After this equipment was transported to the city for reassembly, the government decided to relocate the plant to Bashkortostan in response to the rapid expansion of crude oil production in the region at the time.

Construction commenced in June 1948 after the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union approved the final plans on March 30, 1948, and set production targets for the plant.

Over the next two decades, the complex transformed into the largest petrochemical plant in the Soviet Union, with several new production units built to meet the demands of the eighth five-year plan.

This is as well as maintaining the capacity to process crude with a high sulfur content from local oil fields located to the north of Bashkortostan.

To meet these targets, the urea and ammonia production facilities were reconstructed, and Salavat became the largest producer of fertilizer in the Soviet Union, manufacturing over one million tons per year.

The economic crisis that affected the Russian Federation throughout the 1990s also forced the plant to shutter facilities due to a lack of both raw materials and customers.

By the beginning of the 21st century, the plant had begun a program of major investment, reconstructing and modernizing various facilities within the Salavat petrochemical complex.

Salavat also exported its products to approximately thirty countries within Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, including large quantities to Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Kazakhstan.