PRESENT-DAY

In 1995 the Caspian caviar-balyk industrial association was bought and reorganized in the Joint-stock company "Russian caviar" (JSC "Russian caviar"). For today the authorized capital of the company makes 167030 roubles, which is shared into 167030 ordinary actions distributed between 576 shareholders, in the basic, members of the labour collective.

JSC "Russian caviar" is one of few enterprises in the Russian Federation, which during the economic reforms and financial shocks, has not lost its industrial potential and the highly skilled staff. On any, objective and subjective reasons influencing on the development of the market economy in the country, the company with the historical past has managed to keep the status and the prestige among the competing Russian and the world fish-manufacturing enterprises and firms.

So, sharp decrease in last ten - fifteen years of the population of the Caspian sturgeon fishes and, as a consequence of it, the reduction of fishing of valuable breeds of fishes has resulted in the reduction of volumes of processing fish and manufacturing of caviar. If in 1983, 156 thousand centners îf sturgeon fish was processed , 1365 tonns of caviar was produced, from which about 200 tonns made the export, in 1997 the limit has given to the enterprise only 371 tonns of fish, the material - 300 tonns, only 74 tonns of caviar was issued. In the conditions the management of the enterprise takes a rate on the expansion of the assortment of the let out production, the development of new technologies and the improvement of the production.

Now the company, keeping and improving caviar manufacturing, holds the basic direction for amplified processing and the realization of the fish goods from fishes of thick net breeds. Since 1995, canning and fillet sites have been created, a mooring and site of fine ðàñking have been built, the refrigerator with the capacity of 1500 tons has been entered into the operation, three refrigerator machines for delivery of the production all over Russia have been purchased. In the caviar shop the unique equipment for dozing of caviar in glass tins and packing them under vacuum is established, which was made in Italy and France by the order of the joint-stock company in the single copies.

Prior to the beginning the last year the enterprise carried out, basically, fish manufacturing, buying raw material at fishermen, basically, fishing collective farms, that created the certain economic and financial problems. In 1999 there was a radical reorganization of the manufacture.

Now at the enterprise the closed production cycle is created, that is, having in the order two sites, "Russian caviar" by own forces carries out production of fish in the delta of the river Volga, its deep processing and realization. At last the annual assembly of the shareholders that takes place in April, 7, 2000, the decision on entering into the Charter of the company in the section " the Basic kinds of the activity " one more direction was accepted: the industrial fishery in the part of the production of fish.

The structure of the JSC "Russian caviar" includes three producing departments.

1. Balyk shop consisting of:

• Reception sites of the alive cooled fish

• Refrigerators with two freezing chambers (-Ç5 Ñ) the capacity of 40 tons per day each and left-luggage offices (-18-25Ñ) with the capacity of 1500 tons

• fish manufacturing branch

• salting branch

• Site of smoking and drying of fish

• Site of fine ðàñking

• Ice-producing plant on manufacturing the artificial ice

2. Caviar shop consisting of:

• Site for the preparation of caviar of thick net fishes

• Site for the preparation of caviar of sturgeon fishes

• Canning branch

• Site for the preparation of frozen fillet of thick net and sturgeon fishes

3. Receiving-transporting shop consisting of

• RTS-225 (Receiving-transporting ships for the transportation of the cooled fish and alive fish in openings)

• Column;

• floating plants

• Auxiliary shios

The uninterrupted work of the producing departments is provided by the auxiliary sites:

- Repairing-mechanical;

- Repairing-building;

- Site of energy providing