Streets of hometown

улицы шосткиThe personnel of PHARMHIM and their families learned about the history of Shostka from the times of its foundation till the beginning of 20th century. A well-known local Shostka historian Alexandra Plodistaya who has a unique knowledge about the history of the city performed a series of walking tours for the employees. There are intact preserved buildings located on Lenin street – former Sadovaya street, which are 100-150 years old. This is the house of the director of “Shostka gunpowder factory” (the current trade union committee of factory “Zvezda”), the building of the Treasury, the first auto garage built by Ginzburg contractor, military barracks building, firehouse. Alexandra Plodistaya, together with search team a few years ago, discovered an underground passage leading from the fire station to the territory of gunpowder factory. Thanks to Alexandra Ilyinichna the employees could go down to the underground passage and see it with their own eyes. According to the Deputy General director Larisa Yakubenko such retrospective tour helped to imagine what the city was like before and compare it with the present.

Alexandra Plodistaya and director of children’s art school in Shostka Yuri Loza are working on a unique project – the photo album book named “Shostka in the beginning of twentieth century by the eyes of Photographers,” where PHARMHIM is one of the co-sponsors. General Director of the enterprise Viktor Lyashenko as a native citizen and a patriot believes that he should help to maintain the historical evidence of formation of Shostka as one of the centers of defense industry in Ukraine.