History
History of Roshal city and Roshal Chemical Combine named A.A. Kosyakova inextricably linked throughout their existence. Until 1914, the territory in which today is the city, was an uninhabited marshland known as "Krestov Brod."
The forests with swamps in the area at the beginning of the XX century belonged to the owner of the Misheronsky Glass Factory Blinov P.P. At the beginning of 1914, he sold nearly 10,000 acres of land in the tract Petersburg Stock Company P.V. Baranovsky. Then here unfolded construction of a large powder factory. While Russia has participated in the First World War, the powder was vital. Construction of the factory lasted for about two years, a record time for this type of construction.
Emerged at the factory settlement was originally called "Porohovoy Zavod" In 1918 it was renamed to Roshal, in honor of the head of revolutionary sailors of Kronstadt Semyon G. Roshal, who was killed in battle. At the same time, it was nationalized and handed over to the Supreme Council of National Economy.
In 1926, there began to emerge 3-4 storey houses of brick. They were built nursery, a school and a trade school. Of course, not without its appearance in 1939 in Roshal Chemical Technology College. Industrial city had to remain so for many years, bringing up and educating their own generation of chemists. In 1940, Roshal became a town. To factory has been placed and the narrow-gauge railway and was built barracks of the military, which dealt with the protection of factory area around its perimeter.
Already in the 30s of the last century, the factory became the initiator of the development and implementation of a powder production of wood pulp, the creator of new technological regulations and the place where for the first time in our country started to produce collodion (cellulose nitrate) used for the production of plastics, celluloid, nitrovarnishes, nitroenamels , smokeless gunpowder, dynamite and other explosive products.
In October 1941, when the front line closer to Moscow, according to the decision of the State Defense Committee, equipment of Roshal Chemical Factory was evacuated to the city of Rezh Sverdlovsk region. In 1942, the equipment has been returned to its original location, the plant reopened.
No wonder that the Soviet government was concerned about the operability of the plant. During the war years it was the largest supplier of gunpowder to frontline weapons and an important strategic object. During the war, about 3 thousand employees of the plant were awarded orders and medals, and in 1943 he was handed the flag of the State Defense Committee of the USSR.
The main stage of the plant development Roshal accounts for 50 - 60-ies of XX century. In 1957th it is combined with plastic plant under construction, and run new types of production: foam rubber, phthalic anhydride, acetic acid, acetate, polyester, cotton cellulose, hunting gunpowder "Sokol" and a host of other products. In 1963, the factory begins to be called Combine.
At the 1962nd for achievements in the creation and production of new technology, early implementation of the plan and in honor of its 50th anniversary combine was awarded the Order of Red Banner of Labor. In 1988 it was reorganized into the Production Association "Roshal Chemical Combine name of A.A.Kosyakova", in honor of Athanasius Alekseevicha Kosyakova, the first Soviet director of the Roshal factory, who held the post from 1918 to 1922. For his great contribution to the development and restoration of the production of his name as called House of Culture and the main street Roshal.
In the entire history of the plant it made: smokeless gunpowder "Sokol"; Collodion Medical; Polymer films, penopoliuritanovye; Polyamide resins, polyester; Acetic anhydride, diketene; Ether Technology; Gunpowder hunting; Nitromastika; Pyrite cinders; solvents; Upholstered furniture.
In the mid-90s it was officially announced about its bankruptcy, legally factory existed until 2006 when the external control.
At the meeting of July 27, 2016 in Moscow, which was attended by representatives of the Administration of the Roshal and guidance "SibirInvest" company, it was decided to establish a Krestovo-Brodsky Experimental Combine as continuing the traditions Roshal Chemical Combine named A.A. Kosyakova.