Family business In the very heart of Ukraine, on the boundless space of Ukrainian steppes the old uyezd town-fortress Kirovograd is situated where the Sukhoys family started the production of the favourite "Zolotoj vek TM" halva.  Kirovograd halva was famous due to its high quality and great taste in the post-war period in 1950s when it was skillfully cooked in hand. During the years of soviet power the able workmen and their skills were lost little by little and our traditional favourite Ukrainian dainty of kids and adults turned into staple foods manufactured at soviet plants. It resulted into the loss of splendid compounding and, of course, the quality of halva. When perestrojka came in 1990s Ukraine gained the independence and the country gradually changed its nature. We wanted to revive the lost, to march in step with time and to please the new, more fastidious consumer. That was how "Zolotoj vek", the trademark imposed by time, appeared.  At the beginning, the half-wrecked old building was bought in Chernyakhovka village (the suburbs of Kirovograd) and the old equipment was thoroughly selected and restored. There a small workshop started producing halva and only 5 people worked at it.
The Sukhoys family, Aleksandr and Larisa, who both graduated from the Odessa food industry institute, are excellent professionals with great experience and long record of work. They stated reviving of production of high-quality halva.
"From the very beginning the following objective was set up: to produce popular product, halva, of the highest possible quality, delicious, structurally coherent and with the longest possible shelf life time. The urge towards attaining this objective encouraged us to choose the new technological techniques and to use compounding in a new way, because the quality of ingredients for halva's production changed with time.
To achieve this it took us some years of painstaking work in choosing the compounding for producing halva and suppliers of the high-quality raw stock. And at last concerning all demands for food products, using known and inventing new technology in halva's production the difficult objective was attained. We have manufactured the product that gained the awards of several food product exhibitions together with the appreciation and popularity of halva's admirers."  In present the product manufactured by the "Try star Ltd." under the "Zolotoj vek" trademark includes the 10 sorts of halva and 5 sorts of cozinaki. They are sold all over Ukraine and in Russia, Israel, USA, Canada and Europe. Strict demands to technological process, to the raw stock used in production of halva and cozinaki, reasonable price policy, excellent packing, mobile network of retail trade made it possible to manufacture and sell the product that became the favourite dainty of people. The family business in which the owners are the father, mother, their son and daughter allows to arrange and establish the work of the whole friendly staff of professionals in achieving the high results manufacturing the products under "Zolotoj vek" trademark. Some historical factsThe city of Kirovograd (since 1775 till 1924 had a name of Yelisavetgrad, till 1934 - Zinovjevsk, till 1939 - Kirov).
In 1752 in this place according to the tsar decree about the invasion of the Tatars and Turks the St. Elizabeth Fortress was founded upon the Ingul River between its two confluents - the Sugokleya River and the Gruzjka River. Soon around these military installations, the fortress walls of which are situated in the city nearly untouched even nowadays, the settlement appeared. In 1755 it was named Yelisavetgrad and it was the future center of the steppe land.
Since 1797 Yelisavetgrad was a chief town of an uyezd in Novorosiysk region, since 1802 - in Nikolaev region, since 1803 - Kherson region. In the 18th century it was developed mostly as the center of trade, but in the 19th century - as an industrial center. Since 1939 Kirovograd is the center of Kirovograd region. The further history of the city is connected with memorable events and names of famous people. The leader of peasants' liberation campaign Yemeljyn Pugachev was a soldier in the fortress, the famous military leaders Suvorov A.V. and Kutuzov M.I. came to the town for several times to check the combat training, the famous surgeon Pirogov N.I. laid the foundation of the field surgery during the Crimea War (1853-1856). The heroes of the Patriotic war of 1812 N.Rajevskiy and D.Davydov, the Decembrists I.Sukhinov and Y.Obolenskiy, the poets A.Pushkin, T.Shevchenko, A.Mytzkevych visited Yelisavetgrad. The residents of the city visited the lectures of famous linguist Grygorovych and listened to the last concert of famous composer F.List. "Vechernytzy" of the famous Ukrainian composer P.Nitshenskiy sounded here for the first time. Yelisavetgrad is the cradle of Ukrainian professional theatre. The coryphaeuses of national stage such as Mark Kropyvnytzkyy, the brothers and a sister from the very talented family of the Tobylevyches, Ivan Karpenko-Karyy, Panas Saksaganskyy, N.Sadovskyy, Maria Sadovskaya-Brilotti, the playwright M.Starytskyy and the famous Ukrainian actress Mariya Zankovetskaya were at the beginning of it and worked here.
The poet Demjyan Bednyy, Yuriy Yanovskyy, the author of the novel "Riders", and the playwright Ivan Mykytenko made the first steps in their creative activity here in this city. | 
