Combine (enterprise)
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One of the 17,000 workers at the Kombinat Robotron in the German Democratic Republic in 1987 working to produce typewriters
Combine (Russian: Комбинат) is a term for industrial business groups[1] or conglomerates in the socialist countries and particularly the former Soviet Union. Examples include VEB Kombinat Robotron, an electronics manufacturer, and IFA, a manufacturer of vehicles, both in East Germany, and the Erdenet copper combine in Mongolia.
It has several related forms:
- A large industrial enterprise that combines several different enterprises that are related to each other by a technological process or through an administration. Example: a metallurgy combine combines all forms of production such as factories, mines and other to produce steel sheets.
- A combination of educational-developmental institutions of different levels such as an institute and a tekhnikum, day care and kindergarten (Child combine).
- Combination of various enterprises as one of the forms of monopoly.
References
External links
- Комбiнат at a dictionary of the Ukrainian language (in Ukrainian)
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