Tashkent Textile Combine

the largest cotton-textile enterprise in the USSR. It comprises spinning and weaving mills and a finishing factory and thread factory, in addition to a machine shop, a repair shop for electrical machinery, and other auxiliary sections.

The Tashkent Textile Combine was one of the first large textile enterprises of Middle Asia. Construction was begun in 1932. In 1934 and 1940 the first and second spinning and weaving mills began operation, respectively. Early in the Great Patriotic War (1941–45), a thread factory evacuated from Leningrad became part of the combine. During the war the combine produced 410 million m of heavy cotton fabrics for the front. In 1952 the combine’s third spinning mill began operating. The combine was equipped with new machinery, most of it made in the USSR.

The combine manufactures such cotton fabrics as calico, sateen, and madapollam. In 1975 it produced approximately 200 million m of finished fabrics and 380 million standard spools of yarn. By 1975 the combine had produced 555,000 tons of thread, 4,349 million m of unbleached fabrics, 6,129 million m of finished fabrics, and 6,773 million spools of thread. The Tashkent Textile Combine was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1944.