Chervona Zirka Company |
Our mission is premium quality production of seeding and
cultivating technique based on new technologies with the view to
satisfy our customers’ requests and provide harmonious development
of the Joint Stock Company in behalf of the staff, shareholders and
the region
Chief of the Board General Director
Sergey Kalapa
The factory Chervona Zirka” is one of the oldest manufacturers of agricultural equipment in Europe. It was established by British brothersRobert and Thomas Elvorti in Kirovohrad in 1874.
In 1877 the first production department was built for manufacturing of seeders and other equipment. The factory was building up fast.By the end of the XIX century the Elvorti factory (it was its name before 1922), it was the first and the only specialized manufacturer notonly in the Russian Empire but also in all Europe.
In the pre-revolutionary Russia the factory alongside with seeders produced threshers,oil-presses, millet-scourers and other agricultural equipment. The factory extended intensively and collected power. By the end of 1917 morethan 7,000 people worked at the factory. The Elvorti factory was nationalized in April of 1919.
By 1925 the factory produced as 2,5 times asmore seeders than in 1913.
In 1927-28 the factory started exporting the seeders in the countries of the Near East.
In 1929 the first in the USSR tractor pulled grain seed drill T-1 was produced which got Big Gold Medal” at the international agriculturalexhibition in Libava and in 1937 it got the most prestigious award of the exhibition "Grand-Prix".
During the Second World War the factory was evacuated to the Penza aria, now it’s the factory Belinskselmash” located in the town of Kamenka,Russia. Now this is the second-largest specialized enterprise in the CIS. Also it is a part of Hydrocomplekt” Corporation (Ukraine).
On January the 8th, 1944 when Kirovohrad was freed from the German Army the enterprise started to be rebuilt. At the reconstruction workedmostly women, teenagers, all citizens. There were destroyed for about 84% of all productive areas, nevertheless by the end of 1944 the factoryhad produced 262 seed drills.
By the end of 1945 there had been produced 1500 seed drills and lots of ammunition. By1950 the factory wasreconstructed (except for one destroyed shop). During that period the staff of the plant worked hardly to improve the construction of seeddrills, their technological level and developed 45 new types of seeding machines.
The productivity was annually rising and in 1955 the factoryreleased 78 428 seeding machines.