Committee were elected, but already in April 1918 the village was occupied by Austro-German troops (who remained here until November 1918), in further until December 1919, it remained in the combat zone of the civil war ^[2] .

Subsequently, the Pivnenkovsky sugar factory (named after the worker Y. G. Pivnenko, who was shot by Denikins in August 1919) resumed work. In 1921, he produced 1360 pounds of sugar, in 1926 - over 600 thousand pounds. During this time, the number of plant workers increased to 600 people, and labor productivity - by 155% ^[2] .

To improve the skills of workers in 1922, a school of factory training was established at the sugar factory ^[2] .

In the 1930s, factory workers participated in the Stakhanov movement, at the same time a brass band was created at the enterprise ^[2] .

In 1939, there were almost 1,500 workers at the plant, the capacity provided processing of 8.5 thousand centners of beets per day (which was almost two times higher than the level of 1917) ^[2] .

During the Great Patriotic War from October 10, 1941 to August 9, 1943, the city was occupied by German troops , during the occupation the Nazis completely destroyed the enterprise ^[2] .

In accordance with the fourth five-year plan for the restoration and development of the national economy of the USSR, the sugar factory and the local state farm that provided it with beets were restored, while in 1946 the machine repair shops of the factory became a separate enterprise ^[2] .

In late 1960, Trostyanets was connected to the country's unified power grid and gasified, which made it possible to reconstruct the enterprise ^[2] . Subsequently, the sugar factory and beet farm were merged into the Pivnenkovsky sugar factory ^[3] , which mastered the production of sugar from sugar cane .

In general, in Soviet times, the sugar factory was one of the leading enterprises in the city ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]} .

After 1991

After the independence of Ukraine, the plant was transferred to the state committee of the food industry of Ukraine ^[7] .

In July 1995, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved a decision on the privatization of a sugar factory providing it with raw materials from the Pivnenkovsky beet farm, as well as supporting the activities of a state farm of the district agricultural chemistry department ^[7] . After that, the state enterprise was transformed into an open joint stock company .

In addition to processing sugar beets, he continued to process sugar cane ^[8] .

In the spring of 2002, the Dnepropetrovsk investment group Interpipe became the owner of the enterprise, but in May 2004 it was sold to the company Sumyagrosakhar LLC ^[9] . In 2006 - 2007 The liquidation procedure of Sumyagrosakhar LLC and the sale of its property and assets began.

In April 2007, the Sumy Region Economic Court, in a lawsuit filed by the Kiev insurance company Insurance Capital, began the consideration of the bankruptcy case of Pivnenkovsky Sugar Plant OJSC. In May 2007, a register of creditors' claims on the plant was approved, the debt of which was estimated at the All-Ukrainian Joint-Stock Bank at 7.7 million hryvnias, and another 1.7 million hryvnias were tax debts. In September 2007, the creditors committee, which was headed by VAB Bank, demanded the liquidation of the enterprise ^[10] .

In 2012, the plant has already ceased to exist ^[11] .