“Following a Simplified Scheme”: Project Development and Launch of Production at the Solikamsk Sulphite Pulp Mill

During the years of implementation first Soviet five-year plans, great attention was paid to pulp and paper industry. In forest industry structure, this component characterised by a weak level development. The bet made on creation medium large industries. Urals, where there were reserves resources rivers, they built several plants. largest centre in Urals eastern regions USSR formed. purpose article is study location, design, launch production Solikamsk Sulphite Pulp Mill. mid-1930s, it decided build an enterprise. project involved innovative technological solutions for plant postponed times, altered, construction entrusted from People’s Commissariat Forest Industry Internal Affairs USSR. 1940, Mill became independent enterprise, but its continued. March 1941, three months before outbreak Great Patriotic War, company began pulp. only possible within simplified scheme due absence or malfunction equipment. performance enterprise set insignificant volumes. With war, party-state bodies economic departments continued providing additional company’s development boosted evacuation industries, start sulphite waste liquor alcohol defense nearby. This allowed develop cooperative ties master new types products.