History

OJSC “Crimean Soda Plant” started its history in 1967, the year when its construction activity began. The museum of the plant has accumulated material about scientists, who explored Perekop salt lakes and Lake Sivash, about designers who developed the plant project, about people who nailed up the first stakes into soil, on specialists and workers who took part in production of the first tons of material, director of the plant during the time when it was under construction and all those people who were at the head of the plant during subsequent years, about glorious labor dynasties, labor collective and its traditions.

From the very beginning construction of the plant system has been proved by proximity of Lake Sivash as a natural salt deposit, Balaklava lime stone natural formation, availability of energy resources and water reserves of the North-Crimean Canal, transportation junctions, closed salt lakes for discharge of production waste.

The first director of the plant Piotr Kharkov

These are the names of directors who headed the plant in the previous year: Boris Zolotukhin, Nicolay Diachenko, Leonid Rassilniy, Georgiy Gaponenko, Kirill Trandafil, Dmitriy Glazunov, Valeriy Spitsa, Vladimir Ponomarenko, Alexander Khalin.

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Remarkable Dates

• December 1973 – launching of dinatriumphosphate production
• July 1975 – launching of soda ash production
• December 1979 – launching of Ukraine soda ash dense production
• 1998 – reorganization in OJSC «Crimean Soda Plant»
• 2008 –setting up of a turbine for energy production
• 2008 –launching of table salt “Extra” production
• March 2009 – production of the 18-th million Mt of soda ash