Kazan plant of the Krestovnikov brothers company as an innovative enterprise: the introduction of the method of hydrogenation of fats

Fan-Yung G. Y.

The subject of our research is the innovative enterprise policy pursued by the owners of the Krestovnikov Brothers Factory and Trading Partnership at their Kazan plant at the beginning of the XX century. The most important results of this policy and their importance for the development of the enterprise are analyzed. Specific measures aimed at improving the company's enterprise policy have been studied. The objective relationship between the improvement of production and the development of social infrastructure at an advanced chemical plant operating in a market economy and free labor is demonstrated. In our scientific work, we used, firstly, universal methods of scientific cognition (deduction, induction, analysis, synthesis, etc.), secondly, the most important principles of historical cognition (principles of historicism, the principle of comprehensive study of history, the principle of objectivity, etc.), thirdly, special methods of historical research (narrative, historical-genetic, synchronistic and other methods). All this made it possible to make a critical analysis of published and unpublished sources; to reveal the objective reasons for improving the production policy at the Kazan enterprise of the Krestovnikov brothers; to scientifically substantiate the periodization of the history of the enterprise; to identify similar signs of homogeneous processes (the development of chemical science and the production success of the plant, etc.), etc. An important conclusion is made about the existence of a union of science and enterprise in conditions of free competition.

Keywords:innovation enterprises of pre-revolutionary Russia, pre-revolutionary chemical industry, the enterprise policy of the company, the Krestovnikov brothers, Kazan province, Kazan stearin-soap-making, glycerin and chemical plant of the Krestovnikov brothers.