[12] In Soviet times, about half of the strong alcohol produced at the factory was exported, mainly to Western European countries.

[9][13] The factory also required new suppliers due to the closure of Kizlyar and Tarumovsky district vineyards starting in 1985.

Due to the shortage of raw materials the company began to buy grapes in Spain or, in harvest years, in Krasnodar and Stavropol regions.

[13] In 1998, during the Chechen–Russian conflict, Vladimir Grigoriants, the director of the factory, and his wife were kidnapped and had been held in Chechen captivity for eight months.

During his leadership, the company carried out modernization at its own expense and increased production volumes, becoming the main source of the Dagestan budget.

[15] Also in 2008, the factory restored the status of the Kremlin Suppliers Guild[10] On August 28, 2014, by order of the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, the Kizlyar Brandy Factory was transferred to federal ownership and became a subject of Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation.

[22] At the end of 2015, the factory became the second largest enterprise in Dagestan with a total revenue of 2.4 billion rubles.