80 years ago, trouble came to every family, touched adults and children, women and men - the war began ...
In the same 1941, the Solikamsk sulphite-cellulose plant began to work - this was the name of JSC "Solikamskbumprom" in those years.
On March 31, 1941, the first product of the plant was received - unbleached pulp. But very soon the Great Patriotic War intervened in the history of the establishment of the enterprise: more than one and a half thousand workers went to the front, women, old people, children remained at the machines.
From the memoirs of the enterprise veteran A. Bogdanova:
“On the first day of the war, a rally was held at the entrance of the plant, and a 12-hour working day was announced. In the workshops, only one light was on for blackout purposes. After working for 12 hours, we went to unload the wagons with coal. And so for four years: no days off, no time off. ”
The price paid for the Victory by the wallets, the home front workers, is high: difficult living conditions, hunger, exhausting work, undermined health and the loss of loved ones. In the most difficult time of war, they did not surrender, and hourly, every day, they performed their everyday feats of labor. The plant worked around the clock, continuing to build up its capacities, which were small at the beginning of the war. But after a short time, a whole evacuation base of paper industry enterprises from all over the country was located on the territory of the sulphite-cellulose plant.
In 1942, the enterprise switched to the production of products for the needs of the front: liner cardboard for gas masks, technical hydrolysis alcohol, yeast, foundry fasteners, photosensitive and graph paper.
From the memoirs of a veteran of the enterprise:
“In July 1942, the team was given a task: to master the production of cushioning cardboard for gas masks with a thickness of 2.5 mm. We worked day and night to solve the problem, the cardboard turned out to be thin, it cracked when winding, but people did not retreat. Finally, we got a cardboard with a thickness of 1.2 mm, glued it by hand ... "
From the first days of the war, the workers of the plant accepted social obligations for the deduction of two days' earnings for the creation of a tank column. Wallets also collected over 700 thousand rubles for the construction of an air squadron and the restoration of Stalingrad, for which in the spring of 1943 gratitude came to the plant from the Kremlin, and in September 1944, the collective was awarded the challenge Red Banner of the People's Commissar of the Pulp and Paper Industry of the USSR and the Challenge Red the banner of the city committee of the CPSU (b).
The history of JSC "Solikamskbumprom" forever inscribed the names of the workers of the plant who went to the front, and the workers of the rear, including: repressed, exiles - all those who put their soul, health, and sometimes even life into the work of the plant. Many of them have been awarded orders and medals.
But heroism is measured not by government awards, but by life itself. Victory has names. There are more than 3.5 thousand of them - all of them are collected on the pages of the second part of the publication "Memory is alive", dedicated to home front workers. From the pages of the collection one can hear the voices of wallets who have accomplished a real feat.
Today our task is to preserve the historical truth, to pass on to the descendants the memory of those terrible events. And most importantly, we, the heirs of the Victory, must be worthy of this greatest feat, must bear in our hearts the memory of dedication, strength of spirit and unbending will of those whose incredible work is invested in each of the 1418 days ...