Vase from the Neman factory, uniquely preserved. Sulfide glass. Art Deco, 1920 The history of the enterprise began with a small guta of the local landowner Z. Lensky, on which beer bottles were blown and which was rented by the chief engineer of the famous Dyadkovsky plant V. Kraevsky and the head of the art workshop Yu. Stolle who came to Berezovka. Having built a second plant nearby and purchased a third, they founded their own company, Neman. The company was constantly improving and expanding the range of products, which, along with high quality, made the Neman brand prestigious and recognizable. The history of the plant began in 1883, when landowner Zenon Lensky built a glass factory for the production of beer bottles and cans on his estate Zaenchitsy, Lida district. Already in 1891, he leased the guta to the Czechs - the chief engineer of the Dyadkovo glass factory, Wilhelm Kraevsky, and the head of the factory's art workshop, the painter Julius Stolle. Enterprising Czechs are expanding production, starting to produce vases and jardinières, producing lamp glass, and starting to brew crystal. After 8 years, the partners acquired a plant in Berezovka, which became the parent enterprise of the Kraevsky and Stolle company and was called the Neman Crystal Factory. At the beginning of the First World War, the plant began producing glass insulators for the needs of the Russian army, which made it possible to provide the enterprise with work. However, in 1915, retreating, Russian troops set fire to glass factories with warehouses of finished products; the owners managed to take out only the most valuable equipment. Under the terms of the Treaty of Riga concluded in 1921, part of Belarus, where glass factories were located, goes to Poland. Already by the mid-1920s, the production of glass products at Neman resumed. Stolle and his sons decide to focus on mass-produced pressed glass - inexpensive to produce and available to customers. Particularly popular are items in the style of Art Deco, which has become fashionable, made of thick-walled glass, for example, vases repeating models from well-known companies. By the mid-30s, Neman became one of the most famous Polish manufacturers of glassware; the company has representative offices in Vienna, London, New York, and actively exports products to the USA, Canada, France, Great Britain, the Middle and Far East. nnIn 1939, the territory where the plant is located became part of the BSSR, and the owners of the plant emigrated to Poland. And the products of "Neman" become a role model for Soviet glass factories. You can read endlessly about this factory. The Czechs, Poles, and Belarusians consider it to be my asset.