NIZHNY NOVGOROD CHAMPAGNE WINES DISTILLERY Open Joint-Stock Company

ul. Poltavskaya, 30 Nizhny Novgorod, 603089, Russia. Phone: 8312 354330 Tel/Fax: 8312 356260

General Director:
Pavel Sokhan

The distillery founded in 1940 was the first in the USSR equipped with home-made acrophores developed by Prof. A. Frolov-Bagreyev with champagne production according to the procedure developed by Prof. G. Agabalyanz. The distillery was also the first testing ground for the industrial continuous champagne wines production in the world practice. Traditionally the distillery wines are distinguished over years by their high quality which were honoured by numerous diplomas and medals awarded to the wine-makers at the international wine competitions:
Tbilisy 1965 — Gold medal;
Sophya 1966 — Gold and Silver medals;
Budapest 1966, 1989 — Gold medals;
Bratislava 1971, 1989 — Gold and Silver medals.

In March 1993 the distillery was reorganised in AOOT Nizhny Novgorod Champagne Wines Distillery, an open joint-stock company. The traditions rooted in the past are successfully maintained by the company wine-makers of today.

The consumers display a steady demand for Russkoye Zolotoye champagne, made as per advanced technology of continuous procedure in the environment of superhigh concentrated yeast.

The company products: Russkoye Zolotoye, brut, dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet, sweet.

In 1995 using the new original technologies the distillery made new brands of champagne:
Dvoryanskoye, Knyaz Lev Galizin. The company output is about 13m bottles of champagne wines p.a., including 1m bottles made for exports. In addition to the champagne the distillery produces sparkling wines: Goubernator and Rozovy Zhemtchug, vodka: Zolotoy Koren, Nizhny Novgorod, Brusnitchnaya, and strong drinks: Sudarushka, Burlatzky and others.

The distillery is being modernized with installation of new bottling lines and other equipment. There is an opportunity to diversify : to set up a motor-vehicle market, a petrol filling station, a parking lot within the distillery own premises.

The company is a member of the Nizhny Novgorod Chamber of Commerce and Industry.