Belaya Dacha

Belaya Dacha Group combines several activities: growing, processing and producing ready-to-eat vegetables and salads, as well as developing and constructing commercial and residential properties.

Belaya Dacha is the No. 1 brand in the market for fresh, ready-to-eat salads. Today, the Group owns three processing plants in the Moscow and Novosibirsk regions and the Republic of Tatarstan. Belaya Dacha includes Russia’s only unique robotic greenhouse complex for growing mini-salads and tomatoes, located in the Stavropol Territory. The AgroNero salad farming school was set up in the Yaroslavl Region. In addition to the development of the agricultural sector, Belaya Dacha Group is active in real estate.

3 000

Employees

2000 Ha

Оf fields and greenhouses

$1 billion

In the investment portfolio

540 000 m²

Total area of facilities

History

A white neat house with columns, located in the south-east of Moscow, is reflected in the clear waters of an artificial pond, as it was many decades ago. It was in these walls, erected back in the time of Empress Catherine II, that the history of the "Belaya Dacha" began (“Belaya” in literal translation from Russian is ‘white’).

The famous white house was built by Nikolai Yakovlevich Arshenevsky, a well–known representative of the governor's dynasty, a former civil governor of Smolensk, and then Astrakhan. After retiring, Arshenevsky acquired a small village Pokrovka, on the territory of which a boyar's dacha with artificial ponds grew up. Subsequently, in this house, which gave the name of the agrofirm, the board of the first artel was located, then the office of the state farm. Nowadays, it is the residence of the Belaya Dacha museum.

1918

A small agricultural artel named Trud (literally: Labour) was founded on the premises of the former Belaya Dacha manor. This event marked the start of the Belaya Dacha Group’s history.

1918

1928

In 1928, the artel was reorganised into the state farm of the Ukhtomsky Plant.

1928

1940

In the postwar years, it saw:

the development of meat production;
the development of an advanced technology for accelerated pork production;
the implementation of automated feeding.

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1940

1946

Belaya Dacha.

On 19 September 1946, the government decreed the creation of the state farm Belaya Dacha.

1946

1953

Belaya Dacha state farm workers.

1953

1954

Latest methods.

The farm became a testbed for the latest methods of keeping and fattening cattle.

1954

1955

In 1955, a 12-hectare greenhouse complex, the largest in the country, was built at the state farm Belaya Dacha.

1955

1956

The plant became a mother lode of highly skilled professionals and a testbed for advanced technologies.

1956

1957

Celebratory performance honouring Great Victory.

The front row consists of war veterans, Heroes of Socialist Labour.

1957

Starting in 1957, the use of feeding supplies has been logged at the farms on a daily basis.

Pictured is team leader T. Potapova.

1957

1958

The cleanup day is over. The assignment has been completed impeccably. The participants included secretaries Rusanov, Kpochkov, Borisenkov, chairman of the Regional Committee of People’s Control Pestov, head of the department at the Communist Party’s Moscow Committee state farm Naberezhnev, first secretary of the Lyubertsy Town Committee of the Communist Party Kalimanov and others.

1958

The country’s first bio-laboratory, which pioneered the abandonment of pesticides in vegetable production.

1958

Tying cucumber plants in the greenhouse.

1958

1959

sporting events;
cross-country skiing;
fairs;
weekend holidays, etc.

All this appealed to all residents of the state farm village.

Russian Winter Festival.

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1959

1962

Hero of Socialist Labour, laureate of two Orders of Lenin, the second-class Order of the Patriotic War, director of the state farm Mikhail Davydov among greenhouse workers.

1962

1963

Chief zootechnician A. Slavin conducts zootechnical training with the pig feeders.

1963

1964

21 January 1964.

First secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Fidel Castro on the day of his visit to the state farm Belaya Dacha.

1964

1965

Local landscape artist, People’s Artist of the USSR F. Antyukhin.

1965

1970

The state farm was visited by senior leaders of the Japanese trade unions. Pictured is chief zootechnician A. Slavin, receiving the delegation.

1970

1971

A group of school students explores the products of the plant production shop.

1971

1972

Dmitry Popov, PhD in agriculture, laureate of two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour, director of the state farm Belaya Dacha since 1972.

1972

1977

Departments nos. 2 and 3.

July 1977 saw the commissioning of the first department of the newly constructed plant.

Between July and December 1977, 6,000 tonnes of vegetables were sold to the state.

At the same time, the construction of the second unit, which was commissioned in 1978, was in full swing.

1977

1978

Products of the new greenhouse plant.

Harvesting zucchinis in the field.

1978

1980

Viktor Semeyonov in the livestock shop.1980

Harvesting.

1980

1985

A visit to the first salad line by the Minister of Agriculture of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

1985

2003

Trainees of the equestrian complex Belaya Dacha 2000.

Making the largest green salad.

2003

Belaya Dacha Group is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for preparing the largest green salad.

2003

2006

Salad products factory.

2006

2008

Honey harvesting at the Belaya Dacha apiary.

2008

2009

Laying of the foundation stone at the Saint Martyr Victor Church and consecration by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

2009

2010

Former PM Viktor Chernomyrdin in the flower greenhouses of Belaya Dacha. 2010.

Exhibition ‘Mount Athos. Images of the Holy Land’.

State Historical Museum

The exhibition was co-organised by Belaya Dacha Group and the Russian Geographical Society.

2010

2011

Exhibition ‘Mount Athos. Images of the Holy Land’.

State Historical Museum.

The exhibition was co-organised by Belaya Dacha Group and the Russian Geographical Society.

2011

2012

Annual equestrian competition Belaya Dacha.

2012

Moscow Region Governor Sergei Shoigu discusses the plan of district development.

2012

President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov attended the opening ceremony of the new salad production plant.

2012

Football team of Belaya Dacha Group, under the leadership of Vladimir Tsyganov, CEO of Belaya Dacha.

2012

Opening of Russia’s first outlet centre, Outlet Village Belaya Dacha.

2012

2013

95th Anniversary of Belaya Dacha Group.

Belaya Dacha Group celebrated its 95th anniversary. This anniversary perfectly illustrates the successful development despite any historical circumstances. Beginning in 1918 with agriculture, in the second half of the century, the company extended its success story as a major developer, widely known in the Russian and international real estate markets.

2013

2014

According to the independent research holding Romir, Belaya Dacha is becoming No. 1 brand of ready-to-eat salads.

2014

2018

Belaya Dacha celebrates a grand anniversary: 100 years since the establishment of the first artel, which started the company’s history.

2018

2020

Belaya Dacha remains the leading brand in the Russian salad market and keeps growing. Now production plants operate in three regions of Russia.

2020