1837 - The Golovchino Sugar Plant was built. It was located between the Round Building and the Lozovaya River and operated on peat. Despite the dominance of feudalism with its natural economy, backward technology, and three-field system in the early 19th century, individual landowners increasingly attempted to use machines and improve crop rotations in their farms to increase profitability. The owner of Golovchino, Khrovat, already had a threshing machine in 1810, powered by horses or a pair of oxen. In a day, this machine, operated by 12 people and a pair of oxen, threshed 90 kopecks of grain (in a kopeck, there were 60 sheaves), replacing the manual labor of 45 people.

In the first decades, until the abolition of serfdom, the plant was a typical manufactory estate, served by forced labor of serf peasants. The first plants were primitive, part of the so-called "fire system." They manually grated the beets and then manually squeezed the juice. The foamy, blackened juice was sprinkled with lime, and then it was boiled in open cauldrons. The juice was passed through a bone filter, after burning the bones in a bone-burning room. The boiled-down juice was poured into barrels, where it finally solidified. That's why the packaging was called barrel-shaped until recently. It took about a month to produce one barrel of sugar in this makeshift production. According to stories, people from the entire district came to see the first barrel of sugar in Golovchino. It was considered a miracle because before that, sugar was only imported from abroad.

1858 - The second life of the plant began; it was rebuilt (now the Old Village of the plant), on a capitalist basis with hired workers and steam engines. In the 1860s, a lime-burning furnace was built to obtain lime and saturation gas. This was a time when, due to technological improvements, the Russian sugar beet industry began to export sugar abroad. According to the "Yearbook of the Sugar Industry," the Golovchino plant in the 1871-72 season had 4 steam engines with a total power of about 40 horsepower and 4 hydraulic presses. During the season in 122 working days, 29,280 tens of berkovets (berkovets is an old Russian weight measure equal to 10 poods) were processed, producing 17,568 poods (a pood is equal to 16.38 kg) of sugar sand. Therefore, the sugar yield was 5.6%.

In 1885, the plant underwent a new reconstruction: diffusion was introduced instead of presses, and new boilers were installed. In the mentioned "Yearbook" for 1888-89 about the Golovchino plant, it is stated that 1456 dessiatins were sown with sugar beets, of which 105 dessiatins were factory-owned, and 400 dessiatins were plantation (peasant-owned). The yield was 145.5 berkovets (223 kg per hectare). The plant processed 2616 tons of beets per day. The use of diffusion instead of presses significantly increased the sugar yield from beets. Over 60 years, from the 1830s to the 1890s, the sugar yield increased by 7.5 times. If in the 1860s one worker produced 33 poods of sugar per season, by the 1880s it was already 223 poods. Khrovat leased his plant to the "Rotermund and Weiss" Partnership. The administration and almost all specialists were foreigners. Of the 10 administrative and technical staff, 8 were Germans: director-manager G.K. Raabe, plant director F.K. Bode, chemist Zeifert, mechanic Belin, and others.

After the childless N.I. Khrovat's death, his heirs sold the sugar plant, along with the estate (12 thousand dessiatins of land), to Count M.P. Tolstoy for 1.4 million rubles in 1890. Hence, among the locals, the legend spread that Tolstoy's pair of oxen cost him 5 kopecks. Volkov, the headman of the Golovchino volost, with whose assistance the deal was made, bought a farm near Dorogoshch for himself with the bribe he received.

1890 - After the childless N.I. Khrovat's death, his heirs sold the sugar plant, along with the estate (12 thousand dessiatins of land), to Count M.P. Tolstoy for 1.4 million rubles. He owned the plant until the October Revolution (1917).

1919 - Director of the plant M.I. Matusiak.

In 1922, in the Golovchino volost, there were 4,290 households with 17,441 dessiatins of arable land. Of this number, 6,430 dessiatins, i.e., 36%, were nationalized for the sugar plant. After the nationalization of land, state farms became state enterprises. By 1925, almost all the land had passed into peasant use.

1923 - V.F. Martakov was appointed as the director of the plant, transferred to Golovchino from the Rzhev plant.

October 1, 1923. The sugar plant was renamed "Bolshevik."

1925 - V.V. Braun was appointed as the director of the plant.

1946 - The sugar plant was led by P.A. Kholoptsev, and after him, I.A. Vasilishin.

1948 - By the decision of the Moscow City Executive Committee, a plot of 242 hectares of state farm land was allocated for the construction of the plant. (During the war, the plant was completely destroyed.)

On December 31, 1951, the "Bolshevik" sugar combine began sugar processing. The question of building a new sugar plant had long been pressing. Even before the war, although the plant's capacity reached 7200 tons of beets per day, it could not satisfy the increased raw material base. In 1931, the factory party bureau discussed the question of choosing a location for the new plant. According to one option, the plant was supposed to be built on the other side of the pond. However, the main drawback of this option was that it would cost at least 1 million rubles to clean the factory pond. According to another option, the plant was supposed to be built near Krasivo, where there was a convenient construction site, but the drawback was the increase in the distance from the Grayvoronsky district and additional expenses for the construction of a residential settlement. All this led to a stop at the first option. However, before the war, construction of the plant did not begin.

During the war, the plant was completely destroyed. The decision to restore the "Bolshevik" sugar plant was made by the Ministry of Food Industry of the USSR in April 1946. The plant's capacity was determined based on the raw material resources of the Grayvoronsky and Borisovsky districts, which amounted to 1312 thousand tons of beets. Based on the plant's operating duration of 130 days, its capacity was 10 thousand centners. On August 14, 1948, by the decision of the Moscow City Executive Committee, a plot of 242 hectares of state farm land was allocated for the construction of the plant.

Almost all the work was done manually. The only mechanism, a locomobile, barely provided the operation of the sawmill and the mortar mixer. The lifting of bricks, mortar, and materials to height was done using ladders and stretchers. A huge amount of bricks was required, and all the surrounding plants worked for the Golovchino construction: hot bricks came from the Grayvoron plant, reconstructed by the Golovchino residents themselves, Borisov, Gotnyansky, and Zolochivsky plants. Even the bricks from the dismantled church in Grayvoron were brought here. Equipment came from Germany, boiler and power equipment from Belgium and Sweden. Crates with equipment lined up in three rows from the station to the village.

The construction lasted for 4 years, and on December 31, 1951, it was reported to the Minister of the Food Industry of the USSR Mikoyan A.I. that the "Bolshevik" sugar plant had started sugar processing.

From 1952 to 1961, the sugar combine was led by Batrachenko P.I.

Since 1961, the Bolshevik sugar combine has been divided into a sugar plant and a state farm.

From 1961 to 1969, the sugar plant "Bolshevik" was headed by Batrachenko P.I.

From 1969 to 1979, the director of the sugar plant was Govenko A.I.

From 1979 to 1984, the director of the sugar plant was Tatarikov N.I.

In 1984, Gladkov N.T. became the director of the sugar plant.

From 1984 to 1989, the director of the sugar plant was Nazarenko G.A.

From 1989 to 1992, the director of the sugar plant was Emets V.G.

From 1992 to 1994, the director of the sugar plant was Batyrev N.P.

From 1994 to 1995, the director of the sugar plant was Posokhov I.M.

From 1995 to 1998, the director of the sugar plant was Oleynik I.I.

In August 1998, an interim manager Karpinsky V.D. was appointed at the sugar plant.

From December 1, 1999, the "Bolshevik" sugar plant became part of the "Razgulyai" group of companies.

Materials are taken from the book "History of the village of Golovchino" by the historian-ethnographer Ryazanov Timofey Yakovlevich, which is kept in the Golovchino secondary school with in-depth study of certain subjects.