The jubilee of the glass factory in Ulan-Ude reminded of the former might of the Soviet state

In 1994, the plant was shut down after nearly 60 years of successful operation.

The observance of strict measures of protection against the viral pandemic, unfortunately, did not allow the veterans of the glass factory in Ulan-Ude to celebrate the memorable dates of their native enterprise.

90 years ago, in a pine forest on the slopes of the Ulan-Burgas ridge, the first pegs were hammered into the industrial site of the future construction. This is how the birth of a glass plant began, along with a meat processing plant and a PVZ, which marked the beginning of the industrialization of Buryatia.

Construction proceeded with great difficulty: there was not enough materials, metal, and most importantly, workers and specialists. But through the efforts of thousands of people, the long-awaited moment of launching the plant came exactly five years later, on September 27, 1935. In the presence of the leadership of the BMASSR and the secretary of the regional committee M.N. Erbanov, Air Force (vertical glass stretching) machines No. 1 and No. 2 produced the first glass ribbons. It was a common labor victory: from the head of construction and the first director M.N. Nadtochiy to a simple worker, and after two years the design capacity of the plant was closed by 40%.

During the war years, not only sheet glass was produced, but also the products needed by the front. In 1944, for the regular overfulfillment of the plan, the team was awarded the Red Banner of the State Defense Committee, and 84 thousand rubles collected from personal funds. - transferred to the construction of a tank for the Belorussian Front.

The restoration of the destroyed economy, the construction of new cities and hydroelectric power plants in Siberia required an increase in glass production, and in December 1964, the reconstruction of the plant was successfully completed with the commissioning of a new VVS-2 system and an increase in productivity to 16 million square meters. m per year.

At that time, it was the largest enterprise in the industry in the region, supplying products domestically and for export, with highly qualified personnel. It is no coincidence that veterans remember another anniversary date associated with the plant. 30 years ago, in September 1990, the country's first sheet glass plant began operating in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. As part of a group of Soviet specialists, six representatives of the Ulan-Ude glass plant worked in the main areas, and the general management at the stage of starting production was entrusted to the chief engineer of our enterprise. All of them were awarded orders and medals of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

At the same time, work began in Ulan-Ude on dismantling the morally and physically obsolete VVS-1 system and building a high-performance line for the production of polished glass. The buildings of the new workshops were already standing, technological pipelines and on-site networks were installed, equipment began to arrive. But the collapse of a huge country violated, or rather, destroyed all reconstruction plans. Funding through the USSR State Planning Commission stopped, the sharply increased market price for fuel for furnaces (mazut) did not allow keeping the existing VVS-2 system in operation.

In 1994 the plant was shut down after nearly 60 years of successful operation.

Sad result, but time will prioritize. Now it is part of the history of our village, city, country. And those who hate and throw mud at our past with cave hatred have no right to evaluate it; who sang "Internationale" loudest of all, and then, for the sake of personal interests, throwing away their party card, stood under different banners. Nor are those who have long ago acquired comfortable housing in London, on the Cote d'Azur and Lake Como, but who imagine themselves to be preachers of patriotism, teach us from afar how to live righteously and passionately love Russia and Buryatia.

Children and grandchildren of veterans do not need such “teachers”, they have someone to be proud of. Let them remember and honor the merits of their fathers and grandfathers, the front-line exploits of the knight of the Order of Glory of three degrees P.K. Radikaltsev, after whom the street leading to the school is named and the awards that were received by their loved ones, who taught Vietnamese workers the complex skill of making glass.

Let us believe that the present generation will build and live in a large, strong and just country.

Source: https://ulan.mk.ru/