Voskresensk Cement Factory

(full name, Voskresensk “Giant” Cement Factory), one of the largest cement factories in the USSR. Located in the city of Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast. The principal cement supplier for the Moscow building-materials industry. It supplied cement for the Moscow-Volga Canal, the Moscow subway system, and other major construction projects in the early five-year plans. Plant construction began in 1931, and operation began in 1936.

The Voskresensk Cement Factory is furnished with highly productive equipment, including rotary cement-firing furnaces 3.6 and 3.3 meters in diameter and 108 m in length, with corresponding cement mills (2.2 × 12m). Between 1950 and 1958 the four e×isting rotary furnaces were rebuilt twice, and two raw materials mills (2.2 × 13 m) and two cement mills (2.2 × 12m) were constructed. Two rotary furnaces (3.6 × 150 m) were placed in operation between 1959 and 1965, along with other new equipment. In 1967 automation of production processes and basic equipment renovations was begun. A plant for the production of limestone powder and other materials was built in 1969. Compared with 1937, cement production had increased 6.9 times by 1956, 9. 9 times by 1965, and 10.8 times by 1969. The factory has been awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1966).