by the standards of industrial giants, production in donetsk suburbs sew clothes, assemble furniture, produce sausage and baby food, and the heads of these enterprises, despite daily shelling, not only have not curtailed production and are planning to expand. donetsk factory of refrigerators is an enterprise with a long history this year it turned 60 years old. these workshops began work in 1963 and until the ninety-first plant produced refrigerators under a brand known throughout the union. donbass refrigerator in operation started his work of the sixty-third year. so it works, as it were, almost non-stop, as, of course, there were problems throughout history, but these problems still came to the point that we made refrigerators of any format. these are both refrigerators and freezers, both two-chamber single-chamber, starting from 2016

, the plant regularly changes its model range, for example, at the end of the twenty-second year. that is, after the start of production, a new production line was launched at the enterprise. each such update is, first of all, investments. average according to the director. the house is simply konstantin klimov, the development of refrigerator models costs about 100 million rubles. if the design does not change, if it does not develop. acceptance, the refrigerator will simply be uncompetitive. this is a very big problem for the enterprise for everyone. so everyone understands this very well and knows if we remain in the format of the sixteenth year. here, yes. in such a format, how was the beginning? yes, i'm not saying that this is a bad refrigerator. he was good. yes, but he in this format. here it really is in this form, like this, if we come to today, 2023 and see the refrigerator that we are now selling, then the client, uh, who pays attention to all this, he looks and understands what is better to buy. it is at this donetsk enterprise that they are offended when they hear

that the plant allegedly only assembles screwdrivers, that is, it assembles refrigerators from ready-made components. again , according to klimanov, the so-called localization of production at a single growth of 87%. well, look, and we have a huge localization. yes , we currently buy only the compressor. here are all the other materials we recycle and make. of these, the parts are assemblies and , in principle, the refrigerator share of the donetsk plant in the russian refrigerator market is approximately 5%. this is despite the fact that the company is located in a war zone. well, look at our main market for this russia, of course , today the liberated territory is gradually opening up. this is even in the donetsk people's republic, this is mariupol here. uh, it's under consideration zaporozhye, kherson starting from 2014 , the plant was shelled several times, the last arrival was last year and it is clear that, like

at other enterprises of donbass, donfrost. there is a personnel shortage, but we are still trying. uh, choose the team as much as possible so that it works. here we try to ensure that the team does not quit. eh, it's also about wages. this also applies to the entire social package that we are considering today. yes, uh, it’s like we’re walking like this, because there’s no other way, yes, there are not enough people kendirector. konstantin klimov has been working at the plant since the age of 18. for him, the plant is also a family story. but this is family stories sometime in 2006. my mother still works at the company. my brother works here at the enterprise now. well, it started in 2000. this is, i thought, family. where to go, as if my mother says, let 's go to the factory. and then he went to the factory. well , if on the steps, this is a very serious story. yes, this is the foreman of the assembly shop, where we are here, and the deputy chief

vacuum forming workshops. uh, next. this is half of the procurement production director. uh, well, and the last one is the deputy general director for production. in general , a production dynasty at a factory is not uncommon. naturally, there is turnover everywhere, but the main part of the team has been working at the enterprise for many, many years. larisa krutas joined the donetsk refrigerator plant 21 years ago. our products are not uh. hmm red words. you know such uh, but it seems to me, just now entering our store. i can see that our products are not inferior to the global brand. at us, uh, our own people are sometimes confused. uh, our technicians are very foreign labels there. well, i won't say that we're releasing

a bad one now. even sometimes. i say that even now our products are not better than the petrovsky district of donetsk, which suffers the most from shelling. here, well, this, of course, is such a question for us. well, we are working. as our boss, he says, with all his strength, he is working, we are running, we are trying. hey, we love our business. we cherish this, that she works cherished, what we do products and how to tell you? we bring joy to people, you know, it's scary. sometimes petrovsky district, sorry petrovsky district, therefore, well, how would it be for me now

, well, terribly scary, i feel very much, you live in the microwave district, they shoot yourself. you probably work here, even security. just wanted to say a little. yes, there, of course, you see, sometimes we don’t even notice the noisy one, when it arrives we hear we saw our uh building. well , they came together, removed the spirit and forward. a garment factory in the center of donetsk, in the valley of combat contact, no more than 15 km from here, the main profile of the enterprise, sewing overalls for industries and departments , we have been working for 28 years already, so the period is already solid , let's say for the enterprise. well, we produce, in principle, everything that can be produced, like

overalls and uniforms. yes, it's a school uniform. here is what we are doing now and uniforms for working specialties for doctors. well, in general, everything that can be called overalls and uniforms. this is how i see work, in general, it is in full swing. in fact you know well for 28 years. we actually didn’t have a simple small. well, i wouldn't even say. cold vacation during crete in 2007 and the beginning of the war of our war. so, when they started bombing us, then we also left, like a two-month vacation, but nevertheless we worked all the time, then the production, although small, but nevertheless a full cycle in one building. designers create models further in the neighboring rooms, they are sewn by an employee, and there is a shop on the ground floor. true, retail - this is about 10% of the total sales of the factory. basically, enterprises work with large customers. go away please look, well, more precisely, the workshop, no matter how surprising it is everywhere in russia

, everything is the same here, the girls work. this is actually a sewing shop. eh, we're closed. well, here on vacation. the girls here are cutting according to the patterns. that is, this is some kind of model. yes, yes, yes, this is a template for computer development. that is, it's not just that molodchinka turned on the light for us. you see, here are the fabrics, tchaikovsky textiles, we take the originals. russian production here they are branded, that is , it is clear that this is not a fake. larisa labutina opened her own business in the mid-nineties. there was no talk of any factory at that time. it all started with two rooms in the same building. well, first, as always , the idea arose, i am not a sewer by education. i am an economist, but it was a difficult time in the nineties. well, as it should have been interesting. i took care of it. well, in general, that's how it

came about. this is an enterprise from a small small studio, then they began to increase. in terms of sizes, there were large orders, they knew about us as somehow good manufacturers, but serious ones, as if the quality of the products were good, therefore, the customers gradually increased larisa expanded her business and by the middle of the 2000s she bought out all the areas in the building, having survived the crisis of 2008, labutina thought that the most difficult time was over, but in 2014 they began to bomb. donetsk it was, of course, terrible, but firstly in the fourteenth year. may i gave birth to my fourth daughter, so i planned to go on maternity leave. i planned to live in peace. and, well, how to raise a child, at least for a while. yes, well, nothing happened, that is, in may. i gave birth to her, after 2 days they started bomb. well, actually 2 months. we were horrified, we all were. well, i don't even know how to explain it in words, how to call it. well, let's go on vacation. yes, i went on vacation, the donbass is an industrial region, and

until 2014 the factory specialized in sewing work clothes , which at one point no one needed here, then after a short downtime, labutina redesigned the business, and began to sew military uniforms in small workshops. yes, these are the clothes in which he fights, i will not say that it was a military uniform there. this that moment, yes we do. well, this first one was amazing for us, there were some nuances, but again, we were told what to do, how to do it? and we talked a lot with the guys who are not. in battles, they told us what to do to make it convenient. what we need to do, again, like all enterprises in donbass, in 2014 the garment factory lost some of its employees. people, for obvious reasons, left donetsk, but labutina managed to save the backbone of the team. of people we left, well, somehow we have such a well-coordinated team, so we work hard, it was hard in the fourteenth year, when

it was completely here, then it started from our own, but nevertheless, we try and the girls survive working. labutina herself says that she didn’t even think about leaving larisa, who was born in yekaterinburg then sverdlovsk and when she was 5 years old, the family moved to donetsk in general , the common story for the union, everything is green, everything in roses is just some kind of miracle, it’s incredible. well, we're moving here. well, that's all. they took me here. i was 5 years. i grew up here and learned here. well, basically, yes. this is now my home. and well, where will i go, where will i go, so it’s already such a thing, who can go here, who feels like a person of the world here, please, all roads are open, by the way, now this is the story, very many were in europe familiar relatives familiar relatives . and now a lot of people are coming back. they come back because, well, how they went with the thoughts that everything will be wonderful there. here they come, they will give them, well, it's just gorgeous

no, they won't. there we say, there we are generally not considered as people. that is, they simply don’t, so they’re returning back after 2014. labutina essentially completely rebuilt her business and the changes affected the entire piece of equipment that she used to buy in europe, now she imports from china, and fabric suppliers have changed, 14 everything has broken down there to look for new ones. we started well, we understood again that we could get belarus and through russia we began to contact representatives of belarus, too, in russia they began to take russian fabrics. e russian production. chaikovsky textiles, there is the bryansk worsted combine , well, the normal quality suits everything, like all the productions of donbass at this sewing enterprise. now there are still problems with the staff of the skating rink, people from the region have added industry specifics. labutina says that by law, such organizations can only hire certified seamstresses, because it happens that a woman calls.

she is 40 years old. she says i have two children. i want to work. no, education. i know how to do something there sometime, but i don’t have chickens. well, in fact, we don’t have the right to hire her, and we can only teach her how to work at the enterprise, because the specifics of the work, because the machines are not the same as in the educational institution, they are completely different, they don’t know a lot about embroidery. you look at the technique, they don’t teach it. it’s just that it’s just to study at the enterprise in the city center, where the enterprise is located, they are regularly shelled by ukrainian artillery. how shelling affects production in almost no way in 9 years. people in donetsk are used to it, people are tired of being afraid. here we are tired of being afraid so, well, it's scary. do you understand how scary this is? well, it somehow went away in the background, you know how background music you don’t hear it. the sound increases, you hear it , we had an arrival just a few days ago on saturday in kalmius. well, there was a water

fountain above, i don't know a five-story building. well, it's very scary. yes, you got scared and stood up. that's it, alive hands and feet in place. everything went on to work. well, because we have no other options, it's strange. yes. this is strange. this is who will not survive, this is not will understand. well, this is a war. this is our existence, the background on which we work. and we have, well, there really are no other options. our basement is always open. that is , if something happens, we know that you can go down to the basement, we sealed the windows with foil. uh, well, it’s not that much, let’s say, it’s not a bullet that doesn’t penetrate, but at least it won’t give fragmentation. here is a gap to find now a military uniform of the total volume of the order takes no more than ten percent. the rest is overalls for departments and enterprises and school uniforms. here look, this is a work suit, what we sew is again provided. you see, there are flaps everywhere, seals everywhere, so that it doesn’t tear, as it were, does not come off. here is a pocket for

a mobile phone, our workers really asked to fit, because there are already more telephones. well, what else is the uniform of the ministry of internal affairs. this is a women's yes, further, well, dressing gowns of the ministry of emergencies . after the donbass returned to russia , logistics was significantly simplified for the region's enterprises. now the factory of larisa labutina works only for buyers from the dpr, but in immediate plans to supply clothes to neighboring regions of the country. now the school uniforms are already interested in working clothes. here we go to rostov, we are very interested there, that is, we are again interested in quality. yes, ordinary clothes are quite enough everywhere, but when people start to compare, when you give them a product that, let's say, is an order of magnitude higher. there are good quality fabrics, very large ones with all certificates of conformity. well, i mean, it's

really good quality clothes. and despite the fact that, yes, maybe more expensive. somewhere, but orders. here is the enterprise of donetsk and other cities. donetsk agglomeration adapted to the work and conditions of hostilities. and to the lack of water, which is given here according to the schedule once every 3 days for several hours. it would seem that food production can work in such conditions, but we have adapted to the business at the meat processing plant in makeevka to the line. front. all the same 15 km. you know that we are provided according to the schedule, water, we are supplied in a certain mode not every day for a food enterprise, let's say this is, uh, a very dangerous factor, because we have a high sanitary requirement. well, let's say we went to what we expanded our base of water accumulation. yes, we purchased additional tanks and increased them during the days when water was supplied to electricity reserves.

there is again a danger that there may be some emergency shutdown substations , which again is highly undesirable for us. we have purchased, for example, generators supplied with such power that in case we are suddenly turned off, they will completely provide our entire production process. called a meat processing plant with a 26-year history, which is remarkable for all these years, the company has not stopped its work for a single day, even in 2014. well, yes, this is another reason for our pride, and in fact, not for a single day our production stopped. we had different levels of difficulty. we call them difficulties. these were not such insurmountable problems. we had a reorientation to a completely raw material base of the russian federation. we all worked with ukrainian raw materials from ukrainian components and in the 15th-17th centuries. we urgently reworked all recipes and developed all technological lines anew. it was a huge corpse

. the military operations were active. yes, they were dangerous, but we did not stop. but you know, how the team, being at home, many say that it is even scarier at home. when you are. here in the production process with colleagues. it doesn't feel that way, somehow it feels protected. that you are engaged in a common cause and this distracts the meat processing plant, it was lucky for all these 9 years there was no arrival here. although of course, it is impossible to say that the production is located in a safe area, because there are no safe areas, neither in makiivka nor in donetsk. well, we don’t have, let’s say, completely safe areas here. yes, within a radius of half a kilometer. here here, shells lay down. not now. it was a little earlier, but yes, we were worried donbass can’t be called an agricultural region, so 90% of the raw materials the meat processing plant buys in big russia after the autumn referendum with logistics has become much easier, so we work, as you can see, with chilled raw materials, by the way, not every enterprise can

boast of this, because chilled raw materials are considered to be a better component than frozen ones. therefore, we have always worked with chilled raw materials throughout our history. in this case. you are watching the work of a deboner, the survivors are the basic professions of our business, people who have been indispensable for manual labor for decades. see how they work with their hands. there are some aggregates there, but they do not directly replace the manual labor of these people in this case. here they are separating meat. now the plant is operating at 50% of its design capacity, supplying 300 tons of products per month to the shelves of donbass stores, as elsewhere in the region, the enterprise , for obvious reasons, has a shortage of personnel, the only factor where we cannot lay a reserve for ourselves, of course, is labor team of people. this is probably the most valuable thing in any production. we put their experience and their skills and uh, here they are. now the weakest link is people are leaving looking for

training. and we have established in production its own school of mentoring training, but it's still a process it takes time and uh, these are the people who have to work. that's the biggest problem with them at the moment . despite, to put it mildly, the difficult working conditions at the plant, we think about the development of immediate plans to start deliveries to the neighboring southern regions of the country, including the liberated territory, we believe that our products are different. well, the quality is good. we are always proud of this , it will find its buyer, including in stores and on shelves. uh, neighboring areas, of course, we do not forget about ours. eh, how to say? twin brothers yes this is ours here, zaporizhia region, well, the area is there, berdyansk melitopol, uh, there is a meat processing plant there. we know we are cooperating with them, but their capacity is insufficient to cover all, well, all the needs of the population, so we are also counting there and considering

development options in this direction for smell. the situation is much more complicated at another enterprise of the donetsk agglomeration, a baby food plant, which is located in makei all educational institutions of the front-line cities, where and the plant supplied products due to shelling by the armed forces, of course, transferred to a remote location at the moment , the enterprise's load is only 1.5%. uh, since september. we very much hope that e with the support of the ministry of education and the ministry of agro-industry. we will have the opportunity to go back to schools beyond our region, regardless of whether it means beyond makiivka because of donetsk, if the shelling does not stop here, and therefore, how would we expect the plant to be loaded up to 25%, the plant produces the entire line baby food production has grown out of the usual dairy cuisine. now

the company's products are sold only through retail stores, but there are difficulties. dairy baby food is a product with a very short shelf life, that is, products can be ordered on the shelf, there can be a maximum product that is there, uh, 1-2 days on the shelf and people should see it and be guaranteed to buy it, so how would standard networks for us. well, it's impossible. this is the first one or made to order or we have our own. uh, three or four there used to be more of them , but due to the fact that they are located in those areas that are shelled, then there they are closed now and again, many entrepreneurs are also in places of mass shelling. they don't work either. they are afraid. but despite the fact that right now the enterprise is unprofitable for objective reasons , it’s not that there are no layoffs, but on the contrary, the plant is actively looking for new employees . at the moment, we are actively preparing for september. we are looking for personnel and we cling to personnel

, we are fighting for personnel and we understand perfectly well that if we lose these people there is no alternative, we will not find specialists to prepare for highly skilled jobs. this is 3-4 months. most of the donbass entrepreneurs with whom we talked within the framework of this program say that people from other russian regions, when they find out that the products they see were produced in the front-line years, are very surprised. in general , there are entrepreneurs here who start from the fourteenth year, despite the shelling and hostilities, not for a single day stopped production. there is a war going on. well, he says, how are you there? how do you have production there in general, as if they are surprised, they are bombing everywhere. well, as if they are bombing here, here

they are bombing, and here they are working, as it were. shops are open, you can see for yourself, transport is running. well, yes, there is a hit there. i'm telling you, you're going to work today. you can’t go back, let’s say this, but how everything works its own furniture production in front-line makiivka sergey zhevnirenko created in the late nineties, it gradually grew into a small lotos factory, which is now for 25 years he has been working without interruptions, ended here, he went to work as a close-fitting worker at a furniture store , he worked dryly to sell.

the factory specializes in upholstered furniture sofas and armchairs. here, in several workshops , the full cycle of production, starting with design. well, yes, we are watching. we go to the exhibition and look at furniture. eh, we choose something for ourselves. uh, we are finalizing our furniture, as if the models that were. we add something there and remove it. uh, we buy, only wooden ones here after wooden ones are linings. here they do it. the rest we do entirely ourselves. production employs 25 people, and new personnel are needed, but with this, like with other enterprises, about which we talked about in the program, everything is difficult, many are now at the front, and someone left the donbass well, as it were, our waste is not thrown anywhere . it's

all being processed by us. there are moments. some somewhere under the roller, somewhere in the sidewall , somewhere something goes out, nothing is thrown out, nothing is thrown out, respectively. so we don't have anything extra. all our all our own need materials for about five years about five years. well, it wahhat, overhead, of course, it shoots quietly. and so for us, we would not specifically want to, well, who knows, how they want. where the missiles will fly. so it doesn’t depend on us. the factory is not located in the most shelled area of ​​makiivka, however , fortunately, there were flights near the workshops of the enterprise without victims, but it was on the weekend, that is, there was no one here. uh, we already knew this when we left, because there were funnels from

these fields, and so, well, i caught lucky furniture produced by lotos is sold on the local market in the stores of the dpr and lpr. recently, quite a lot of buyers from mariupol, but it happens that people come for sofas and neighboring southern russian regions come. even a couple of people came from russia to us. because of the rostov region from the crimea also well, again in the crimea, we have already been declared, maybe because of this they knew, but honey. already at this time, when the crimea became russia, several times already sent it covered at the factory, there is also store, but most of the products go to other retail outlets in the region, which take the furniture for sale. mostly. uh, you have a sales channel. well, roughly speaking, people are right to come here and choose here, because you yourself. you see, this is not

a conduit. and how we are. we're in a place that's, well, just social media. she recognizes retail buyers for 9 years of fighting in the donbas factory. its owner sergey zhurnarenko has adapted to all the complex ones. he says that not in 2014 or after the start of his own. he did not even think to stop production and leave his hometown. as they say, where i was born in this one came in handy, anyway, it's been here all my life. all this was done, built, built , and it is now for sale to someone. it may seem surprising, but in the most immediate plans of the owners of the factory, which are located about 15 km from the line of contact, they would expand production several years ago, the entrepreneur bought a building in the neighborhood, and now they are finishing what to expand? let's expand. here they took a room of 1,000 squares. for now we direct, here we prepare the order for work. that's what we plan, maybe this year

we will move him here. it sounds scary, but for 9 years, people in donetsk and its suburbs have become so accustomed to shelling that they began to treat them like bad weather, which you cannot influence, and entrepreneurs who continue to work , pay taxes and create jobs, still donbass in in every sense an industrial region.