Kaluga, Lenin St., 18

The cultural heritage site of regional significance “Residential building, 1900-1903”, which is part of the cultural heritage site of regional significance “Ensemble of the state wine warehouse and factory, 1900-1903, 1928”,

Description:
On the regular plan of Kaluga in 1778, the place where the construction of a state wine warehouse was later allocated was located outside the city limits, near the northern border of the Yamskaya Sloboda. During the 19th century, this area belonged to the city and was not built up. To the north of the warehouse area (to the railway station), the development of Yamskaya Street began in the last third of the 19th century, mainly with private wooden buildings. To the north of the warehouse area (to the railway station), the development of Yamskaya Street began in the last third of the 19th century, mainly with private wooden buildings.
There is no information about the author of the project for the Kaluga state wine warehouse. There is an opinion in the literature that the design of warehouses for the provinces of central and southern Russia was typical: indeed, in photographs from the early 20th century, wine warehouses built in Kaluga, Tambov, Ryazan, Ryazhsk, Yaroslavl, Rostov-on-Don look identical (at least their main buildings). The main warehouse buildings built in Tula and Nizhny Novgorod look very similar. There is a version that the author of such a project was a St. Petersburg specialist in industrial construction, civil engineer Vladimir Nikolaevich Pyasetsky (1868 – after 1934).
The construction of the wine warehouse was carried out simultaneously with the construction of the Syzran-Vyazemskaya railway station, located in the northern part of today’s Lenin Street, which is probably why the construction of the warehouse was supervised by a railway engineer, head of the 2nd section of the SVZhD track service Iosif Efremovich Lyon (1854 – 1926)
During the First World War, one of the warehouse buildings housed the 6th hospital of the All-Russian Zemsky Union.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and during the occupation of Kaluga, the plant did not stop working. In 1942, after the liberation of the city, the production of Molotov cocktails began. The enterprise came under the control of the Tula Alcohol and Vodka Industry Trust (Tulaspirtotrest) of the Main Directorate of the Alcohol and Vodka Industry of the People’s Commissariat of the Food Industry of the USSR11.
With the end of the war, in 1945, the Kaluga Liquor and Vodka Plant was reassigned to the Moscow Liquor and Vodka Trust (Moslikervodtrest) as part of the Main Directorate of the Vodka and Liquor Industry (Glavlikervodka) of the People’s Commissariat of the Food Industry. With the renaming of the People’s Commissariats into ministries in 1946, the plant was subordinated to the Ministry of the Flavor Industry of the USSR (in 1948 it was renamed the Ministry of the Food Industry). With the formation of the economic councils, the plant was transferred to the Kaluga Regional Council of National Economy, and in 1965 to the Ministry of Food Industry of the USSR.
At the end of 1992, the enterprise, together with the Ostrozhensky distillery (a supplier of raw materials since the 1960s, located in the Dzerzhinsky district of the Kaluga region), was privatized and named OJSC Kristall.
In 2010, the company became part of the Crystal industrial and trade group, and in the same year, its bankruptcy was declared. In May 2018, the dismantling of the buildings located in the courtyard of the enterprise began, including the demolition of a two-story building from the early 20th century, located to the west of the main warehouse building.

Completed works:
– roof repair;
– facade repair; (2020)