A Factory-kitchen or kitchen factory (russian: Фабрика-кухня) was a large mechanized enterprise of
food service in the
Soviet Union, originated in the 1920–1930s. Its main purpose was centralized preparation of food (both prefabrication and full processing) supplied for communal dining rooms or for personal purchase. Factory-kitchens were characteristic of their unique architecture. Sometimes the term is inadequately translated as communal kitchen, the latter being a kitchen in a Soviet
communal apartment.
The idea of centralized food preparation was part of the emancipation of the women from the household work in early Soviet Union, and to better tap into women's workforce. Along with the
house-commune
A house-commune (russian: дом-коммуна) was an architectural and social movement in early Soviet Union of 1920–1930s. The purpose of the house-communes was to get rid of "the yoke of the household economy".Richard Stites, ''The Women' ...
s, factory-kitchens were to get rid of "the yoke of the household economy". Slogans of the day were "Away with Pots and Pans!" and "The Saucepan is an Enemy of the
Party Cell
The organization of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was based on the principles of democratic centralism.
The governing body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was the Party Congress, which initially met annually but whose m ...
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[ Richard Stites, ''The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930'', 1978, ]
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Various Soviet writers described how "a single person can prepare from fifty to hundred dinners a day".[ A children's book ''A Cook for a Whole City''][Т.Габбе, З.Задунайская. ''Повар на весь город.'' (''A Cook for a Whole City'') ]OGIZ
Publishing houses in the Soviet Union were a series of publishing enterprises which existed in the Soviet Union.
Centralization
On 8 August 1930, the Sovnarkom of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) established the state p ...
, 1932, 1934 described in detail how efficiently a kitchen-factory works.
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Фабрика-кухня Выборгского (Сталинского) района
Architecture in the Soviet Union
Women's rights in Russia
Food industry