OJSC "Pava" (before June 2005 the company was known as OJSC "Agro-Industrial Company "Khleb Altaya") is one of the Russia's largest processors of wheat. The company is engaged in procuring, transporting, storing and merchandising agricultural commodities and products, such as wheat, wheat flour, semolina, bran and different types of groats (barley, fine-ground barley, buckwheat, pearl-barley, peas and other). Today, the company's share is 40% of total flour production output in Altay region or 3 -5 % of total flour output produced in Russia. The flour manufactured by Pava is famous for its quality and high environmental characteristics.

The company has three milling plants, each with its own modern cylinder-shaped concrete terminal ("elevator") for storage and shipment of grain. Products shipped from the mills leave by rail as each plant has its own rail-line.