Kondopoga Paper and Pulp Mill

(full name, S. M. Kirov Kondopoga Paper and Pulp Mill), a major enterprise of the Soviet cellulose and paper industry, manufacturing news-print from semifinished products of its own manufacture. The mill is located in the city of Kondopoga in the Karelian ASSR. Construction of the mill was begun in 1923, and the first paper was produced in 1929. During the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45 the mill was completely destroyed. After the war it was restored, modernized, and expanded. The mill is equipped with high-speed paper machines. High-output equipment has been installed at the groundwood and pulp mills, and the power-plant and auxiliary equipment capacities have been increased. The entire production process is mechanized and automated. Indus-trial ethyl alcohol, fodder yeast, and wood fiberboard are manufactured from the production waste materials. Paper production in 1972 was 13.7 times greater than that of 1940, and in 1969 the products were given the State Mark of Quality. The mill was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1971.