Grodno Azot Enterprise: first steps

The article is devoted to the history of the creation of one of the leading enterprises of the petrochemical complex of the Soviet Union and the BSSR, and then Belarus — the Gorodno Azot Association. The authors chose an unusual angle of the problem study, having considered the first steps in the life of this now famous enterprise. Based on previously unused documents from the Grodno Regional Archive, they traced the first years of the enterprise's construction, the difficulties it experienced, indicating the great and regular attention of the decision-making bodies to the process of plant construction and the principles of innovation that were laid down in its work, and later allowed it, constantly improving, to become the one on which the economy of modern Belarus largely relies