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THE SPECIFICITIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN INDUSTRY IN THE PERIOD OF THE 18-19 CENTURIES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF SODA PRODUCTION)

E S Torosyan

Abstract

At the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century the process of formation and development of various branches of the chemical industry started. One of the important industries was the industrial production of soda. Soda was an essential element for the textile, leather, glass and soap industries in this period. In the first half of the 19th century. Russian entrepreneurs were looking for a way to make the production of soda cheaper. At the end of the 18th - first half of the 19th century soda in Russia was made from ash. The study of bitter-salt lakes in the South of Russia and in Western Siberia allowed the discovery of Glauber?s salt deposits, which became the main raw material for the industrial production of soda. In 1864 the first soda plant was opened in Barnaul. In the 1880s soda plants were established in the European part of Russia. The largest producer of soda in Russia has become the ?Lyubimov, Solvay and K?? factory in the Urals. The new sector formed in the environment of protectionist policies for soda plant owners, carried out by the government. This paper will examine some aspects of the history of the soda production in Russia, i.e. sources and specifications of raw materials, history and business operations of soda plants as well as description of their respective owners.

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DOI resolver: doi.org/10.5593/sgem2019/5.3/s21.114

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