bti MAXUFACTUKES OF RUSSIA. 



Korcbevsk and Ezlievsk aad the towns of Ostashkov and Torjok. Potapenko's tannery 

 is one of the largest ; it is situated in the Korchevsk district, was founded in 1879 ; 

 its yearly production amounts to 655,000 roubles, possesses one 4 horse power steam 

 engine and employs 210 men, turning out over 60,000 hides per annum. The tirm 

 of Saviue has 13 tanneries owned by different individuals in the town of Ostashkov; 

 the yearly production of each of these does not exceed 100,000 roubles, excepting that 

 belonging to Theodore Savine. founded in 1740 and famed for its Russia leather dressing. 

 It possesses 3 steam engines generating altogetlier 52 horse power and employing 473 

 hands; its yearly production amounts to 116,000 hides valued at 558,000 roubles. 



The governments composing the eastern and south-eastern region, and partic- 

 ularly those of Viatka. Perm, Kazan, Samara and Saratov, form important centres 

 of the leather trade, both as regards the number of tanneries and their total yearly 

 production. The separate output of each tannery in tliis region is however small 

 and the large total is made up of the production of the numerous small tanneries. 

 The mean yearly output of the tanneries of Viatka does not exceed 43,000 roubles, 

 that of the government of Perm being only 11,000, w^hilst the yearly average pro- 

 duction of the Saratov tanneries is as small as 4,700 roubles, the total number being 

 117. so that the whole government has a production of 554,000 roubles. The govern- 

 ment of Viatka ranks first in importance, having 77 tanneries employing 1,780 men, 

 the total production being 3,298,000 roubles. The largest works are in the town of 

 Viatka, Slobodsk and Nolinsk. 



The principal governments of the southern region are those of Kiev, Cherni- 

 gov and Kherson ; the number of tanneries and the production of the first two being 

 almost equal, namely: in the first. 58 tanneries, with a production of 1,129,000 rou- 

 bles, in the second, 62 tanneries, vnth a production of 1,386,000 roubles. In the 

 government of Kiev the chief centres are the towns of Kiev, Berdichev and Smela. 

 The district of Berdichev contains Shlenker's large tannery established in 1875: it 

 has 2 steam engines generating 75 horse power; its yearly production amounts to 

 33,300 hides valued at 320,000 roubles and employs 127 men. A small hospital is 

 attached to the works of Kobets's tannery in the neighbourhood of Kiev ; it is conside- 

 rably smaller, its yearly production being only 100,000 roubles ; it was founded in 

 1845, has a 20 horse steam engine and employs 24 men; it turns out 16,500 hides 

 per annum. Small tanneries with a production from 3,000 to 25,000 roubles pre- 

 dominate in the government of Chernigov. There are 16 tanneries in the govern- 

 ment of Kherson, employing 475 hands and having a total production of 1,070,000 

 roubles ; they are principally situated in tlie town of Odessa, the principal being 

 Paraskev's, founded in 1858; it has 2 steam engines of 30 horse power, turns out 

 21,500 hides valued at 400,000 roubles and employs 117 men. Koadzaki's tannery 

 has two steam engines and employs 38 men; the yearly production is 362,000 

 roubles or 36,200 hides. The Olviopolsk Tanning Co. in the district of Eliza- 

 vetgrad was established in 1869 ; its production amounts to 180,000 roubles or 

 12,000 hides; it has one steam engine and employs 70 men. Most of the tanneries 

 in the government of the western region are small excepting Malkiel's works in the 

 Rejitsk district of the government of Vitebsk. This tannery was established in 1842 ; 

 it has one 18 horse steam engine and 320 vats; its production amounts to 58.000 

 boot sole and half-tanned hides. 



