Karaganda Metallurgical Combine

Karaganda Metallurgical Combine 

one of the major metallurgical enterprises in the USSR. It is located in the city of Temirtau, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakh SSR. The combine was formed in 1970 on the basis of the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant. It also includes the Kazakh Metallurgical Plant, the Atasu and Iuzhnyi-Topar ore administrations, and the Alekseevka dolomite quarry. Coking coals from the Karaganda Coal Basin serve as fuel for the combine. The combine produces cast iron, steel, sheet and sectional rolled products, coke, and coke byproducts.

The Kazakh Metallurgical Plant was put into operation during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45. The first open-hearth furnace began operating in 1944, and the first rolling mill in 1946. The Karaganda Plant went into service in 1960. In 1972 the combine consisted of a blast furnace plant with three furnaces, steel casting production (two open-hearth shops and an oxygen converter shop with three converters having a capacity of 250 tons each), rolling mills and coke by-product production, mines and quarries, and a sintering plant. In 1971 the combine produced 2, 528, 000 tons of cast iron, 3, 116, 000 tons of steel, and 2, 670, 000 tons of rolled products.

IU. O. RAEV and P. A. SHIRIAEV