78 thousand plants and factories killed by Russia in the last 20 years

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The country returned to small-scale production and subsistence farming with a predominance of manual labor.

A heated discussion on social networks of the reasons for the next "space failure" prompted bloggers to recall all the losses of Russia over the past 20 years. An exhaustive list of those with a sarcastic title "Achievements" was presented by blogger Veronika Maruseva:

• Plant "Moskvich" (AZLK) (born 1930 - killed in 2010)
• Factory "Red Proletarian" (born 1857 - killed in 2010)
• Izhevsk Motorcycle Plant (born 1928 - killed in 2009)
• Irbit Motorcycle Plant ("Ural") (born 1941 - present in a coma after being wounded)
• Pavlovsk Tool Factory (born 1820 - killed in 2011)
• Lipetsk Tractor Plant (born 1943 - killed in 2009)
• Altai Tractor Plant (Rubtsovsk) (born 1942 - killed in 2010)
• Shipyard "Avangard" (Petrozavodsk) (born 1939 - killed in 2010)
• Shipyard OJSC "HC Dalzavod" (Vladivostok) (born 1895 - killed in 2009)
• Radio plant PO "Vega" (Berdsk, Novosibirsk region) (born 1946 - killed 1999)
• Saratov Aviation Plant (born 1931 - killed in 2010)
• Omsk Transport Engineering Plant (born 1896 - killed in 2009)
• Chelyabinsk watch factory "Molniya" (born 1947 - killed in 2009)
• Uglich watch factory "Chaika" (born 1938 - killed in 2009)
• Second Moscow Watch Factory "Slava" (born 1924 - killed 2006)
• Chistopol watch factory "Vostok" (born 1941 - killed in 2010)
• Moscow Machine-Tool Plant. Sergo Ordzhonikidze (born 1932 - killed 2007)
• Plant "Stankomash" (Chelyabinsk) (born 1935 - killed in 2009)
• Ryazan Machine-Tool Plant (born 1949 - killed in 2008)
• Kronstadt Marine Plant (born 1858 - killed 2005)
• Kuzbasselement plant (born 1942 - killed in 2008)
• Irkutsk Radio Receiver Plant (born 1945 - killed in 2007)
• Precision casting plant "Tsentrolit" (Lipetsk) (born 1963 - killed in 2009)
• Tomsk Instrument Plant (born 1961 - killed 2007)
• Plant "Sivinit" (Krasnoyarsk) (born 1970 - killed in 2004)
• Krasnoyarsk TV Plant (born 1952 - killed 2003)
• Factory "Dynamo" (Moscow) (born 1897 - killed in 2009)
• Oryol plant of control computers named after K. N. Rudnev (born 1968 - killed 2006)
• Orenburg hardware plant (born 1943 - killed in 2009)
• Khabarovsk plant "EVGO" (born 2000 - killed in 2009)
• Ulyanovsk radio tube plant (born 1959 - killed 2003)
• Sibelektrostal plant (Krasnoyarsk) (born 1952 - killed in 2008)
• Orenburg factory of silk fabrics "Orenburg textile" (born 1972 - killed 2004)
• Barysh factory named after Gladysheva (Ulyanovsk region) (born 1825 - killed 2005)
• Flax association them. I. D. Zvorykina (Kostroma) (born 1939 - killed 2011)
• Far Eastern Radio Plant (Komsomolsk-on-Amur) (born 1993 - killed in 2009)
• Velozavod (Yoshkar-Ola) (born 1950 - killed in 2006)
• Velozavod (Nizhny Novgorod) (born 1940 - killed in 2007)
• Perm Bicycle Plant (born 1939 - killed 2006)
• Baltic Shipyard (born 1856 - killed 2011)
• Sibtyazhmash plant (Krasnoyarsk) (born 1941 - killed in 2011)
• Plant "Khimprom" (Volgograd) (born 1931 - killed in 2010)
• Irkutsk Cardan Shaft Plant (born 1974 - killed 2004)
• Izhmash plant (Izhevsk) (born 1807 - killed in 2012) …

… and about 78 thousand plants and factories.

What happened to space during these years:

• In March 2001, the Mir space station was flooded.
• In December 2010, three Glonass satellites were not launched into orbit at once and sank in the ocean. ("Glonass" is the development of the USSR).
• In February 2011, the Geo-IK-2 military geodetic spacecraft did not get in touch.
• In August 2011, the Express-AM4 telecommunications apparatus and the Progress cargo ship were lost.
• In November 2011, a failure with Phobos-Grunt.
• In December 2011, the Meridian satellite was lost.
• In August 2012, a failure with two communication satellites "Express-MD2" and Telkom 3.

The number of people working in the countryside is 1, 17 million people (it has decreased 5 times over 20 years). There are more than 5 million unemployed in the countryside (they are not counted, since they have subsidiary plots).

20 years ago, Russia numbered 48 thousand large collective agricultural farms. Today their number has decreased fivefold, 30% of them are unprofitable. The country returned to small-scale production and subsistence farming with a predominance of manual labor.

Today more than 50% of livestock products and 90% of vegetables are produced in private farmsteads. Manual labor replaced machines. In terms of labor productivity, the country is 8 times lagging behind the EU level.

Grown products from a private trader are bought for a pittance by the diasporas of dealers. There are no consumer unions for a long time.

15600 clubs, 4300 libraries, 22000 kindergartens, 14000 schools were closed. 20 thousand villages have disappeared, 47 thousand villages remain, in many of which a few old people who are living out their days eke out a beggarly existence.

In 1990, the USSR produced 214 thousand tractors and 65 thousand combines. Now in the Russian Federation - 8 and 7 thousand, respectively. Of the 21 million cows (in the RSFSR), less than 7 million remain. Over the years of reforms, the volume of agricultural production has decreased by almost 2 times.

The country has lost food independence and today buys almost 50% of food products. Agricultural engineering is in a disastrous state. The entire agricultural infrastructure of the USSR disappeared, including 27,000 collective farms and 23,000 state farms provided with agricultural machinery and qualified personnel.

After de-collectivization, the situation in the village became critical - there are no people, no work, no equipment. The land, which has been cultivated for hundreds of years, has already been overgrown with small forests by 35% in 20 years.