Industrial Traditions

Yalutorovsk is well known far outside Siberia as a town with well developed food industry. Yalutorovski district was regarded as a leading Siberian province as to the number of water and wind mills.

It is known that in the middle of the XIX-th century flour was distributed from Yalutorovsk to Perm, Vyatka, and Kazan. Yalutorovsk harvest was also imported to western countries. In 1911 a steam mill was built, which was the first industrial enterprise in the town. The mill was equipped with up-to-date facilities that allowed up to 70 tons of high quality flour to get processed per day.

Yalutorovsk was also famous for its butter. Initially butter was hand-made in small portions. At the end of the XIXth century commercial production of butter was started in Yalutorovsk. Butter products of unique quality enjoyed great popularity in Europe. At the beginning of the XXth century butter export to England amounted to 1800 poods. A joint Danish-Swedish venture was organized in Yalutorovsk on wholesale deliveries of butter. The well-known ethnographer Nikolai Yadrintsev wrote: ‘Few people know that Turk receives butter from Siberia, a hotel in London is lighted by candles made out of Siberian grease, the boots worn by Germans are made of Siberian leather’.