Tomsk Rubber Shoe Factory

The Tomsk plant of rubber footwear was created during the Great Patriotic War on the basis of the Moscow factory "Red Bogatyr" evacuated in October 1941.

The evacuation of the plant (equipment, workers with families) coincided with a period of intensified attacks by enemy aircraft on Moscow, which complicated the work on loading equipment. Therefore, most of it arrived in Tomsk in a disassembled form. Subsequently, it took heroic efforts to ensure the selection of components and parts and their delivery to the installation site in the harsh winter conditions of Tomsk.

A few days before the first batch of equipment and workers arrived in Tomsk, the General Plan of the plant was developed and approved. The plant was located in the center of the city, in unsuitable premises - the former church buildings, the Kauchuk trading company, warehouses, stables, and the coach house. The team put a lot of work to rebuild these premises for industrial purposes.

At the end of January 1942, designers arrived in Tomsk and joined the work. There were no tables and chairs, instead of furniture and pots, drawers were used from under the equipment. Already on February 6, 1942, the construction department received the first drawings for the construction and installation work of the electrical substation, without which the power equipment could not be started.

In the construction and installation was attended by all, without exception, workers, managers, specialists. Installation of equipment of the first stage was completed 5 months after its arrival. By this time, the equipment of preparatory, press, and confectionary (assembly) shops were repaired and commissioned: calenders, rollers, worm presses, conveyors, elevators, vulcanization boilers. A part of the equipment of auxiliary shops necessary for the start of production was also installed: a steam boiler, a transformer substation, a temporary water pumping station, and a compressor station.

In May 1942, the plant began the development and production of military products for the needs of the Red Army. The organization was named "Rubber Products Plant", and since August 1942, this name was replaced by "Defense Plant No. 765".

In March 1943, the installation of heavy equipment of the second stage (two vulcanization boilers) was completed and the equipment of a number of auxiliary workshops was put into operation: a second compressor, a pump, and two steam boilers. Somewhat later, a permanent water pumping station was commissioned.

The increase in the production of military products was severely hampered by interruptions in the supply of electricity, fuel, textile and building materials, components, and a shortage of manpower. And yet, output has steadily increased. Training has begun at the school FZO ...

The war is coming to an end, and the industry is rearranged to meet the needs of the rear. There is a need to change the profile of the plant. At the direction of NarComRezinProm, the plant had to master the production of rubber footwear - glued galoshes. In October 1944, the plant began preparing for the transition to civilian products, and in the fourth quarter of this year, a large vulcanization boiler, a carousel polishing table for galoshes, an elevator for feeding parts, a conveyor belt, a drying cabinet, and two conveyor belts were mounted and commissioned.

Mastering the production of galoshes began in November 1944. The average daily overshoot at that time was 400-800 pairs.

At the same time, work was carried out to equip auxiliary workshops and service farms. Mechanical repair, foundry, construction and electrical shops, as well as warehouses for chemicals, textiles, rubbers, for finished products were organized in the converted premises. A wide-gauge railway line was laid to deliver goods to the factory and ship finished products.

A social sphere was created: a canteen, six workers' hostels were equipped, ORS, bread and food shops, a farm, a kindergarten, a health center were organized.

In 1945, the plant produced already 30,000 pairs of galoshes per day. In manual labor, this required the involvement of a large number of workers-killers, who were trained in the school FZO under the guidance of experienced craftsmen.

The five-year plan of the plant for 1946-1950, approved by NarKomRezinProm, provided for a partial reconstruction of the plant and bringing the production of rubber footwear to 35,000 pairs per day.

In the fifties, mastered the production of molded footwear, as well as rubber products for agriculture, engineering, aircraft.

The 70s and 80s are years of intensive technical development of the plant. The plant was reconstructed with relocation of capacities from the city center to a new industrial site at 217 Lenin Ave. During technical re-equipment of capacities, the main part of the vulcanization presses fleet was updated, new types of molded footwear were mastered. The production was equipped with new casting units of Italian and German production. Mastered the production technology of shoes by liquid molding polyurethane foam. An automated production management system was introduced. The plant concentrated all types of polymer shoe production technologies used in the world. To solve the problem of personnel, production sites in the village of Samus and Sailor. In der. Damage (Itatka village) created auxiliary agriculture plant. In fact, a rebirth of the plant took place, but at the modern level for that time. As a result, the plant was able to produce a wide range of products:

· Special-purpose footwear - mining, tunneling, oil and fat, acid resistant, heat resistant, fishing uniform boots, oil frost resistant shaped galoshes;

· Shaped boots and garden galoshes;

· Glued lacquered galoshes of eastern styles;

· PVC injection plastic shoes - boots and boots, walking shoes;

· Molded and non-molded rubber products for various purposes, raw (commercial) rubber compounds.

All this made it possible to increase the output of the main products - shoes - from 16 million pairs in 1963 to 24 million pairs in 1990, which created the basis for the successful work of the team. Achieving high results, the plant has repeatedly emerged victorious in the All-Union socialist competition and in a competition of local proportions. Thus, by the decision of the Ministry of Chemical and Oil Refining Industry of the USSR and the Central Committee of the branch trade union No. 110/42 dated February 22, 1990, the personnel of the plant was recognized as the winner in the all-Union socialist competition with the award of the rolling Red Banner Ministry. And earlier, in 1972, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the USSR, the plant (one of the few) was awarded the Jubilee Badge of the CPSU Central Committee, the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Council and the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions and the commemorative Red Banner of the Tomsk Regional Committee of the CPSU and the regional executive committee.

The plant’s contribution to the development of the Tomsk region’s economy was notable. The total number of jobs organized by the plant, allowed to take decently paid work about six thousand people. In 1990, the plant employed 5.6% of the total number of workers employed in the industry of the region, and 8.7% of the number of employees in the industry of Tomsk. Divisions of the plant were located at 6 sites within the city and in three rural settlements of the region.

In that year, 19.2% of the general regional production of consumer goods (TYPE) was manufactured at TZRO. This amounted to 189 million rubles. Of the total revenue from the implementation of the TYPE 42 million rubles. sent to the state budget as a turnover tax. TZRO was one of the largest tax payers in Tomsk.

During the years of the plant’s operation, the following social facilities were built, later (during privatization) transferred to the municipal balance (the residual value is indicated in the assessment as of July 1, 1992):

· Six children's institutions (660 thousand rubles);

· Housing and communal services (5709 thousand rubles);

· Recreation center with a pioneer camp (2,468,000 rubles);

· Sports complex (395 thousand rubles);

· Shop "Elastic" (441 thousand rubles);

· Shop "Vegetables" (139 thousand rubles);

· Unfinished construction of social facilities (21703 thousand rubles.).

By the beginning of the restructuring, the Tomsk Rubber Footwear Factory, as a state-owned enterprise subordinate to the USSR Ministry of Chemical and Petrochemical Industry, was the third enterprise in the industry in terms of footwear production after the Krasnoye Triangle (St. Petersburg) and the Krasny Bogatyr MPO (Moscow), and in the region east of the Urals - the largest rubber-shoe enterprise of the Soviet Union.

During the period of perestroika (in 1993), the plant was transformed from a state enterprise by privatization into an open joint stock company (OAO TZRO).

In these difficult years for the entire Russian industry, the fate of the industry’s enterprises evolved differently, but they all repeatedly reduced their production volumes. The capital "Red Hero" and "Red Triangle" were closed and in 2002 they did not produce any more. In general, in Russia, the production of polymer shoes in 2004 decreased by 10 times against 1990.

Against this background, among the largest enterprises of the industry, the Tomsk plant looked the most satisfactory. Its share in the total Russian production of polymer shoes in 2004 was 25.4% against 19.7% in 1990.

The collapse of the Union, the change of the socio-political system, the abandonment of the planned command-administrative system, the announcement of the transition to a market economy, the privatization and privatization of state property — all these tumultuous processes did not escape the TZRO.

Until 1992, the plant worked steadily. Under the conditions of an unstable financial system in the country, the plant's staff maintained the level of production and employment of staff longer than many other enterprises, but it was impossible to completely avoid the consequences of changes in the surrounding economic environment. By the end of 1994, JSC “TZRO” found itself in a difficult financial situation, as in the conditions of high inflation, the new debts inherited from the state-owned enterprise and the new debts of the society increased like an avalanche.

The board of directors found within the framework of the existing legislation the opportunity to avoid a complete stop of production due to the division of the plant into subsidiaries (DAO) with independent accounts free of debts (debts were left on the balance sheet of the parent company). The reorganization of the structure was carried out since the beginning of 1995. Relations with DAO were built on the basis of a lease agreement for fixed assets (also left on the balance sheet of OJSC TZRO), and temporarily - a contract on joint activities.

At the same time, at the initiative of the regional administration, financial recovery measures provided for by the bankruptcy legislation were applied to the plant. From May 1995 to July 1997, the external property management of JSC TZRO was appointed with the introduction of a moratorium on the satisfaction of creditors' claims. By its decision of July 25, 1997, the Tomsk Regional Arbitration Court considered the goal of external management to be achieved and discontinued the insolvency (bankruptcy) proceedings of OJSC TZRO.

This was one of the most dangerous moments of the factory history.

Further, over the following years, periodic restructuring of the company was carried out. The main direction of the new transformations was: a) the unification of the entire production within one legal entity; b) the concentration in the hands of the main financial flows.

The plant management pays attention to the issues of technical development of production, development of new types of products.

In 2004, production of boots began. With 220 with high thermal insulation qualities (“Arctic”), which in 2006 were sold for almost 5 million rubles;

in 2005, mastered the production of slippers for swimming from PVC.

In 2006, the launch of boots combined art. C 230 (shoes for power and security structures "Combat"), which sold 6.3 million rubles; manufactured rubber segments for the installation of speed limiters on dangerous sections of roads in the amount of 1 million rubles.

In 2009, the launch of a new model of men's two-tone PVC boots.

On the basis of two-tone men's boots in 2011, production of fishing boots with a high padded shaft was launched, they meet all modern requirements. In recent years, a whole range of special-purpose footwear has been mastered: heat-resistant boots, mining, mining, oil-oil-fat-resistant, acid-alkali-resistant, etc.

In 2010, TZRO was awarded a gold medal for quality at the Interregional Competition "Best Goods and Services of Siberia - Gemma - 2010", according to the results of the conclusion of an independent expert commission, the highest rating was received by products - rubber oversized laminated galoshes - for gardening and Asian execution.

The plant's products participate in exhibitions and fairs of regional, federal and international importance, where it presents shoes for anglers, hunters, law enforcement officers and rescue services, as well as new items of the range and time-tested shoes - Arktika, Combat, and Typhoon shock resistant rubber boots. The plant was repeatedly awarded with various diplomas and awards, including a diploma “For a great contribution to the formation of a national market for domestically produced goods” (signed by the Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation), and a diploma from the Russian Consumer Rights Protection Fund and the public expert council reviews "The best in Russia."

The Tomsk Rubber Footwear Factory currently provides about six hundred jobs. A hostel, work canteens, a health center are still operating at the factory. Actively involved in the life of the plant Council of Veterans. The plant has no wage arrears to the workers. Volumes of production and sales allow the plant to occupy the top lines in the rating for the production of rubber footwear and second place in Russia for the production of galoshes. Products are exported to neighboring countries - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan.

• Shanaev K. N. - First Director
• Dulepov I.I. - ch. mechanic
• Zamyatin B. R. - Art. constructor
•   Frolov P. F. ^[1]
•   Lavrova A.I. - brigadier ^[2]

Factory of rubber shoes // Tomsk from A to Z: A brief encyclopedia of the city. / Ed. Dr. East. Sciences N. M. Dmitrienko . - 1st ed. - Tomsk: Publishing house NTL, 2004. - p. 119. - 440 p. - 3 000 copies - ISBN 5-89503-211-7 .

• Official site of TZRO
• About TZRO on the website "All Tomsk"