The Itkul Distillery remained the only distillery in Altai Mountain Region until the late 1890s, thus ensuring considerable profits for its operations. Over this time, the enterprise grew to include a liquor factory in Barnaul (established 1882) and 46 liquor houses to distribute strong drinks. The annual revenue of the Iktul Distillery in 1882 amounted to 180,200 imperial rubles, accounting at the time for 42% of the turnover in goods produced in the Altai Mountain Region. At the All-Russia Industrial and Art Exhibition 1896 in Nizhny Novgorod, the distillery was awarded a Bronze medal for its development of the liquor industry in the remote areas of the Russian Empire. By the beginning of the 20th century, the Iktul distillery had become the largest distillery in the Altai region and the second-largest in Siberia with a production volume of 219,000 buckets of polugar p.a.