Address: 172001, Torzhok, Tveretskaya embankment, 82 Phone: (48251) 9-23-67 Fax: (48251) 9-18-65 HISTORICAL REFERENCE Home / Historical background The Torzhok Shoe Factory has a 90-year history. Where the factory buildings are now located more than a century ago, there was a steam mill of the Torzhok merchant Karomyshev. In 1884, the Tsvylev brothers bought the mill and until the beginning of the twentieth century there was a flourishing period of the flour-grinding enterprise. However, in 1910, production began to decline, which raised the question of the advisability of its further existence. It was decided to convert the mill into a shoe factory. The First World War and the revolutionary events that followed delayed reconstruction. On April 22, 1918, at a plenary meeting of the Torzhok District Executive Committee, a project was considered for rebuilding the mill for a mechanical shoe factory. By 1922, the new shoe factory was completely ready and put into production. At the beginning of 1927, the factory passed into the hands of the state from the Pobeda partnership, which had owned the enterprise since 1915. With the transfer of the factory to the state, its re-equipment continued until mid-1929. The factory was staffed with skilled workers who arrived from the leather and shoe factories of the cities of Ostashkov and Kimry, as well as local residents who had completed training in shoe business at the factories of the city of Kimry. In 1929, the Novotorzhskaya State Shoe Factory began to bear the name of the worker's shoe-maker Girshi Lekkert, who was executed by the imperial court for an attempt on the life of the governor. In November 1941, the factory was evacuated to the village of Vakhrushevo, Kirov region and was part of the leather and shoe factory named after I. Lenin Glavobuvi of the Ministry of Light Industry of the RSFSR. In October 1942 she returned back to Torzhok. The priority product of the factory was yuft shoes with a nail fastening method for the military, railroad workers, steelworkers. The main buyers of the factory were the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Railways and the largest metallurgical plants in the country. In the 70s, the factory employed about 3,000 people. The daily issue was 7000 pairs. The factory had two children's centers, a club, a gym, and housing. The enterprise had its own vocational school. The Torzhok Shoe Factory was one of the main city-forming enterprises. At the end of the Soviet era, many enterprises found themselves in a difficult economic situation. A fire in the main shop in the mid-80s and a general economic crisis in the country in the early 90s led the factory to cut production by more than three times and reduce the number of employees by almost ten times. By 2000, the company employed 350 people, the average age of employees is 56 years. The factory produced only 2,000 pairs of shoes per day. All social facilities and housing stock were transferred to city ownership. With the advent of the new millennium, the newest history of the factory begins and the revival of shoe production in Torzhok. In 2000, the Torzhok Shoe Factory became a member of the Vostok-Service Association of Textile and Light Industry Enterprises. At this stage, the management of the factory and the shareholders faced global tasks: increasing production volumes, restoring production facilities, purchasing equipment, quality and competitiveness of the footwear produced, retaining experienced and training young workers for the factory. To go to the main page of the site, follow the link print version The site was developed in the Research Institute "Centerprogrammsystem"