Segezha Pulp and Paper Combine

an enterprise manufacturing sulfate pulp, paper, paper bags, forest-chemistry products, ethyl alcohol, feed yeasts, and carbonic acid. The plant was founded in 1936 in the city of Segezha, Karelian ASSR, on the shores of Vygozero. In 1939 the combine’s annual pulp production was 113,000 tons. After the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45 (by mid-1945), the plant’s production capacity was completely restored. Modernization of operating equipment, new construction, and technological re-equipping began in 1960.

The Segezha Pulp and Paper Combine occupies a leading position in the USSR and Europe in complex wood processing and the manufacture of paper bags. Beginning in 1960, only low-grade wood, such as sawmill waste and firewood, has been used for processing, thus saving pulpwood and helping preserve the environment. With the introduction of modern equipment, the combine’s total production volume in 1974 was valued at 109.3 million rubles; the combine produced 414,500 tons of pulp, 373,800 tons of paper, and 689 million paper bags.

The Segezha Pulp and Paper Combine was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1948.