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Pogar cigarette and cigar factory (Russia)

The history of the factory dates back to the acquisition by A.G. Rutenberg of the Tobacco Manufactory by Koffsky & Kunchczynski (Riga) in 1864.

Under the management of the new owner, a few years later, the manufactory turned into a large industrial company. In 1901, at the jubilee industrial exhibition in Riga, the company's products were honored with the gold medal, and the factory got the status of a first class factory. After A. G. Rutenberg’s death in 1905, the factory was run by his sons – Tobias, Max and Gustav, and in 1914, the factory was headed by Tobias Rutenberg alone. At that time, the factory counted 700 workers and produced 20 million cigars, 3.5 million cigarettes, 114 million cigarettes, and several tons of top grade pipe tobaccos.

Due to the First World War outbreak, Tobias Rutenberg decided to move a part of the production away from the fighting line. A part of the staff, molds for cigars, drying drums, tobacco cutters, pressing machines for pipe tobacco seasoning – everything required for the production was relocated to the town of Pogar in the Starodubsky Uyezd (county) of the Chernigov Government (province). At that time, about 1 million 830 thousand poods (1 pood=16kg) of tobacco were grown in the Chernigov Government of the Russian Empire, including those for the factory in Riga, which processed a part of the tobacco and sent the rest to the traditional European tobacco fair in Bremen. Thus, the Pogar Tobacco Factory by Rutenberg began in 1915. At the first time, the factory was run by Tobias’ cousin A. A. Johansson, and further, by his nephew Baron Lilienfeld.

After the October Revolution, the company was expropriated. The years before the Second World War under the Soviets were marked by a fast ravage of the regional tobacco growing and unstable operation of the company caused by raw material shortage. The turning point occurred during the years of collectivization - the period of the first five-year plans: the recovery of the production of tobacco raw materials in the region, a steady increase in the rate of cigar and cigarette production.

After the end of the Second World War and the rehabilitation of the factory, besides cigar making, they developed the production of oval cigarettes (such as Prima, Polet, Pamir), papirosas (Sever, Belomorkanal), filter-tipped papirosas (Liubitelskiye). The production of cigars never stopped (reaching 7 million pieces per year), the supplies of cigars from Pogar covered all the countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Individual experience of cutting, rolling, saucing, blending of tobaccos was preserved and transmitted from one generation of Pogar technologists to another.

In 1990s, the company was privatized, and the development and expansion of the consumer market for cigars, cigarillos, pipe and smoking tobaccos allowed returning to the recipes and technologies for the manual production of such products at a completely different level.

Since 2004, the manufacturing facilities of the factory the production of all products for LLC Smoltabak  (Smolensk), OJSC Alvis (Yekaterinburg), OJSC Astra (formerly  known as Perm Tobacco Factory, Perm), OJSC Kansk Tobacco Factory (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Region), OJSC Chelyabinsk Tobacco Factory  (Chelyabinsk), LLC Biysk Tobacco Factory (Biysk, Altai Territory).

The factory is the contractor of for the production of traditional Russian cigarettes Prima.

At present, the company is the largest and probably unique manufacturer of cigars, cigarillos, and of pipe, smoking and hookah tobaccos in Russia.

Current products:

Cigarillos:Aroma Cubana, Cherokee, X.O, Habanera, Aroma de Habana, Premier, Havanas, Cariba, Corsar of The Queen

Pipe tobaccos:Pipe Club, Bristol, Stevenson, Vintage, Mackintosh, Ppipe Tobacco from Pogar

Smoking tobaccos RYO-MYO:Redmont, Cherokee, Klan, Corsar of The Queen • Hookah tobaccos: Aravia Platinum, Al Arab, Al Bakhrajn, Al Ganga, Shisha, Leyla

Cigarettes:Stuardessa, Opal, TU-134, Rodopi, BT, Inter (production under the license by AD Bulgartabac Holding, Sofia), Сherokee, Mackintosh, Kazbek, Prima, Astra, РТ

Papirosa:Bogatyri, Stolichnye, The Bristol, Belomorkanal, Kazbek.

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