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Ural Steel History
Ural Steel history is original and unique. Nature itself laid down everything required for a giant of domestic industry to be built here at the foot of the Ural Mountains. Many generations of metallurgists forged its victories and achievements despite all the difficulties.
1929Iosif Leontyevich Rudnitsky discovered a unique ore deposit
27 августа 1940Resolution on the construction of OKhMK (Orsk-Khalilovsk Iron & Steel Plant) was signed
1941The first refractory brick was produced in the Firebrick Department
1950Startup of the Combined Heat and Power Plant, startup of the first Coke Oven Battery
05 марта 1955First hot metal was tapped from Blast furnace No. 1
1958First steel was melted in Open-Hearth Furnace No. 1
1959Startup of the Air Separation Plant units
19602800 Rolling Mill was started and the first plate was produced
19621120 Blooming Mill commissioned
1963Sinter Plant was commissioned and the first sinter was produced
1969950/800 Long Product Rolling Mill was commissioned
1978First rolled product was produced at 800 Universal Mill
1981First electric-arc-furnace steel was produced in the Steelmaking Plant
1983Continuous Casting Machine No.1 was started in the Steelmaking Plant
27 ноября 1992OJSC NOSTA was created on the basis of OKhMK
01 декабря 2003NOSTA was transformed
into Ural Steel
2005The Plant became part of the Metalloinvest company
2007Start of major revamping of the Steelmaking Plant and Plate Rolling Mill No.1
2012Startup of the Air Separation Unit No.5 in the Air Separation Plant and VD in the Steelmaking Plant
2013Decommissioning of Open-Hearth Furnace Plant and startup of Coke Oven
Battery No.6
2015Startup of Casting Machine No. 5
in the Blast Furnace Plant
2017Industrial waste landfill was opened, Continuous Casting Machine No.1 was modernized
2018Startup of Heat Treatment and Quenching Complex in Plate Rolling Mill No.1
2019Conversion of Electric Arc Furnaces
in the Steelmaking Plant to FMF technology
2020Startup of new Medium-Pressure
Boilers in the Combined Heat and Power Plant
2021Commissioning of Blast Furnaces No. 2 and 3 after modernization
01 марта 2022Merger with Zagorsk Pipe Plant
into Ural Steel Group of Companies
2023Modernization of pelletizing drums in the Sinter Plant
2024Startup of “Hot Metal supermarket” (Mixer Department) in the Steelmaking Plant
Iosif Leontyevich Rudnitsky discovered a unique ore deposit
Key events marked with a star symbol (★)