came mainly from abroad, while the workers mostly came from Russia. At this time, the agricultural industry in the western Ukraine was also expanding rapidly, particularly sugar production and grain exports [...] world’s second passenger jet, was built in Charkiv in 1955; today it may be seen in the Kyiv Aviation Museum. Soon, the Ukraine was producing around half of all the USSR’s tanks and missiles, making the country
the local market was flooded with machine-woven fabrics, ruining the centuries-old Indian textile industry. Instead of sugar and coffee as consumer goods, European entrepreneurs now imported huge quantities [...] landboreformer (danmarkshistorien. Aarhus Universitet) The transatlantic slave trade (Swiss National Museum) English Slave Trading and Colonialism (Encyclopedia Britannica) The Cotton Economy and Slavery (YouTube) [...] blutige Geschichte der Baumwolle (fluter. L. Förnbacher) Slavery and Remembrance - A Guide to Sites, Museums and Memory (Unesco) Mitteleuropa und der transatlantische Sklavenhandel: eine lange Geschichte (
since 1929, the population grew and new food processing and light industry enterprises were established. During the Second World War, industry grew because Moscow moved factories from contested western territories [...] internationally for manned flights into space. The Soviet government also invested massively in heavy industry - but as was so often the case, at the expense of the light and food industries, so that Kazakhstan [...] machine guns as well as electronic controls and biological weapons. At the beginning of the 1970s, industry was probably the dominant feature in the Kazakh economy. In 1991, the country became independent
regional identity ”Unwanted heritage” – baseline, reasons, problems, challenges, goals The role of industry in creating the image of the region. Case study of Upper Silesia throughout history The industrial [...] reuse and popularisation of post-industrial sites in Europe for cultural and tourism purposes, e.g. museums: permanent and temporary exhibitions (presentation), event venues (entertainment), interpretation
between Baku and Batumi, which commenced operation in 1907. Today, a museum in Batumi documents the history of the petroleum industry. At the same time, both the Czar of Russia and the German steel group [...] developed from an agricultural trade to an industry, supported by the Caucasian Institute for Silkworm Breeding, founded in Tbilisi in 1887. Today, a museum in the old institute building recalls Georgia’s
metropolis, Robert and Ludvig Nobel erected the imposing Villa Petrolea, which today houses an oil industrymuseum. Like their better-known brother Alfred, the Nobels were both entrepreneurs and inventors: they [...] Related Links WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Azerbaijan WIKIPEDIA: Petroleum industry in Azerbaijan History of development of oil industry World Atlas: The biggest industries in Azerbaijan Neft Daşları. Oil platform [...] Reservoir in 1948 led to the founding of the city of the same name, which became a centre of light industry, primarily the production of construction materials and textiles. North of Baku, with its innumerable
in Yerevan developed into one of the largest European producers of aluminium foil. By the 1930s, industry was already generating most of Armenia's economic output. From the 1950s onwards, electrical engineering [...] Mergelian. The innovative computer families "Rasdan-2" and "Nairi" were developed there in the 1960s. The Museum of Science and Technology in Yerevan documents these pioneering achievements. In order to remedy
Today, the caverns which mining created serve as a warehouse for wine merchants and a viticulture museum. In 1812, the under-developed land passed from the Ottomans to the Russian tsars, who called it [...] Soviet republics, the emphasis was on the mechanisation of agriculture and the expansion of the food industry. Sugar factories, dairies and canning plants were built, and thanks to new, large-scale wine presses [...] well as factories for textiles and electrical appliances were built in the larger cities. Heavy industry was concentrated east of the Dniester: since 1954, a hydroelectric power plant has been generating
hydroelectric power plant was built in Prizren, which has since been converted into an electricity museum. A British company invested in the extraction of lead, zinc and other raw materials in the Trepça [...] the 1960s. In accordance with socialist economic doctrine, investments flowed mainly into heavy industry: the government intensified the mining of the large lignite deposits, and the electricity generated [...] addition, Kosovo itself had hardly any plants for the processing of its raw materials, so that the industry collapsed after the disintegration of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992. At the same
son Pau Xavier founded Andorra’s first, albeit short-lived, museum in Ordino in 1903. Tobacco farming emerged as a further important industry at the end of the 17th century, not least on account of the [...] opened in the 1840s and closed in 1876 when the Andorran iron mines ceased production , is today a museum. The Areny family has also been active in the iron business since the 17th century. The family estate [...] the profits to be made by smuggling cigarettes into Spain. The museum housed in the tobacco factory founded by the Reig family, which operated from 1903 to 1957, testifies to this history. It is characteristic
Haas commissioned a Vienna museum director to create designs, and women weavers in Bosnia wove them into carpets that were subsequently marketed, and even exhibited in museums, as “traditional Bosnian” [...] heavy industry. Bosnia in particular profited from President Tito’s break with the Soviet Union in 1948: relatively far from the nation’s borders, it was considered a safe location for industry. Consequently [...] continued the centuries old production of salt near Tuzla, where today this history is preserved by a museum, and expanded the first foundry near Priyedor, which also dates back to pre-Christian times. Trade
well into the 20th century. Nor could Montenegro profit from the flourishing sea trade, to which the museum in the port city of Kotor bears testimony, as the Adriatic coast was divided between Venice and the [...] relocated to Podgorica (then “Titograd”) and the central government embarked on a programme of heavy industry expansion on the Soviet model. Mining of bauxite, the country’s most important raw material, began [...] the KAP aluminium plant was laid in Podgorica in 1968. In Nikšić, soon celebrated as the “city of industry, steel and beer”, a greenfield steel works was erected which grew to become Montenegro’s largest
LVR Industrial Museum Euskirchen (D). Müller Textile Works LVR Industrial Museum Friedrichshafen (D). Zeppelin Museum Furtwangen (D). German Clock Museum Gent (B). MIAT Museum about Industry, Labour and Textile [...] Catalonian Museum of Science and Industry Tychy (PL). Tyskie Brewery Museum Częstochwa (PL). Museum of the Production of Matches Tyssedal (N). Norwegian Museum of Hydro Power and Industry Völklingen (D) [...] (GB). Open Air Museum Bergisch Gladbach (D). Old Dombach Paper Mill LVR Industrial Museum Beringen (B) be Mine Flamish Mining Museum Berlin (D). German Technical Museum Birmingham (GB). Museum of the Jewellery
exist until to this day. But there are also differences. The traditional hubs of the industry meanwhile host museums devoted to cutlery, whereas new players such as Portugal did not (yet) enter this level [...] In addition, hardly any other industry boasts the same diversity of manufacturing conditions, which is due to the abundance of textile samples that still shapes the industry and enables even smaller and [...] remains of the cutlery industry have been preserved. The Belgian Gembloux was confronted with similar issues. On the contrary, Albacete, focal point of the Spanish cutlery industry, as well as Portugal have
government subsidies, the port industry proved to be a chronic loss-maker and new sectors were developed, particularly in the areas of electronics and pharmaceuticals. However, industry accounts for only a small [...] it for a major role in naval matters in particular. For several centuries, a profitable textile industry also developed on the basis of cotton, which the Arabs brought to Malta in the 9th century. The [...] the Order’s buildings and added facilities such as a bakery for hardtack – today the Malta Maritime Museum – and several drydocks. With the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, Malta also became important as
predominated. The representative power plant went into operation there in 1902; this building houses the Museum of Energy and Technology today. After Lithuania became independent of Russia in 1918, the government [...] Klaipėda and Telšiai. However, the capital needed to establish larger enterprises, such as heavy industry, was lacking. Food and textile production remained dominant, followed by metal and wood processing
exports collapsed in the 1930s, the industry suffered a severe crisis that lasted until the demand for fish exploded during World War II. The second pillar of Iceland’s industry is based on the utilisation of
textile industry there starting in 1820 – with all the adverse side effects: exploitation of workers and dramatic environmental pollution. At about the same time, a major centre of heavy industry emerged [...] became difficult to sell. On the whole though, the chemical industry of the region remained on a relatively modest level. Once state-sponsored industry had set the process in motion, Silesian landowners became [...] became the primary financiers for the expansion of heavy industry. Astonishingly, the industrialisation of the mixed Polish-German population of Upper Silesia did not trigger a wave of nationalism as it did
Anatolia to its network. Although the first Turkish power station – today the santral istanbul energy museum – was established in Istanbul under the Ottomans, the new era saw the construction of numerous power [...] hydroelectric plants. After the Great Depression of 1929, the government pushed the establishment of industry. Following the example of the Soviet Union, the government formulated five-year plans and founded [...] the pension fund of the Turkish military, constituted the third pillar of the Turkish automotive industry with the licensed manufacture of Renaults. However, the crisis-prone economy was unable to establish
