The beginning

The history of the yeast plant began in the 19th century. In 1891, brothers Yankel and Zelman Rakovshchiki founded a small enterprise on the outskirts of Minsk that produced yeast and alcohol. The enterprise was no different from the factories and workshops of other plants in Tsarist Russia with their brutal exploitation. Two years later, in June 1893, according to a project approved by the construction department of the Minsk provincial government, the Rakovshchiki brothers built a stone, steam, yeast-distillery plant in the first part of Minsk on Lyakhovka. From this time on, the Minsk yeast plant traces its history.

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1903-1912 years

The plant was a semi-artisanal enterprise, the main product of which was alcohol produced from grain, secondary raw materials were used to produce baker's yeast. Yeast was grown in oak vats, separated and filtered through a filter press. Formation and packaging of yeast briquettes was carried out manually. According to data from 1903, 22 people worked at the plant. In 1911, 120 tons of yeast were produced monthly and 55 people were already employed. Over time, production developed, improved, and increased capacity. In 1912, a workshop for the production of caramel syrup began operating.

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October Revolution

The modern history of the plant began with the victory of the October Revolution. After the end of the Civil War, the plant was restored and entered the fifth group Administration for the food industry, which included two more yeast and brewery plants, two mills. Despite the hard times, the plant successfully coped with the tasks and produced 144 mashes per year with 30 poods of yeast, i.e. 69.12 tons of yeast and 134,640 decaliters of alcohol. Year after year the plant expanded, its machine room was updated, new Alfa Laval separators, pumps and equipment appeared. By 1933, 166 people worked at the plant, gross output reached 4091 thousand rubles, fixed assets amounted to 1577 thousand rubles. The plant produced 2600 tons of yeast and 3095 tons of molasses per year

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Minsk Yeast Wine Plant

By the Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the BSSR dated 20.10.1959 No. 1255-r, the yeast-molasses plant "Krasnaya Zarya" was reorganized into the Minsk Yeast-Wine Plant. By 1965, yeast production amounted to about 8 thousand tons per year. By the Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the BSSR dated 22.07.1964 No. 947-r, the Minsk Yeast-molasses Plant was separated from the Minsk Yeast-Wine Plant. In 1970, the molasses shop was liquidated, and the plant began to specialize exclusively in the production of yeast.
Between 1964 and 1975, two yeast factories in the republic were merged into a single enterprise – the Minsk Yeast Plant with a branch in the city of Oshmyany in the Grodno region – the Oshmyany Yeast Plant, founded in 1881 by the merchant Strugach.

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1976-1996 years

By order of the Ministry of Food Industry of the BSSR dated 06.04.1976 No. 86, the Minsk Yeast Molasses Plant was reorganized into the Minsk Yeast Plant. At the same time, the production was re-equipped and the production facilities were reconstructed: wooden sharpening vats were eliminated, and yeast growing apparatuses made of ferrous metal were replaced with stainless steel apparatuses. By 1985, the plant produced about 20 thousand tons of yeast per year, and by 1990 - about 22 thousand tons. By the order of the Ministry of State Property of the Republic of Belarus dated 30.12.1995 No. 383, the Minsk Yeast Plant was transformed into an open joint-stock company "Yeast Plant" and registered by the decision of the Minsk City Executive Committee No. 677 on September 2, 1996 (re-registered by the decision of 10.08.2000 No. 913).

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Modern development

Based on rich experience and maintaining good traditions, the plant’s team constantly increases the level of technical equipment of the main production and technological equipment, the degree of automation and mechanization of labor, and improves the mechanism of technological processes. New equipment is being introduced at the enterprise, reconstruction is being carried out in certain areas of production, and the vehicle fleet is being updated.