Globin Sugar Factory

A sugar factory in the town of Globino, Globinsky volost of the Kremenchug district of the Poltava province of the Russian Empire was built in 1911.

After the outbreak of World War I , a “prohibition” was introduced in the country, and part of the workers and peasants were mobilized into the army , which led to a reduction in the cultivation of sugar beets and complicated the situation of sugar industry enterprises.

1918 - 1991

In January 1918, Soviet power was established in Globino, in April 1918, German troops occupied it (which remained here until November 1918), and later, until December 1919, the village remained in the combat zone of the civil war . Later, during the restoration of the county’s economy, it was decided to use the surviving equipment of the sugar factories in the Poltava province that had stopped functioning to restore those enterprises that could be restored ^[1] .

In February 1920, with the help of workers from the Kiev machine-building plant, Globinsky Sugar Plant was put into operation and began work. In the following years, the plant allocated part of the production as charitable assistance (for example, in January - February 1924, in addition to helping the village of Malye Krynki, 7 pounds and 15 pounds of sugar were transferred to the sponsored hospital, and another 12 pounds and 8 pounds of sugar - to the sponsored army parts in Kiev) ^[1] .

During the industrialization of the 1930s, the plant was reconstructed and transformed into Globin Sugar Refinery . In the second quarter of 1941, the production facilities of the enterprise allowed to process 550 tons of beets per day and produce over 60 tons of sugar per day ^[1] .

After the start of World War II , two fighter battalions were created in the district center, while the second battalion of 75 people (the formation of which was not completed) was located at the sugar mill and provided security for the enterprises of the settlement. From September 13, 1941 to September 26, 1943, Globino was occupied by German troops . During the occupation, a concentration camp for Soviet prisoners of war was created on the territory of the sugar mill ^[2] .

In the summer of 1943, the Nazis began mass executions of local residents (among those shot by them were workers of the sugar factory - P.V. Poida, S.E. Efremov, G.E. Orzhobovskaya and others). In accordance with the “scorched earth” tactics, before retreating, they completely destroyed the sugar factory and other industrial enterprises of the district center and set fire to residential buildings. The total damage to the sugar factory during the occupation amounted to over 12 million rubles ^[1] .

After the liberation of the village, the restoration of the enterprise began, and on September 26, 1944, the sugar factory resumed operation. After the war, reorganization of the agricultural enterprises of the region was carried out, and as a result of the union of several collective farms, a large state farm was created, providing the plant with sugar beets ^[1] .

After the victory of the Cuban revolution in 1959, the plant mastered the processing of sugar cane and began the production of cane sugar ^[1] .

In 1975, the plant received an independent source of water supply - an artesian well was drilled 140 meters deep to the aquifer.

In general, in Soviet times, the sugar factory was one of the leading enterprises of the district center ^{[3] [1] [4] [5]} , on its balance were the factory House of Culture ^[1] , residential buildings and other social infrastructure facilities.

After 1991

After the independence of Ukraine, the state farm that provided the enterprise with sugar beets was disbanded, and the sugar factory was renamed Globinsky Sugar Plant . Subsequently, the state-owned enterprise was transformed into an open joint stock company .

In 2014, the plant became part of the Astarta-Kiev agro-industrial holding.

In the sugar season 2016/2017 The plant processed 553.3 thousand tons of sugar beets and produced 78.3 thousand tons of sugar. As of February 2017, the plant was one of the eight largest operating sugar factories in Ukraine ^[6] .

In 2017, the plant processed more than 380 thousand tons of beets, of which 57 thousand tons of sugar were produced ^[7] .

• Turner of the Globinsky sugar factory I.F. Krupko was a deputy of the Poltava Regional Council of Deputies ^[1]