Sausages and delicacies according to traditional recipes are produced in the Altai village

Valery Dushchenko's family meat processing enterprise has launched the production of sausages, smoked meats and semi-finished meat products in the village of Redkaya Dubrava, German National Region, Altai Territory.

Sausages and meat delicacies, which Dushchenko produces together with his wife Olga Fresher, may well qualify for a regional brand. The village of Redkaya Dubrava (Gnadenheim), founded in 1908 by a community of fraternal Mennonites, keeps the old traditions of meat processing. In 1995, Germans made up 39% of the local population. In the early 1990s, an agricultural artel-stud farm for breeding red steppe cattle was established in Rare Dubrava.

Valery Dushchenko worked on the collective farm. Karl Marx, who went bankrupt six years ago. Then he registered as an individual entrepreneur, bought a meat processing workshop and acquired modern equipment in order to produce products according to old recipes. Now his family business ships to customers about four tons of sausages, two tons of semi-finished products and tons of smoked meat delicacies per month.

Since 2016, products that are sold in a small rural store have gained popularity and have taken their own special niche in the local market. Now it is regularly delivered to Khabary, Slavgorod and Yarovoe. Often, tourists from other regions of Siberia appear at the branded outlet to buy goodies. Local sausages and delicacies have a homemade taste, because they are prepared in the same way as for themselves, and they try to keep prices down, the shop owner explains the success.