The Rechitsa Regional State Archives presents a document on the post-war restoration of the Rechitsa Pilot Industrial Hydrolysis Plant

95 years ago, in February 1931, the Voroshilov Belarusian Tanning and Extraction Plant, one of the city’s oldest enterprises, was commissioned and began producing its first products. At the beginning of World War II, the most valuable equipment was evacuated, and after the city’s liberation from the Nazi occupiers, the plant was restored and resumed operation.

The Rechitsa State Archives holds Resolution No.176 of the Rechitsa City Executive Committee, dated August 25, 1944, «On the Progress of Restoration Work at the Voroshilov Plant» (F.342 Op.1 D.2 L.155). It notes that restoration work on the enterprise destroyed by the Nazis is proceeding extremely slowly, and therefore its director is ordered to accelerate the pace of repairs to the plant’s premises (main building, forge shop, etc.), as well as the dormitories and apartments of its employees.

In subsequent years, the enterprise changed its name several times and, in 1983, became the Rechitsa Experimental Industrial Hydrolysis Plant. It produced tanning extract, protein feed yeast, plant-carbohydrate feed for livestock, raw furfural, plaster lath, parquet flooring, utility boards, etc. In 2011, the plant was liquidated.

1. ZGAREch. F.342 Op.1 D.2 L.155

2. Belarusian Tanning and Extraction Plant named after Voroshilov (Rechitsa). 1954.