Krasnyi Oktiabr Moscow Confectionery Factory

a major mechanized enterprise of the food industry in the USSR. It produces more than 200 types of confectioneries, including chocolate products, candies, toffee, and caramels. Some of the products are exported.

The factory was founded in 1867 by the Einem Company. Its workers participated in the revolutionary movement, conducting a series of strikes in December 1905 and fighting against the White Guards near Kamennyi Bridge and Serpukhovka in 1917. The factory was given the name Krasnyi Oktiabr’ (Red October) in November 1922. Before 1930 it produced, in addition to candies and chocolate, cookies, cakes, pastries, jams, and other goods. It subsequently specialized in the production of sugar products.

Since the end of World War II, the factory has undergone major modernization: all the basic processes have been mechanized and automated, and new production technology has been implemented. The factory workers and the workers at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of the Confectionery Industry developed the first production lines in the USSR for the manufacture of caramel (1951), solid chocolate (1956), coated candies (1960), and toffee (1962). In 1970 mechanization of chocolate production was completed. In 1965 the factory was awarded the honorary title of Enterprise of Communist Labor for its high productivity. In 1973 production was 54 percent above that of 1960. The factory has carton and printing workshops for the production of boxes and labels. The Krasnyi Oktiabr’ Confectionery Factory was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1966.