<p>

The plant history starts in

1896. The plant was founded by Konrad Gamper, a Swiss, who took out

Russian citizenship in 1896 and was entered among the merchants; he

became a St. Petersburg merchant of the first guild. In the same year

Konrad Gamper bought a plot near the Kramatorska station to build a

plant there. The first acting managing director of the plant was

Mavrykiy Khorzhevsky.</p>

<p>

The plant, founded by

Konrad Gamper, became one of the biggest metallurgical and machine

building plants of the Russian Empire in the early 20th century.</p>

<p>

On 17 November 1920 the

plant was nationalized. Now it is the Starokramatorsk Machine

Building Plant.</p>