TESP (English: Society for the Exploitation of Potassium Salt, Polish: Towarzystwo Eksploatacji Soli Potasowych) was a private mining enterprise, which existed in the
Second Polish Republic
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, with head office in
Lwow
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. It operated potassium salt mines in
Kalusz and
Stebnik, and sponsored a soccer team ''TESP Kalusz''. Before
World War I
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, the potassium salt mines in Kalusz and Stebnik had been operated by the government of
Austria-Hungary
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.
In 1961 in its place was created a big Soviet chemical and metallurgical association Khlorvinil that used to employ some 17,000 workers.
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). 16 November 2012
See also
*
Ugartsthal - an ethnic German village, whose name was in late 1930s changed to Tespowo, after the company.
References
External links
Salt mine TESP in Stebnik, 1930shttps://sites.google.com/site/karpatiretro/
Companies of the Second Polish Republic
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