Azovstal
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one of the largest steel rolling companies in Ukraine
Key facts
- Native name
- Mеталургійний Kомбінат Азовсталь
- Company type
- Private , Combine
- Traded as
- PFTS : AZST
- Industry
- Steel production
- Founded
- 2 February 1930 ( 1930-02-02 )
- Defunct
- 20 May 2022
- Fate
- Destroyed during the siege of Mariupol
- Headquarters
- Mariupol , Ukraine
- Key people
- Rinat Akhmetov , Enver Tskitishvili (Энвер Омарович Цкитишвили) (April 2011 – May 2022), (General Director)
- Net income
- ₴558,417,000 (2016)
- Total assets
- 3,329,490,000 hryvnia (2025)
- Owner
- Metinvest B.V. , Metinvest International
- Number of employees
- 12,293 (2015 )
- Parent
- Metinvest
- Subsidiaries
- Sigma TV Channel, Sygma TV Channel, Firma Marita, AzovMed
- Website
- azovstal.metinvestholding.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- public company
- Named after
- steel
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Headquarters
- Mariupol
- Parent organization
- Metinvest
- Industry
- iron and steel industry
- Employees
- 10260
- Legal form
- closed joint-stock company
- Official website
- azovstal.metinvestholding.com
- Image
- Azovstal panoramy 9.JPG
- Significant event
- Battle of Azovstal
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- inception
- 1933-00-00
- Commons category
- Azovstal
- product or material produced
- rail
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- native label
- Металургійний Комбінат Азовсталь
- net profit
- 558417000
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Encyclopedic overview
The Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, or Azovstal Metallurgical Combine (Ukrainian: Mеталургійний Kомбінат Азовсталь, pronounced [ɐˌzɔu̯ˈstɑl]; PFTS: AZST), was a metallurgical facility located in Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, and one of the largest steel rolling companies in the country.
The Azovstal plant became one of the most emblematic points of the siege of Mariupol during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The plant had tunnels and bunkers capable of withstanding a nuclear attack, making it an extremely defensible position. As the Russian forces advanced into Mariupol, Ukrainian forces withdrew to Azovstal, and by late April 2022 it became the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the city. The battle of Azovstal occurred on the site, culminating in the surrender of the remaining Ukrainian defenders after over a month of resistance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Azovstal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.