To the 40th anniversary of the Great Victory By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow had a significant share in the country's food industry. Back in 1928, one of the largest flour mills in Europe was founded in the capital; in 1930, on the basis of artisanal food production of the Central Union, food processing plant No. 1; in 1933, meat processing plant No. 1, whose sausage factory is still the leading enterprise of the meat and dairy industry, and then it produced more than 21% of sausage products. products in the USSR. In 1939, for its success in the socialist competition, the plant, at that time the only one in Moscow, received the title of Stakhanovsky 1 . A number of other enterprises - Krasnopresnensky sugar refining plant, confectionery factories "Krasny Oktyabr", named after Babayev, etc. were reconstructed. In 1940, 120 food enterprises of the capital with their staff of 57 thousand people produced 2.7612 billion rubles worth of high-quality products, which accounted for 14.5% of the gross output of the food industry of the USSR .2The war imposed on us by Fascist Germany interrupted the creative work of the food workers and required the restructuring of all work in a military way .3 The raw material base of the food industry was seriously affected by a number of important industrial crops - sugar beets, sunflowers, potatoes, vegetables, etc.; the volume of procurements sharply decreased; there were not enough workers and their qualifications decreased; there was a shortage of not only raw materials, but also fuel, electricity, and transport. Food industry enterprises, producing everyday products, urgently joined in the production of ammunition and anti-tank protection equipment, launched the production of concentrates, vitamins and army crackers, glycerol, acetone and other fire mixtures .4"We can't have "peaceful" enterprises now. Every factory, every factory must work to meet military needs, "Pravda wrote at the time .5 The Bolshevik confecti ... Читать далее