The story
The company was founded in the 1950s under the government of the Soviet Union as Kazan Chemical Plant. Production began in 1959.
As of 2009 Kazanorgsintez had approximately 8,300 employees and its stock was listed in the Russian trading system.
Investment company Svyazinvestneftekhim was a shareholder in Kazanorgsintez as of 2016. In 2016, Svyazinvestneftekhim transferred a 16.09 percent stake in Kazanorgsintez to AK BARS Bank to increase its capitalization.
On 14 January 2025, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine launched a drone attack on the Kazan Orgsintez chemical plant in Tatarstan, about 1,000 km (620 mi) from the border with Ukraine, causing a series of explosions and fires in three liquified natural gas (LNG) storage tanks. Russian sources acknowledged the attack.
From Wikipedia’s article on Kazanorgsintez, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
