Containers for "Commissar" 100 gr. The amazing facts about Liquor-vodka factories in the war (2)

Still it should be noted that the distilleries to the East were practically not evacuated, not before them. The country remained without alcohol, and therefore 28 new wine and vodka plants were built beyond the Urals. It was the deficit of vodka and alcohol that led to the cosmic price of vodka in the rear: in commercial stores, the cost of 1 bottle was one-third of the worker's monthly wage. 

And in the besieged Leningrad factory "LIVIZ" did not suspend its work for a moment, but alcohol and vodka went now only to the army. Moscow Plant The crystal was badly damaged, with the air raid on July 22, 1941, the Main Building completely burned out. It was restored and the plant continued its production. The plant even received the Banner of the State Defense Committee for its contribution to the victory. These two enterprises also produced dry alcohol and bottles with a combustible liquid. I would especially note the Leningrad plant, in conditions of famine and blockade, it mastered the production of vitamins from needles, "antiscorbutic," and so on. "Coniferous water". This water was supplied to the army and hospitals, and it was invented in 1941 at the Special Laboratory of the Leningrad Port. "In December 1941, I and the state inspector N.V. Besov Hill of the party instructed to check how the decision of the Leningrad City Council "On measures to prevent avitaminosis."

 Together with the staff of our institute we got acquainted with the work of 107 plants: sampled the infusion and analyzed it for the content of vitamin C. It fluctuated from one to four doses in a glass of infusion. Especially good taste qualities and high vitamin activity were the products of the liquor-and-vegetable plant. Only three small organizations produced coniferous infusion, practically free of ascorbic acid. It turned out that the exhausted workers, violating the instructions, did not spread conifer needles, but only sheared them with scissors. Therefore, the extraction was ineffective. "AD Bezzubov, winner of the Stalin Prize.

 Chemistry and Life, 1985. Since 1943, in one of the shops of the Leningrad distillery, the inventor IS Motyshin. launched the production of protein hydrolysis yeast. It was these yeast that saved many Leningraders from starving to death. Actually, the main production of "blockade yeast" was in a different place, but about this somehow another time.