The Geography of Industry in the Sumy Region in the 20th century: Retrospective, Structure, Transformations

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in the Sumy district.The largest were the refinery in Sumy, which employed 1,120 workers; the sugar factory in the village of Kiyanitsa in the former Khotyn' district, which employed 648 workers, and the Duboviazivka sugar factory in Konotop district, employing 588 workers 1 .The alcohol industry was also a long-standing area of specialisation in the Sumy region.By the end of 1925, there were nine distilleries in the Sumy district, of which three were operating (in Sumy, Trostianets, and Stetskivka); in the Konotop district, there was one operating distillery (Popivka village).There was also brewing and malt production.Two breweries operated in Sumy, the Krasovytskyi brewery in Hlukhiv, the Gerner brewery in Konotop, and the Okrmiskhosp brewery in Romny.Other branches and industries of the food industry were also widely represented: milling, cereal, terry and oil.The energy sector was also developed.The first municipal power plant on the territory of the present-day Sumy region was built in 1902 in the city of Sumy 2 .In 1903, a power plant was built in Okhtyrka, and in 1904in Shostka.In the cities of Hlukhiv, Romny, and Konotop, the first power plants were built in 1912-1914.By 1925, power plants were operating in seven regional cities 3 .Machine-building and metallurgical enterprises began to appear in the Sumy region in the late nineteenth century.In 1870, an iron foundry and mechanical plant were founded in Svesa (Neplyuev's plant); an agricultural machinery plant (founded in 1891), the Vulcan foundry ( 1893), and the Belgian joint-stock company Sumy Machine-Building Workshops (1896) started operating in Sumy.In addition, as of 1915, there were mechanical factories in Sumy and its environs owned by A. Rosenquist (125 workers), T. Hetenko (16 workers), Z. Plaksa-Zhdanovych (46 workers), I. Holbert (21 workers), I. Varaksin (25 workers), Bilopillia, the factory of M. Halushkin (19 workers), and others.In addition to relatively large enterprises, there were many forges, workshops for producing agricultural implements and tools, and locksmith and turner workshops; there were even 24 small enterprises producing carriages.The chemical industry in Sumy region has been known since 1739, when the gunpowder plant (now the state-owned Zirka plant) began producing in Shostka.The building materials industry has long been a prominent part of the region's economy.The most widespread production was tile and brick.For 1 .., . . (- ): .:

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