Closed JSC «Donskoy Tabak» (also known as «Don Tobacco») is a former name of Russian cigarette and tobacco manufacturing company, located in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. It was a part of the Japan Tobacco — a cigarette manufacturing international company, until merged into subsidiary JTI. As of 2018, Donskoy Tabak was Russia's fourth-largest cigarette manufacturer.[2]
History
Donskoy Tabak is the successor company to a tobacco factory first established by a Russian entrepreneur Vasily Asmolov in 1857 In Rostov-on-Don. In the 1870s, Asmolov's cigarettes won international recognition at Vienna World's Fair, Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, and Paris World's Fair. As a result, Asmolov's tobacco factory became the "Supplier of His Imperial Majesty's Court" for the Russian Emperor.[3]
After the Revolution of 1917, the factory was nationalised and renamed into Don State Tobacco Factory (DSTF).