Parts were city and district. Now let's look at the two museums of Vyshny Volochok. This is a local history museum that introduces the past of the city, its unique canals and iconic people, and a real Glass Fairy Tale or Colored Dream - a glass museum of the former Krasny May factory, several times even producing ruby glass for the stars of the Kremlin towers by government order.
1. Glass production near Vyshny Volochok appeared in the second half of the 19th century, when a local merchant bought a chemical plant and founded the production of tableware, lampshades and kerosene lamps on its basis
2. A little later, the production of colored glass appears, when an experienced glassmaker came to the plant, knowing the secret of technology
3. The plant's products received high awards at pre-revolutionary exhibitions
8. And the animals, ahah, look what!
11. After the revolution, the plant was nationalized, renamed "Red May", expanded and modernized production. Lamp glass, window glass, dishes, lamps for the subway - all this was done here. High-quality color products, which, as in tsarist times, occupied high places at international exhibitions, were nicknamed the "Russian miracle"
12. In the 1940s and 1970s, the plant carried out perhaps the most important task in its history - a government order for the production of ruby glass for the Kremlin stars. Here are his pieces
Having visited this museum, I was already dreaming about how I would get into production and make a report, but no luck. In 2001, the Krasny May glass factory was closed. Let's face it, a huge era has gone and a whole page has been torn out of the book on the history of our country, but the memory remains. Already for the sake of this museum, in order to visit here again, I would return to Vyshny in summer on a Mosturflot cruise or in winter as part of bus tours, the so-called "winter cruises" of this company.
It would seem that for almost 17 years there has been no plant, but the sediment from this fact still remained inside.
13. And this is the Local Lore Museum of Vyshny Volochok. To be honest, I don’t really like these, but I didn’t regret that I visited Vyshnevolotsky. It is already over 80 years old, but the expositions do not smell like a layer of museum dust and you don’t have to bring a pillow to sleep with you out of boredom. Not so long ago, everything was also reconstructed here.
Local guides are true professionals in their field, enthusiasts who are ready to talk for hours about every detail, about each exhibit, as about a person and an old friend who is dear to them personally. No memorized phrases from guidebooks, no "tell, but quickly finish." So I highly recommend the museum to everyone!
14. In the Petrovsky Hall, you can not only learn about the activities of the tsar, who made the Vyshnevolotsk waterway truly navigable (thus connecting the Baltic and the Caspian Sea and opening up many new opportunities for the development of Russia with the help of Vyshny Volochyok), but also see cannons raised from the bottom of the canals , kernels, hooks - witnesses of that era
17. The Dutch, who built canals for Peter in Vyshny Volochek, screwed up. They are accustomed to working with the sea and did not take into account the peculiarities of our area. In summer, lakes and rivers became shallow, canals became dehydrated, traffic along the canals stopped, and famine set in in the cities.
The Novgorod merchant M.I. Serdyukov undertook to correct the situation and improve the waterway. He, a self-taught hydraulic engineer, devoted a third of a century to the water system of Vyshny Volochok. Locks, beishlots, the Tsnin Canal, a reservoir - all these are the results of his labors.
18. Model of the Tsnin lock built by Serdyukov
19. Plan of hydraulic structures in Vyshny Volochek presented by Serdyukov to Emperor Peter
20. And a modern map.
After visiting the museum, in the summer I wanted to visit all the structures, including those almost destroyed by time and man, see everything personally and get to know the waterway, which was once very important for Russia.
21. Model of Vyshny Volochok from the time of Peter. Now, if museums have layouts, it's very cool)
22. Look what a handsome man!
Frigate "Pallas". Its first captain was Nakhimov. Subsequently, the frigate visited many voyages, including Japan. With the beginning of the Crimean War, due to fear of being captured by the British, it was flooded.
Vyshnevolotsk and Tver nobles served on it in different years
23. The canals of Vyshny Volochyok were the most important cargo highways. Here is a layout of a cargo barge, made according to a 19th century drawing. How do you like the fact that the barge lifted up to 130 tons of cargo? I didn't believe it at first
In Vyshny, in connection with the transition from lifting to rafting, the ships were re-equipped. The rudders and masts were removed, the platforms were equipped, on which stood people who controlled 4 huge oars - potes. A pilot and 10 workers were put on each barge.
24. Remember in the first part there was a chapel on the site of the Kazan Cathedral of the 18th century, where the decree of Catherine, who granted Vyshny Volochek the status of a city, was read out? This is how this cathedral was blown up in the 1930s
(This is my first post, so please don't judge too harshly.)
This summer, in July, I was on vacation with my family in the village. Krasnomaisky, Vyshnevolotsky district, Tver region. This is not the first time I have been there, and I know about a glass factory that has not been working for a long time. I knew from my wife that there was a museum of historical exhibits of the plant and modern works of glass art at the plant. I was sure that the museum no longer exists, because. the plant has been bankrupt for many years, on its territory there is a hasty sawing of the remnants of equipment for scrap metal. And now, from one friend I heard that someone visited the museum quite recently. I decided to try my luck too, and went to the factory entrance to find out information about opening hours.
Arriving there, I learned that the museum can be accessed from 9 am to 2 pm on any day except Saturday and Sunday. Since it was already late, he postponed the trip to another day.
In the morning I stood like a bayonet at 9 am at the checkpoint. The woman who runs the museum was not there yet, so I looked around the hall. There were placed some slot machines, a whole warehouse, some scooters, ATVs, and a bunch of other things. My attention was drawn to the front door handle. Apparently the front door of thick glass has been preserved in its original form.
Soon the head of the museum came. In my opinion, her name is Svetlana (I don’t know her patronymic). A benevolent woman of about thirty-five (this is in my opinion). She immediately took me through the territory of the factory to the museum building. By the way, the path to the museum was all overgrown with grass, which Svetlana later complained to me about.
Opening the lock on the door, we climbed to the second floor of a separate building. Showcases and shelves full of exhibits appeared before my eyes. I have not seen such a collection of glass objects for a long time!!! Having secured permission, I began to photograph, passing further into the hall.
Previously, this plant was very famous, I had heard from my wife that the Kremlin stars were made at this plant, I found confirmation of this information in the records of the museum. Even on one pedestal there are exactly the same glasses as exhibits, here they are two triangles below:
I found out that the plant has existed since 1859. It was founded by the merchant of the II guild Andrey Vasilyevich Bolotin. A bit of history:
The glass factory "RED MAY" is located on the bank of the river Shlina. One of the largest in the country, it was founded in 1859 as a chemical factory by the Moscow titular adviser Samarin. But Samarin did not have enough funds for the further development of production and the plant was bought by the Vyshnevolotsk merchant of the 2nd guild Andrey Vasilyevich Bolotin. In 1873, the owners of the plant - the merchants of Bolotin - built the first oven, which produced glassware: dining room, confectionery, plafonds. In the same year, an experienced glassmaker came to the plant - the owner of the secret of preparing the mixture for melting colored glass - Vasily Alekseevich Vekshin. And for the first time in Russia at the Bolotinsky plant they began to cook colored glass with a variety of colors. Already in 1882 and 1886, the new products of the plant, "absolutely remarkable in their diversity and unexpected elegance" (as the well-known professor of the time - "glass scientist" A.K. Krupsky estimated), were awarded two gold and two silver medals of the All-Russian -industrial exhibitions in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod for a rich color scheme and for the thoroughness of processing. In 1920, the plant was nationalized and it became the property of the state. On May 1, 1923, a meeting of workers and employees of the plant was held, at which a decision was made to rename the plant to the plant "RED MAY". Since that time, the plant began to expand, they began to build new glass melting furnaces. During the Patriotic War (1942-1945), the plant produced technical glass in large quantities for the needs of the Navy and aviation, semaphore and traffic light lenses, lamp glass, and storage vessels were manufactured. In the 1940s, a very important period in the history of the plant, when the first government order for the production of ruby glass for the Kremlin stars was honorably completed. In 1946, the task was completed successfully. In the 1950s and 1960s, glass products were cut with gold, enamel, chandelier, and silicate paints at the plant. Products from two-three-layer glass were also produced. But the Krasnomay people were especially famous for their sulfide glass, which is not in vain called the “Russian miracle” for its inexhaustible richness of color. And it is also called so for its exceptional ability to change color depending on the temperature and duration of processing, which gives the mass product a unique originality. This material was mastered by the plant in 1959, "RED MAY" was, in fact, the only enterprise not only in our country, but throughout the world, where sulphide glass was fixed as an indispensable glass of the factory assortment.
It turns out these can be kerosene lamps:
In general, I was struck by the variety of shapes and colors, and all this glass is in the skillful hands of craftsmen. Here are some more interesting exhibits:
Funny shoe:
Abstract vase:
Olympic bear on the decanter)))
Interesting abstract idea of the artist:
Green glass bouquet:
Jug:
Unusual pumpkins)))
What a fertile material - glass in the hands of a master. Flowers are very similar to real, very elegant petals:
This exhibit interested me, because. I was born in 1981
Petition to the Tver Governor for the construction of a plant:
Unfortunately, the photographs were without signatures ... like all the exhibits in the museum.
Here are the old documents and photographs in this form (glued to the stand, and the stand is removed behind the exhibits to the wall):
Model of the furnace for melting sand into glass:
In fact, there are a lot of photos, and whoever is interested can go to my page Yandex photos.
Having taken plenty of pictures, I decided not to detain Svetlana any longer. Together we went to the entrance, where she said that she was in such a hurry that she forgot to take the entrance fee. At first I was wary, but when I was told the amount of 30 rubles, I relaxed, because taking a bunch of interesting photos is definitely more expensive. This concludes my trip to the museum. I lament that I forgot to photograph the very inscription on the building "Museum of the Plant".
A visit to the museum left a double impression. On the one hand - admiration for the work, on the other - the depressing state of the plant itself, and the futility of this museum. Already on arrival home, I found out that the plant was put up for sale for 152 million rubles (or $ 5.72 million). As follows from the text accompanying the announcement: buildings and equipment are of no value and interest, and are subject to demolition. Infrastructure is of interest: ease of access, own railway line, power of electricity and gas. That is, it is interesting to those who decide to build a plant on this territory from scratch.
And here is what we managed to find out about the prospects of the museum: The new St. Petersburg owners of the plant tried to take the collection to St. Petersburg. And apparently they wanted to "push" the exhibits from the auction, but so far the indignant people and the local press prevented. Details in
One of the places that, having arrived in Vyshny Volochek, you must definitely visit is the glass museum of the Krasny May factory. The same plant, whose products were known far beyond the borders of our country and where ruby stars were made, which to this day adorn the five towers of the Moscow Kremlin.
I already wrote about the factory museum about two years ago in the article “Red May: from ruby to ruins”. The museum was then located in a dilapidated, unheated building with a leaking roof on the territory of the plant, the buildings of which by that time had been in ruins for more than ten years. A little more - and it seemed that a unique collection would disappear forever after glass furnaces. Fortunately, this did not happen. In August of this year, the renovated museum was opened at the address: M. Magomayev Street (former Vagzhanova), 17.
The building where it is located, as well as the museum itself, also has a difficult history. It began to be built back in the 80s of the last century for a new automatic telephone exchange (automatic telephone exchange), but then abandoned - in an era of change, there was no time for the development of telecommunications. For more than 20 years, the concrete box has been empty, being used as, I'm sorry, a latrine for sellers of the mini-market located nearby. This continued until the site on which the long-term construction stood was purchased. The building was brought to mind, the Pyaterochka supermarket was located on the first floor, and the glass museum on the second. The museum is not a state one, it is a private collection of the owner of the building, Vladimir Koloshva.
The building where the museum is located
Decorative set "Big holiday"
"Red May". When you hear these two words, the first thing that comes to mind is the five ruby stars on the Spasskaya, Nikolskaya, Borovitskaya, Troitskaya and Vodovzvodnaya towers of the main Kremlin of Russia. On one of the museum stands you can see a fragment of the same four-layer glass from which the tops of the Kremlin towers are made. It's a pity - you can not pick it up to determine its mass. Stars with a span of rays from 3 to 3.75 meters weigh about a ton each, which is why it is interesting how heavy a triangular piece of about 20-25 square centimeters will be.
On the right - fragments of four-layer glass for the Kremlin stars
In total, more than four thousand exhibits are presented in the hall - much more than it was in the old building. The first thing that greets visitors is something without which there would be no stars, or even a simple faceted glass - a glass furnace. More precisely, its layout and working tools of the glass blower. The museum guide can tell you in detail about the principle of operation of the furnace, about the temperature at which the glass mass is melted. Having familiarized ourselves with this, we will proceed directly to viewing the exposition. 
Vases for napkins
In any museum, exhibits are arranged, as a rule, in the chronological order of their appearance. And here, in the first three shelves, there is a collection of products made at the plant back in the 19th century, when it was not yet Red May, but the Klyuchinsky plant of the merchant and industrialist Bolotin. Crystal glassware, church utensils, kerosene lamps. “It was these lamps, crowned with thin light lampshades, that were awarded a gold medal at the All-Russian Art and Industrial Exhibition in Moscow in 1882,” wrote the Krasnomaisky Glazier newspaper in 1988. These were the first sprouts of the future glory of local glassmakers. Another unique item of that time that is sure to attract attention is a jug with six compartments inside, separated by partitions. Moreover, these departments are completely isolated from each other and do not communicate with each other. The name of the master who made this decanter is known - Arefiev. After him, no one else was able to create something like this. 
Miracle decanter by master Arefiev
“Honored Artist of the RSFSR V.Ya. Shevchenko combined outstanding talent, broad professional erudition and a desire for experiment and discovery. He knew how to give sulfide glass a kind of light-plastic interpretation, he discovered in the material the ability to powerful, even spontaneous expressiveness. . This is an information note about Viktor Shevchenko (1935 - 2011) - a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, who worked as a senior artist at the Krasny May factory since 1975, and before that - at the Dyatkovo Crystal Factory. Decorative panels, lamps and other works by Shevchenko can be found in the Moscow Art Theater and the Central House of Artists. Also, his products were awarded the first prize at the Quadrienal (an exhibition held once every four years - ed.) Applied art of the socialist countries in Erfurt (GDR) in 1974 and 1978. Indeed, is it really possible to indifferently pass by such compositions of hard (handmade, piece) work as "Emerald expanse", "Tumbleweeds", "Trees to grow", or "The Tale of Igor's Campaign"? A chipped piece of one of the "helmets" of the "Word" is the result of careless handling, in this form the work was also in the old museum.
Collection of works by Viktor Shevchenko
"Tumbleweed"
On the left - "Trees to grow" and "Emerald expanse"
"The Tale of Igor's Campaign"
“Konoplev's works made of colored and sulfide glass are distinguished by intricate stucco decoration - a free cascade of sparkling streams, as if pliable glass that has not yet cooled down. Decorative vases "Sea Surf", "Waterfall", "Birch Trees", "Hot Snow" are marked by that special integrity of the decorative image characteristic of free-cut glass, when material, shape and color are merged into an indissoluble unity by the skillful hand of the artist". Sergei Konoplev is a hereditary glassmaker, his grandfather, about whom there were legends, worked for the Bolotins. Konoplev himself started at the factory as a blower, later, after graduating from the Moscow Higher School of Industrial Art (now the Moscow State Art and Industrial Academy named after S. G. Stroganov), he became an artist. Other works by the author with romantic titles include Golden Autumn, Escapes, Russian Patterns.
Collection of Sergey Konoplev
"Tidal bore"
"Twilight"
"Russian patterns"
"Gold autumn"
Sulfide (sulfide-zinc) glass, obtained by adding iron oxide and zinc sulfide to the glass mass, with which Shevchenko, Konoplev and other Vyshnevolotsk artists worked, along with crystal and ruby, was one of the plant's visiting cards. Not just a visiting card, Krasny May became perhaps the only enterprise in the world where sulfide glass was used as an indispensable attribute of the factory assortment. For a rich color scheme, depending on the processing conditions, it was called a Russian miracle, which is confirmed by many years of practice. However, all these products are unique, exhibition specimens. No less interesting are the products that were mass-produced - decanters, tableware, ceiling lamps, electric souvenirs stylized as Bolotino's "kerosene stoves". 
Also in the museum's collection are gift items from "Red May". More precisely, their reduced copies. For example, a copy of the crystal vase presented to the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin. What is the name of the vase, guess, I think, is not so difficult. That's right, Stars. Or the decorative composition "Mir" (author - Lyudmila Kuchinskaya), made for the next congress of the CPSU. And here is a floor lamp resembling a candlestick made of openwork metal framed with crystal. Exactly the same, as the guide assures, only of a larger size, was presented to the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev on his 70th birthday.
Right - "Stars"
Tver region Vyshny Volochek Red May, Glass Factory - where the Kremlin stars were made.
The coming year could be marked by two dates - albeit not jubilee, but significant in their own way: the 157th anniversary of the founding of a chemical plant near Vyshny Volochok and the 87th anniversary of the day this plant received its last name, under which it all know - "Red May". They knew. Today, instead of a unique enterprise, once famous for its crystal, there are only ruins. However, there is also a round date - exactly 70 years ago, stars made of glass made at Krasny May shone over the Moscow Kremlin. Once the plant was famous throughout the USSR. Still would! “Kremlin stars made by the hands of Krasnomai masters shine over the whole country,” I read a 1988 guide. Of course, not entirely: the ruby tops of the spiers of the towers are a complex engineering structure, which was created by dozens of enterprises and research institutes. But the laminated glass made at Krasny May is far from the last part of this structure. Therefore, the words of almost thirty years ago, despite the pathos, are close to the truth. What's left of that pride? Destroyed workshops, which are unlikely to be rebuilt when. Yes, a museum that survives on one word of honor. A few kilometers from Vyshny Volochok towards St. Petersburg is the village of Krasnomaisky. True, the locals do not call it that, this toponym exists only in official documents. “I will go to Red May”, “I live on Red May”, - saying this, people mean exactly the village, not the factory. In the middle of the 19th century, there was the village of Klyuchino, where in 1859 the future flagship of the glass industry arose. First, as a chemical Its first owner, the titular adviser Samarin, did not have enough funds for the further development of production, and three years later the plant was bought out by the merchant of the second guild Andrei Bolotin, who soon built a glass factory in its place. Later, he founded another plant on the territory of the current Vyshnevolotsk district - Borisovsky (now - OJSC Medsteklo Borisovskoye). The first glass-making furnace at the Klyuchinsky plant was launched by the merchant and founder of the Bolotin dynasty of glassmakers in 1873. Also, at the expense of the owners of the plant, a working settlement, quite comfortable by the standards of that time, was built.
By the beginning of the 20th century, the Klyuchinsky plant produced glass pharmaceutics, tableware and confectionery utensils, kerosene lamps, ceiling lamps, fulfilling orders from almost all parts of the empire. Soon the October Revolution broke out, the plant was nationalized and in 1929 was named "Red May". A settlement for 5 thousand inhabitants grew up around the enterprise with a hospital, a school, a music school, a vocational school that trained, in addition to glass-working specialists, tractor drivers and car mechanics. A lot was written about "Red May" in the regional and central press. Let's remember what the newspapers and magazines were talking about then and compare all this with the current remnants of the former greatness. Moreover, the inseparability of two symbols is natural in our minds - the heart of the Motherland and the five-pointed star ”(“ Pravda ”, 1985). It just so happened that we say "Red May", and we mean five ruby finials. And vice versa. Therefore, I want to start my story from this page. Moreover, the Vyshnevolotsk stars, which now adorn the Spasskaya, Nikolskaya, Borovitskaya, Troitskaya and Vodovzvodnaya towers of the Kremlin, were not the first. For the first time, five-pointed stars replaced the symbol of autocratic Russia - double-headed eagles - in the fall of 1935. They were made of high-alloy stainless steel and red copper, with a gilded hammer and sickle in the center of each star. However, the first stars did not decorate the Kremlin towers for long. Firstly, they quickly faded under the influence of atmospheric precipitation, and secondly, in the overall composition of the Kremlin they looked rather ridiculous and disrupted the architectural ensemble. Therefore, it was decided to install ruby luminous stars.
New finials appeared on November 2, 1937. Each of them could rotate like a weather vane and had a frame in the form of a multifaceted pyramid. The order for the production of ruby glass was received by the Avtosteklo plant in the city of Konstantinovka in the Donbass. It had to pass red rays of a certain wavelength, be mechanically strong, resistant to sudden changes in temperature, not discolor and not be destroyed by solar radiation. The glazing of the stars was double: the inner layer consisted of milky (opaque, deaf white) glass 2 mm thick, due to which the light from the lamp was scattered evenly over the entire surface, and the outer layer was made of ruby 6-7 mm. The weight of each star was about a ton, the surface area was from 8 to 9 square meters.
During the Great Patriotic War, the stars were extinguished and sheathed. When they were reopened after the Victory, numerous cracks and traces of shell fragments were found on the ruby surface. Restoration was needed. This time, the Vyshnevolotsk factory "Red May" was entrusted with making glass. The local craftsmen made it four layers: transparent crystal at the bottom, then frosted glass, again crystal and, finally, ruby. This is necessary so that the star, both during the day in sunlight and at night, illuminated from the inside, is the same color. “The ruby stars made at the Konstantinovsky plant did not fulfill the task set by the designers. The double layer of glass - milky and ruby - made it impossible to preserve the bright color of the stars. Dust accumulated between the layers. And by that time, laminated glass was being produced, in my opinion, only at Krasny May (Kalininskaya Pravda, 1987). “I think that readers will be interested to know how prototypes of star glass were made. It took 32 tons of high-quality Lyubertsy sand, 3 tons of zinc muffle white, 1.5 tons of boric acid, 16 tons of soda ash, 3 tons of potash, 1.5 tons of potassium nitrate to make a multilayer ruby for only one star ”(“ Yunost ”, 1981). New stars shone in 1946. And they still shine, despite the calls of some public figures to replace them with eagles again. The next reconstruction of the ruby "luminaries" was in 1974, and again Krasnomai masters took part in it. Despite the existing experience, the brewing technology had to be created, as they say, from scratch: archival documents that could be used to restore the "recipe" have not been preserved.
I must say that in 2010, a lot was written about the 75th anniversary of the first Kremlin stars in the central media, but the contribution of Red May was never mentioned anywhere. Not in 1996, when the plant was still, at the very least, working, despite the fact that wages there were already being paid out in vases and wine glasses. Not in 2006 - at least in pursuit of the departed train ...
“Yesterday, a batch of colorless and milky glass parts for lighting fixtures of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory was sent from the Vyshnevolotsk Krasny May plant. It was not easy for glassmakers to repeat the bizarre forms of ancient chandeliers and sconces that have been illuminating the halls of this musical educational institution for more than a hundred years” (Kalininskaya Pravda, 1983). “Several years ago, at the request of Bulgarian friends, the masters of the Vyshnevolotsk Krasny May glass factory made ruby glass for the friendship memorial built on the famous Shipka. And here is a new order from Bulgaria - to make four-layer glass for a star that will crown the Party House in Sofia. The teams of craftsmen N. Ermakov, A. Kuznetsov, N. Nasonov and A. Bobovnikov were entrusted with fulfilling the export order” (“Pravda”, 1986). “A beautiful garden village with paved roads, well-maintained cottages, a club, a school and other public buildings, with a garden plant in the center, from where products of almost two thousand items diverge around the world” (“Kalininskaya Pravda”, 1959) . “Yesterday, a joyful message came from Moscow to GPTU-24 of the Vyshnevolotsk Krasny May plant. By the decree of the Main Exhibition Committee of VDNKh of the USSR for the development and participation in the manufacture of the Jubilee and Cup vases presented at the All-Union Review of Artistic Works of Vocational Schools, masters of industrial training T. Orlova and T. Shamrina were awarded bronze medals. And the students Irina Yarosh and Eduard Vedernikov were awarded the medal "Young Participant of the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements" ("Kalininskaya Pravda", 1983). For comparison. The village-garden is an ordinary outlying village, of which there are thousands. It seems not abandoned, but there is also no hint of grooming. Cottage houses are, apparently, wooden two-story barracks still with cesspools. Plant-garden now - pipes towering over the ruins of workshops, a rusty honor board, like a ghost from the past. On the territory itself there is some kind of small business: auto repair, warehouses. In the former factory premises, even the old furniture was gone, only heaps of construction debris. The railway line, with the exception of a few sections, has been almost completely dismantled. GPTU also keeps pace with the times. Back in the middle of the 2000s, the specialty of a tractor driver-machinist, once the most popular among teenagers, was closed there. Yes, and in life is not the most unpromising. Is there really no need for tractor drivers anymore? Of course, there are no blowers and grinders of glass products either. “A seemingly simple product is a glass, but its manufacture requires great skill. Glass makers of the Vyshnevolotsk plant "Krasny May" master this skill to perfection. Two types of glasses produced here in millions of "circulations" were awarded the State Quality Mark. A vase for berries, a rosette for jam, and an ashtray made of zinc sulphide glass were awarded the same high marks” (“Soviet Russia”, 1975). In the workshops of the plant, by the way, the third largest after those in Gus-Khrustalny and Dyatkovo, not only crystal products and ruby stars were produced.
Remembering our childhood .. We did not live richly, and I had only trousers, a pair of shirts - one canvas for every day, the other flannel - a day off, and a fur coat with faux fur. The times were like that .. and when I entered school, I decided to earn extra money, then it was not easy to find a job for a schoolboy. And only with the help of my mother, who was then working at the Kalinin cotton mill as a printer, I was employed there for the summer holidays as a packer of rags. The work was not difficult, it was necessary to sort the out-of-spec fabric into bales, which was subsequently sent to various enterprises, workers, to wipe their hands. I still remember this smell of fabric at the plant, which many years later I did not even hope to inhale again. And one of these days I was destined to visit the Vyshnevolotsk cotton mill, where terry products are now produced. Oh yes, it was the same smell from the past, from the past childhood. Our Kalininsky KhBK has not been working for a long time, such a huge and old monster, built under the tsar, could not withstand market competition. In the last years of his work, he consumed more than electricity alone than he made a profit. Well, I would like to wish good luck and prosperity to the Vyshnevolotsk cotton mill, which by the way now ranks second in Russia in terms of production of terry products!
On July 13, Acting Governor of the Tver Region Igor Rudenya visited Vyshny Volochek on a working trip. A special place in the program is assigned to the industry of the territory.
The head of the region visited the enterprise, which ranks second in Russia in terms of production of terry products - the Vyshnevolotsk cotton mill.
The company is celebrating its 160th anniversary next year. They have maintained a closed production cycle, produce 1,100 tons of products per year, increase labor productivity by several times and make plans to increase capacity: the potential of the plant is to produce up to 1,700 tons of products per year. From 2007 to 2016, about 2.5 billion rubles were invested in production. The enterprise sends about 50 million rubles of taxes to the consolidated budget of the region, provides more than 230 jobs for residents of the region.
The head of the region talked with the employees of the plant, among them representatives of labor dynasties. Warping equipment operator Svetlana Yefimova told the story of her family – just like her parents, she devoted many years to working at the enterprise.
As Igor Rudenya noted, the Vyshnevolotsk plant is a vivid example of how large light industry enterprises successfully operate in market conditions.
The Tver region has been one of the centers of the cotton industry in Russia since the middle of the 19th century. Unfortunately, after the 90s of the last century, this industry has ceased to be the leading one in the economy of our region, - the head of the region emphasized. - Now we have started the development of the Strategy for the economic development of the region. It will pay special attention to supporting traditional industries.
Also on this day, as part of a working trip to the city of Vyshny Volochek, Tver Region, Acting Governor Igor Rudenya visited the Vyshnevolotsk nursing home for the elderly and disabled.
The institution opened in 1974. At the moment, 489 people live here, in total the nursing home is designed for 501 places. Among the residents there are invalids, participants of the Great Patriotic War, home front workers, prisoners of labor camps, labor veterans. In order to personally verify the quality of services provided to the elderly, Igor Rudenya examined the medical unit of the institution, where qualified doctors work, physiotherapy, physiotherapy, dentistry, and procedural rooms are open.
Then, the Acting Governor of the Tver Region, Igor Rudenya, met with Yulia Kulikova, Director of Shop No. 11 LLC in Vyshny Volochek
At the end of May, the head of the shopping facility sent a video message to the head of the region as part of the Tver Forum of Entrepreneurs, which was held for the first time in the region, the regional Government reported.
Yulia Kulikova asked for assistance in resolving the issue of buying out leased premises within the framework of the allowance for small and medium-sized businesses. Igor Rudenya instructed the head of the Ministry of Property and Land Relations of the region, Yevgeny Zelensky, and the Minister of the Tver Region for Control Functions, Viktor Shaforost, to go to the site, understand the situation and take the necessary measures. The audit showed that the tenant was illegally deprived of the right to privatize the premises at a market price. The regional authorities got involved in resolving the issue, and as a result, the entrepreneur's rights were restored.
For more than 1.5 years we have been suing the city administration, we no longer believed in success. Thanks to Igor Mikhailovich - such a prompt response. Thanks to the head of the region, the situation was quickly resolved, - shared Yulia Kulikova, who noted the openness of the head of the region to the problems of entrepreneurship.
For Yulia Kulikova, the way out of this situation has become a symbolic birthday present. The entrepreneur is celebrating his birthday today. The acting Governor congratulated the birthday girl.
This is normal work when the government hears the business, - Igor Rudenya noted.
In the development of small and medium-sized businesses, the regional authorities see the main vector of economic growth in the region. To strengthen it, high-quality state administration and the creation of favorable conditions are necessary - such tasks were set by Igor Rudenya at the forum of entrepreneurs. An important factor in this work is the absence of administrative barriers.
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On July 13, the Acting Governor of the Tver Region, Igor Rudenya, visited one of the region's woodworking enterprises, the Vyshnevolotsk timber industry enterprise, where in 2001 the production of glued products was launched.
The enterprise is an example of how the task of the President of Russia on deep processing of timber is being implemented in the region. Such an installation was made by the head of the region during a meeting with timber merchants.
The region can not only procure wood, but also bring to the market a finished product with the maximum added value, - Igor Rudenya noted during his visit to the timber industry. - These are taxes, jobs, development of our enterprises.
The Vyshnevolotsk timber industry enterprise fulfills orders for the manufacture of wooden houses. According to the head of the region, the region produces a product that can compete with well-known foreign brands. The regional government will make every effort to promote Tver enterprises on the market, - Igor Rudenya emphasized.
The head of the region inspected the boiler house of the enterprise, which works on woodworking waste. As Igor Rudenya pointed out, the production confirms the effective role of small-scale energy, which is focused on the use of pellets, sawdust, peat. Along with active gasification, which should receive a new impetus in the region, the Government of the region is aimed at promoting the use of alternative fuels.
On the same day, "RIM" also visited the obstetric department of the Vyshnevolotsk Central District Hospital.
In the building, the issue of repairing the roof is urgent, the regional government reported.
The Vyshnevolotsk Central District Hospital is an inter-district center providing obstetric services to both the local population and residents of nearby territories - the Vyshnevolotsk, Bologovsky, Firovsky districts and ZATO Ozerny. Over the past year, more than 250 births were taken here, and this figure is growing every year. The department is designed for 28 round-the-clock beds and 4 more day stays.
The obstetric service is located in a separate two-story building. In 2013, under the healthcare modernization program, repair work was carried out here. However, the allocated funds were only enough for a cosmetic finish. Subsequently, the building had serious problems with the roof. By decision of the hospital management, the second floor was closed, and all beds were placed on the first floor.
The issue of overhaul of the roof and floors is on the agenda of the management of the institution and the Government of the region. As of today, all design and estimate documentation is ready. An amount of 7.7 million rubles has been allocated from the regional budget. Now there is a stage of competitive procedures. Repairs must be completed by November 1st. This term was designated by Igor Rudenya.
It is necessary to take the work as seriously as possible, to ensure a high level of control over the quality of their implementation, - said the head of the region. - The maternity ward should be modern and civilized.
In addition, Igor Rudenya set the task of putting the road leading to the maternity hospital in order and working out the issue of purchasing the necessary equipment.
And of course the traditional meeting with the people ..
Residents asked questions on improving the quality of healthcare, education, supporting agriculture and others
Improving the quality of healthcare, creating safe conditions for the education of children, supporting farmers, developing the potential of young people - these questions were asked by residents of Vyshny Volochek during the official visit of Acting Governor Igor Rudenya to the district center.
During the conversation, the topic of creating opportunities in Vyshny Volochyok for local agricultural producers to sell their products without intermediaries was raised. As the head of the region indicated, an instruction will be given to organize an appropriate trading platform in the city.
Igor Rudenya drew attention to the areas that hinder the development of the region as a whole and this territory in particular: the quality of roads, the state of housing and communal services.
There are many problematic issues in Vyshny Volochek. All levels of government, as well as the residents themselves, should take part in the development of the city, - the head of the region emphasized.
Sergey Yakovlev, a representative of one of the city's management companies, thanked the head of the region for the municipal equipment that Vyshny Volochek receives under an agreement with the Moscow Government.
Among the decisions made were the provision of synchronization of gasification in the village of Derevkovo, the study of the possibility of financing the repair of a 13 km long road in the rural settlement of Luzhnikovskoye for the next year. Also in the field of view of the regional authorities is the object of the program for the resettlement of citizens from emergency housing stock: those living in the 34th house on Ryleeva Street are concerned about the quality of new housing.
A number of questions raised by residents related to the sphere of youth policy. So, the support of the head of the region was received by the KVN movement of the region. The head of the region also announced an agreement with Rosmolodezh to create a discussion platform for rural youth in the region. A separate topic is the restoration of sports facilities in Vyshny Volochek, the development of institutions in this area.
Residents of the city expressed their hope that the head of the region would continue to support the territory in the same way that the President of Russia supported Igor Rudenya. “The head of state supports the entire Tver region,” the Acting Governor replied.
This is such a big and eventful trip .. and there are sometimes several times a week ..
Part 2. Is it too late for us to stop?
Let's continue our walk through the area, which some fifteen years ago was the famous Red May glass factory. Famous, first of all, for the fact that four-layer glass was made in his workshops for the stars of the Moscow Kremlin, which today adorn five of its towers. Today we will look at the Museum of Artistic Glass. 
Getting from the regional center to the village of Krasnomaisky is easy: a regular bus goes there every 20 minutes. The third stop after turning off the M10 highway - and you are at the gate of the plant. The museum is open daily from 10:00 to 14:00 except weekends and public holidays. More precisely, it can be opened. To get there, you must first call by phone and book a tour. And at the agreed time, go to the entrance, where the caretaker will meet you and take you to the museum. 
All that's left of the entrance
In the museum
“And the kerosene lamps, painted with gold and paints, were also striking in their beauty. It was these lamps, crowned with thin light lampshades, that were awarded the gold medal at the All-Russian Art and Industrial Exhibition in Moscow in 1882.(“Krasnomaisky glazier”, 1988). By 1990, when the 20th anniversary of the museum of the Krasny May plant was celebrated, it stored more than three hundred products of pre-revolutionary (Bolotinsky) craftsmen and about 4 thousand samples of the Soviet period already - both unique exhibits from colored, applied and sulfide-zinc glass, as well as and mass production. Many of these exhibits were brought by the inhabitants of the village. That is, like most museum expositions, this one was also created literally bit by bit. 
The current state of the museum is not much better than the enterprises. On the ground floor of the building, where there was once a dining room, the same devastation as in the workshops. Only upstairs, where the museum itself, order. Except, of course, the leaking roof and the lack of heating. Formally, the museum belongs to the owners of the former factory - it is clear that such a land cannot be a no-man's land. Who they are and what their names are, none of those with whom I managed to talk knows. In fact, it is more or less followed by entrepreneurs located on the territory of the "Red May". The region or the Vyshnevolotsky district can and would like to take the glass museum on their balance sheet, but they cannot: the law does not allow taking and taking away (or, more precisely, saving). Just as they cannot provide financial assistance: misappropriation of budgetary funds, a criminal article. Even if our history is at stake. It's a pity. The moment when it's too late to do anything usually comes unexpectedly. And the owners can't get through.
Although, if the authorities really wanted to, they probably did everything they needed to.
“Invaluable assistance in collecting materials about the history of the plant was provided by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Khokhryakov, Vasily Maksimovich Semyonov and other comrades. Builders led by Yuri Dmitrievich Popov, workers of the machine shop led by Leonid Petrovich Vasin, Viktor Vladimirovich Rakov, a fresco maker of the Bolotino time, and other comrades, made a great contribution to the design of the museum building. It is impossible not to note the great contribution to the creation of the museum of history on a voluntary basis by the worker of the Vyshnevolotsk Museum of Local Lore Galina Georgievna Monakhova, who even gave her vacation to this cause.(“Krasnomaisky glazier”, 1988). In the museum you can not only see samples of Krasnomai products, but also learn about the people who created them. Lyudmila Kuchinskaya, Viktor Shevchenko, Anatoly Silko, Sergey Konoplev, Svetlana Beskinskaya, spouses Elena Esikova and Konstantin Litvin. The last connoisseurs of art in Tver need no introduction. Esikova and Litvin still work as glass artists and participate in various exhibitions. 
"Red May" is the birthplace of zinc sulfide glass. About 30 years ago, the plant began to master this new Soviet glass. Interest in an unsolved technological novelty helped to reveal all the transformations of color. By the will of the artist and craftsman, golden glass turned out to be able to turn into opal, then icy-smoky, then suddenly flash with colored ornaments or marble stains.(“Krasnomaisky glazier”, 1988). Sulfide or sulfide-zinc glass, colored with sulfur compounds of iron and zinc, was created in 1958 by the technologist of the Leningrad Art Glass Plant (LZKhS) Evgenia Ivanova and the engineer of the same enterprise Alexander Kirienen. A year later, it was already mastered at the Vyshnevolotsk plant and soon became its hallmark. For a wide range of colors and the ability to change it depending on the temperature and duration of processing, sulfide glass is also called the "Russian miracle".
“Recently, experimental melting of glass was carried out at the Krasny May glass factory, the raw material for which was sand delivered from Georgia. Employees of one of the research institutes in Tbilisi set the task to check the suitability of local sand deposits containing a large percentage of iron for the production of building glass. They turned to the Reds for help. Workers of the chemical laboratory of the plant, together with the staff of the fourth workshop, successfully tested the sand - building glass of green, blue and light blue colors was obtained. The results of this experiment will serve as the basis for setting up the production of colored profiled glass for the construction needs of Georgia.”(“Kalininskaya Pravda”, 1980). The range of the plant's products, as I noted in the first part, was wide. However, not only a sulfide-zinc vase, but also an ordinary glass or the same building glass from Krasny May can be called Russian miracles. Such is the specificity of the plant: it was impossible to do bad and even mediocre work here. Or they couldn't.
(“Tverskaya Zhizn”, 2004). In fact, the sale of Krasny May products on the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway began much earlier. In 1992, they definitely stood with vases - men and women, groups and singles. "Points" were located for more than twenty kilometers from the turn to Leontievo and almost to Khotilovo. So the unique plant survived the dashing 90s. Survived. At the very least, but survived. Reports on the economic upsurge, which accompanied the first steps of the new President Vladimir Putin, should have been replenished with "Red May". But the trouble came from where it was not expected at all. 
All that's left of the brand store
“And now all this economy belongs to two St. Petersburg entities - ZAO Holding Company Ladoga (V.V. Grabar) and a certain citizen Pruzhinin Mikhail Romanovich ... Coincidentally, Mikhail Romanovich is one of the closest and most trusted acquaintances of the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Tver Region and former Vyshnevolotsk mayor Mark Zhanovich Khasainov"(“Tverskaya Gazeta”, 2004). Time is usually cited as the culprit of destroyed enterprises or collective farms. Confusion. Repartition. But behind every action, as a rule, there are specific people. "Red May" is one of the few examples where these people are called by their first names. According to the author of the article, in 2002, the new management of the plant requested a loan of 2.2 million dollars from an American company to create a line for the production of bottles (a unique enterprise suddenly switches to bottles?) under state guarantees. That is, in the event that Krasny May fails to fulfill its loan obligations, two million "greens" must go overseas. As a result, this is exactly what happened: the scheme has long been worked out and debugged. And no money, no bottles, no crystal.
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“In 1987 alone, our museum was visited by 12.5 thousand people, including workers, artists, veterans of the party, war and labor, famous people in the country. The guests of the plant and the museum were the first commissioner of the cruiser "Aurora" A.V. Belyshev, Hero of the Soviet Union N.I. Biryukov, pilot-cosmonauts Yu.A. Gagarin, P.R. Popovich, N.N. Rukavishnikov, O.G. Makarov. Artists Maya Kristalinskaya, Olga Voronets, Boris Shtokolov, Kola Beldy, Vyacheslav Tikhonov and others left enthusiastic reviews in the Book of Honored Guests. The Red May plant and its museum are known not only in our country, but also far beyond its borders. Honored guests from many countries visited the museum»(“Krasnomaisky glazier”, 1988). And today the museum is empty and oblivious. And the exhibits there are clearly not 4 thousand, as it was a quarter of a century ago, but clearly less. Where are the others? Did they go to the St. Petersburg "owners" or somewhere else?
HISTORY OF THE GLASS FACTORY "RED MAY"
The glass factory "RED MAY" is located on the bank of the river Shlina. One of the largest in the country, it was founded in 1859 as a chemical by the Moscow titular adviser Samarin. Products such as vitriol, vitriol oil, lamp oil, ammonia, strong vodka and various other acids were produced. But Samarin did not have enough funds for the further development of production and the plant was bought by the Vyshnevolotsk merchant of the 2nd guild Andrey Vasilyevich Bolotin. In 1873, the owners of the plant, the merchants of Bolotiny, built the first oven, which produced glassware: dining room, confectionery, ceiling lamps. In the same year, an experienced glassmaker came to the plant - the owner of the secret of preparing the mixture for melting colored glass - Vasily Alekseevich Vekshin. And for the first time in Russia at the Bolotinsky plant they began to brew colored glass with a variety of colors. Already in 1882 and 1886, the new products of the plant, "absolutely remarkable in their diversity and unexpected elegance" (as the well-known professor of the time - "glass expert" A.K. Krupsky, appreciated it), was awarded two gold and two silver medals All-Russian art and industrial exhibitions in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod for the rich color scheme and for the thoroughness of processing. In 1920, the plant was nationalized and it became the property of the state. On May 1, 1923, a meeting of workers and employees of the plant was held, at which a decision was made to rename the plant to the plant "RED MAY". Since that time, the plant began to expand, they began to build new glass melting furnaces.
During the Patriotic War (1942-1945), the plant produced technical glass in large quantities for the needs of the Navy and aviation, semaphore and traffic light lenses, lamp glass, and storage vessels were manufactured. In the 1940s, a very important period in the history of the plant, when the first government order for the production of ruby glass for the Kremlin stars was honorably completed. In 1946, the task was completed successfully. In the same year, the plant was awarded the Red Banner of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions and the People's Commissariat of Light Industry for eternal storage. During the war years, the factory team 23 times won first place in the All-Union socialist competition among light industry enterprises with the presentation of the challenge Red Banner. Seven times the plant was awarded II place.
In the 1950s and 1960s, glass products were cut with gold, enamel, chandelier, and silicate paints at the plant. Products from two-three-layer glass were also produced. But the Krasnomay people were especially famous for their sulfide glass, which is not in vain called the “Russian miracle” for its inexhaustible richness of color. And it is also called so for its exceptional ability to change color depending on the temperature and duration of processing, which gives the mass product a unique originality. This material was mastered by the plant in 1959, "RED MAY" was, in fact, the only enterprise not only in our country, but throughout the world, where sulphide glass was fixed as an indispensable glass of the factory assortment.
Masters of "Red May" preserve and continue the age-old tradition of working with colored glass, fluently mastering the whole range of material processing techniques. The manufacture of colored glass has attracted the attention of many well-known glass artists, who perform their works conceived in color at Krasny May.
St. Petersburg artists worked at the plant: Honored Artist of the RSFSR B.A. Smirnov and D.N. Deemyashkevich, Muscovites L.A. Fomina, T.P. Sazhin, L.I. Savelyeva, V.A. Filatov, Honored Artists of the RSFSR G.A. Antonova, A.Ya. Stepanova, S.G. Ryazanova, Estonian E.O. Yygi and artists from other republics.
The company produced vases, souvenirs, dishes, decorative items, lamps, architectural glass. The basis of the factory assortment is made up of new samples created in the art laboratory of the plant, where artists worked, whose names are known in artistic glassware: Honored Artists of the RSFSR A.M. Silko, S.M. Beskinskaya, V.Ya. Shevchenko, L.A. Kuchinskaya, artists S.A. Konoplev, V.G. Khrolov, A.I. Novikov, K.N. Litvin, E.Yu. Esikov.
New products of artists and mass production of the plant were demonstrated at all-Union, international exhibitions and fairs.
Thus, the history of the enterprise has more than 140 years.
DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS
The glass factory "RED MAY", one of the oldest factories in the industry, was founded in 1859. The plant is a city-forming enterprise for a village with a population of 7,000 inhabitants, most of whom worked at the plant. The company is known for making ruby stars for the Moscow Kremlin. The plant produced a wide range of products. It has an area of 24 hectares, a railway line, a gas pipeline, and other necessary communications and infrastructure elements.
For the past ten years, the plant has gone through complex processes and in 2001 survived the financial crisis. In 2002, the old enterprise was restructured and assets were prepared for the implementation of investment projects. A new legal entity LLC “Glass Factory “RED MAY” was organized, which has the necessary production facilities and land plots on the right of ownership.
The following projects are currently being considered for implementation:
1. Organization of production of glass containers. Several options have been considered:
o Organization of the production of glass containers with a capacity of 250 million standard containers per year with the construction of a new compound workshop. The volume of investments is 25 million Euros.
o Organization of production of glass and exclusive containers and electro-technical glass by press-blow method on the basis of 3 6-section glass-forming machines from Bottero (Italy). The volume of investments is 11 million Euros.
o A number of options differing in capacity, capital investment and equipment placement.
2. Increasing the production of glass containers up to 500 million standard containers per year with the construction of a new container shop. The volume of investments is 20 million Euros.
3. Production of architectural and building glass (patterned, colored, reinforced) with a capacity of up to 200 thousand square meters per month. The volume of investments is 12.5 million Euros.
4. Production of electrical glass (plafonds, luminaires). The volume of investments is 1 million Euro.
5. Manufacture of high-quality tableware, souvenir and art products from plain and colored glass, crystal.
The choice of projects is mainly due to the historical orientation of the plant for the production of this range of products. The validity of work with the container direction is confirmed by separate marketing researches.
The success of the project implementation is due to the favorable economic and geographical position of the RED MAY glass factory between the two main markets of the country - Moscow and St. Petersburg (the factory is located practically on the federal highway), the availability of production facilities, fixed assets, infrastructure and communications, as well as required production staff.
The projects are fully provided with raw materials for production, and the main types of raw materials - quartz sand and dolomite - are available in large quantities at deposits in Central Russia, and the plant receives sand directly from the Tver region. Explored reserves of natural raw materials for glass container production will be enough for another 100-200 years of the industry. Employees of the glass factory "RED MAY" already have the necessary connections and experience with suppliers of raw materials for glass production.
By June 2002, technical work was carried out to select equipment suppliers, potential designers and contractors for all types of work.
The depth of project development is at different levels. So for the first three projects, business plans are fully prepared, for the rest, integrated economic calculations have been carried out. Pre-project proposals and feasibility studies were received from the branch design institute GIPROSTEKLO (St. Petersburg), SPC "Steklogaz" for container projects and the project for the production of architectural and building glass. Negotiations were also held and potential suppliers and contractors were selected.
Negotiations have been held with potential consumers of products on all projects, contracts for the supply of products in 2003-2004 have already been concluded for container projects.
The main issue for launching these projects is the issue of funding. It can be solved taking into account the possibility of implementing projects both within the framework of one legal entity, and separating individual projects into separate legal entities.
TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS.
The first limitation is related to the capacity and condition of the existing composite (raw material) shop. With minor modernization, the existing workshop can produce up to 250-300 tons of charge (raw materials) per day. In a comprehensive review of the above projects, it is necessary to take into account the possibility of supplying all industries with raw materials at the same time.
Using the existing compound workshop, we can talk about the operation of industries with a total charge consumption of 250-300 tons.
For large container production, it is necessary to build a new compound workshop, which is taken into account in the corresponding investment project. The new compound shop will be able to provide production volumes of 300-600 tons of charge per day, with the possibility of increasing its capacity with little investment up to 800-1000 tons per day. This creates an opportunity, under favorable market conditions, to increase production volumes, for example, containers, by 3-4 times by building a new production workshop on the existing territory of the plant. This development option is considered and tied to the territory by the GIPROSTEKLO Institute.
The second limitation concerns the simultaneous implementation of projects, since the most successful solution for some of them fits into the same production building.
For all other issues, the plant has sufficient infrastructure.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PROJECTS.
CONTAINER PROJECTS.
Today in Russia there is a favorable situation for investments in the production of food glass containers. The shortage of glass containers arose due to the lag in the pace of development of domestic glass container production from the growth rates of demand from Russian food industry enterprises, both in quantitative and qualitative terms.
The differences in the proposed projects come down to the difference in production volumes and the possibility of implementing the second project with significantly lower investments and without capital investments in the construction of new production buildings and structures, a new compound workshop.
At the first stage, according to the recommendations of independent experts and specialists of the plant, the most preferable project for implementation is the organization of production with a capacity of 250 million conventional containers per year. This option will make it possible to create the maximum possible container production with the possibility of producing a wide range of products in the shortest possible time (12-14 months from the start of financing).
This project can be implemented in the building of workshop No. 5.
Full business plans of the mentioned projects are available for review and consideration.
PRODUCTION OF ARCHITECTURAL AND BUILDING GLASS.
At the moment, the production of colored patterned glass and reinforced glass in Russia is practically absent. These types of products enter the country's market from Belarus and European countries. In addition to the difference in the cost of energy, raw materials and labor, pricing is also affected by the cost of delivery.
The purpose of the implementation of this project is to create a production facility for the production of products according to the "price-quality" characteristic that exceeds all existing offers on the market.
The glass factory RED MAY has been producing this type of product for 30 years. The last sales before the stop of this production due to moral and physical wear and tear were carried out in the spring of 2002.
As part of the project, the plant will be able to produce glass of all required sizes up to 1800 mm wide and 2 to 15 mm thick.
This project can be implemented in the building of workshop No. 5 or in the building of workshop No. 4.
For production, it is necessary to build a new glass melting furnace with the ability to melt colored glass and install a line based on a rolling machine. The German company RUREX was chosen to supply the rolling machine. The general contractor and designer is the German company HORN.
MANUFACTURE OF ELECTRO-TECHNICAL GLASS.
The glass factory RED MAY produced up to 80% of electrical glass in the USSR. In recent years, the assortment consisted of milky overlay glass for industrial and domestic purposes.
Within the framework of the new project, negotiations were held with the Turkish company Adachi on cooperation in the production and sale of ceiling lamps using Turkish technology with a capacity of 500,000 - 1,000,000 pieces per month, while maintaining the production of the usual assortment of the plant.
Thus, the project is supported by the sale of products and is of an import-substituting nature.
This production is planned to be fully organized in the existing building of the educational and production building (workshop No. 6). The production will consist of two glass melting furnaces of 10 and 2 tons, sections for frosting and glass decoration.
VARIOUS WARE, ARTISTIC GLASS AND SOUVENIRS.
This direction of production is the main historical for the plant. The plant's glass museum clearly demonstrates the possibilities and achievements of this production. Many of the artists' works are included in catalogs and kept in state museums across the country.
At the first stage, within the framework of this project, it is planned to establish the production of court dishes (glasses, products with a stem, salad bowls, candy bowls, vases) by a mechanized method based on a press, a press-blow method, a centrifugal molding method.
The market strategy is reduced to the production of affordable and cheap, and at the same time, practical and high-quality products for the least affluent and middle strata of consumers. The solution of the problem of sales will be solved through wide distribution and import substitution, in particular, Turkish goods.
At the moment, this project is in the stage of development and selection of equipment for production, preparation of a business plan.
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