During the era of the Russian Empire, the largest enterprise in Southern Polyana was the RaMiBa factory, located at the beginning of the modern Sverdlov Street. Founded in 1901, it specialized in the production of high-quality furniture. Three merchants, Rabinovich, Mikhailov, and Baryshnikov, combined their capitals to create this factory, naming it after the first letters of their surnames: RaMiBa. From the very beginning, they set high standards, producing furniture from mahogany, including Viennese chairs, cabinets, and dressers. To attract valuable specialists, they invited engineers from Poland and purchased expensive equipment in Moscow. This allowed them to open a new workshop for producing washbasins with marble slabs and mirrors. The factory's products matched the quality and aesthetics of the best foreign samples. Additionally, they established a rare production of bamboo furniture in the country. Before the outbreak of World War I, the factory was actively developing, producing over 40 dozen Viennese chairs daily, which were sold throughout the Volga region.

Later, merchant Shagaev acquired the factory for a significant sum and moved production from Southern Polyana to Kirov Street, renaming it the Buk factory.