AO “Uralkhimmash” a major manufacturer of equipment for oil and gas complex, enterprises of chemical, metallurgical industry. It was created at the beginning of the Great Patriotic war on the basis of the evacuated from Kyiv factory “Bolshevik”. The official day of birthday is considered 23-rd of February, 1942, when passed the military acceptance of the first batch of 120-mm regimental mortar.