<p>The<br />

Kramatorsk Metallurgical Society plant was one of the biggest<br />

metallurgical and machine building plants of the Russian Empire in<br />

the early 20th century. Built by the Wilhelm Fitzner and Konrad<br />

Gamper company in 1899, the plant became<br />

the Kramatorsk Metallurgical Society joint stock company in the same<br />

year. The equipment produced by the Kramatorsk plant was twice, in<br />

1900 and 1910, awarded with the Grand Prix at an international<br />

exhibition in Paris.</p><br />

<p>The<br />

Society supplied the palaces of the Russian Emperor and members of<br />

his family, as well as the state institutions’ buildings, with<br />

boilers. It also was a supplier for the biggest industrial<br />

enterprises of the Russian Empire.</p><br />

<p>On<br />

17 November 1920 the plant was nationalized and renamed as the<br />

Kramatorsk State Machine Building and Metallurgical Plant. Now it is<br />

the Starokramatorsk Machine Building Plant. http://www.skmz.dn.ua/</p><p>Author: Volodymyr Kulikov</p>