Biysk: Difference between revisions

|leader_name_ref=<ref name="LeaderName">[https://biysk22.ru/liders/glava-goroda-biyska/ Глава города Бийска Щигрев Виктор Андреевич] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225134619/https://biysk22.ru/liders/glava-goroda-biyska/ |date=December 25, 2022 }} {{in lang|ru}}</ref>

The city's industry grew rapidly, especially after some factories were evacuated there from the west of the [[Soviet Union]] during [[World War II]]. Later the city was an important center of arms development (including [[solid-fuel rocket]] engines<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/4_biysl.htm |title= Soviet Solid Rocket Motor Production Plant |date=1996 |publisher=FAS |access-date=June 11, 2014 |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714201528/http://fas.org/irp/imint/4_biysl.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>) and production and still remains an industrial center.

[[Evalar]], one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Russia, is headquartered in Biysk.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.evalar.com/about/company-history/|title=Company history - Evalar|access-date=April 13, 2020|archive-date=September 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927131936/https://www.evalar.com/about/company-history/|url-status=live}}</ref>

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