 A number of prominent plants and factories were established or moved from eastern parts of the USSR.This resulted in partial Russification of the city and some loss of its western flavour.Among the most notable plants were the bus factory ("Lvivsky Avtomobilny Zavod"), which produced most of the buses in the Soviet Union and employed upwards of 30,000, TV factory "Zavod Elektron" which made one of the most popular brand of television sets in the country, the front-end loader factory ("Zavod Avto-Pogruzchik"), the shoe factory ("Obuvnaya Fabrika Progress"), confectionery "Svitoch", and many more.