Production of alcohol and vodka in the Irkutsk region in the 60s. XIX - early XX century
The private alcohol plants began to open in the Eastern Siberia, after having been adopted the excise system in 1863. All the alcohol plants of the Baikal region were located in the towns and were of minor importance than the distilleries. Out of date technologies of the purification of raw spirits (cold refinement) and the lack of rectifying equipments were not allowed to manufacture the product of high quality. The population preferred to use purified vine of the distilleries or more expensive alcohol import. Low demand for the alcohol product by the 1880-s caused the decreased output and the reduced number of plants. By the beginning of the 20th century the alcohol plants had been in a great depression.