Mariupol': Encyclopedia II - Mariupol' - Economy

Mariupol' - Economy

Mariupol' - Industry

Mariupol is home to major steel mills (including some globally-important) and chemical plants, also an important seaport and a railroad junction. Notable shipyards, fish canneries, metallurgy-related education and science institutions also present.

In Mariupol 56 industrial enterprises of various patterns of ownership operate. The industry of city diversified with prevalence of the heavy industry. The total amount of industrial production of city for 8 months 2005 (January - August) has made 21,378.2 million gryvnas, i.e. 4.233 billion USD (in 1999 - 6,169.806 million gryvnas, i.e. 1.222 billion USD). Densities of city on this parameter in Donetsk oblast - 37,5 %.

Leading branch is ferrous metallurgy. Its densities in city volume of industrial production makes 93.5 %.

• Open Society " Ilyich Mariupol steel and iron works " ("Mariupol Metallurgical Combine of name Ilyich") - the metallurgical enterprise of Ukraine second on the sizes (after " Krivorozhstal "), the largest enterprise of a national economy of Donbass and, one of the largest exporters of Ukraine, the enterprise with a full metallurgical cycle.

Ilyich Mariupol steel and iron works is the collective property of a society of tenants ("Joint-Stock Company " Ilyich-steel ""; about 37000 workers - shareholders). The head of board of enterprise - the People's Deputy, the hero of Ukraine Boyko Vladimir Semenovich. The enterprise has structural divisions: management of public catering and trade ("УОПТ", a network of 52 enterprises), a chemist's network "Ilyich-Pharm", more than 50 agroshops (former collective farms of the south of Donetsk and Zaporozhye areas), Komsomol mines office, the machine-building enterprises (including in the Cherkassy area), airport "Mariupol", the Mariupol city TV ("MTV") etc. More than 92000 workers work in enterprise (the end of 2005). 6 million tone of iron, 7 million tone of steel, 5,3 million tone of rolled iron, 13,5 million tone of agglomerate annually.

• Open Society " Azovstal " - metallurgical enterprise ("Combine"), a monopolist in Ukraine on release of some names of metal rolling, the enterprise with a full metallurgical cycle. The general director - Bely Aleksey.

On a level of the gross revenue Azovstal takes the third place among the metallurgical enterprises of Ukraine. 6 million tone of pig-iron, 7 million tone of steel, 4,5 million tone of rolled iron annually. It is closely connected with Mariupol cokes factory " Markokhim " (prevailing which part of production is consumed by Azovstal)

• Open Society " Concern " Azovmash " " - the largest machine-building enterprise of Ukraine (city of Mariupol), specializing on release of the equipment for a mining-metallurgical complex, tanks-cars, port cranes, boilers, fuel-fillers etc. The President - Savchuk Aleksandr. The enterprise formally belongs to the state, but actually - " System Capital Management " (Donetsk financial and economic group led by Akhmetov Rinat).

• Azov ship-repair factory ("АСРЗ") - the largest enterprise of the class on sea of Azov (city of Mariupol). The enterprise is subordinated " System Capital Management " (Donetsk financial and economic group led by Akhmetov Rinat).

• Open Society " Mariupol sea trading port " - (city of Mariupol) largest in East Ukraine, makes sea transportations of coal, metal, production of mechanical engineering, ore, grain from Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk and the next areas of Ukraine, Russia.

• Azov sea shipping company (since 2003 of Open Company " Merchant marine fleet of Donbass ") - already gone bankrupt enterprise which is earlier carrying out sea transportations from ports of sea of Azov (Mariupol, Berdyansk, Taganrog). The property (with 2003 - officially) " System Capital Management " (Donetsk financial and economic group led by Akhmetov Rinat).

The free economic zone Azov ' works in territory of Mariupol.

Mariupol' - Building

A industrial construction prevails. Mass building of inhabited quarters in city has terminated in 80th years of the last century. Mainly the comfortable habitation now is under construction.

The building organizations of city for 9 months 2005 execute volume of contract civil and erection works on 304.4 million gryvnas. Densities of city on this parameter in city is 22.1%.

Mariupol' - Transportation

• Urban electric transport ("МТТУ", Mariupol Tram-trolleybus management):
  • A trams, street-cars (since 1933) - 12 routes (machines of mark КТМ-5 and КТМ-8 work),
  • A trolley buses (since 1970) - 14 routes (machines of marks work: Skoda 14Тr, ZIU-10, ZIU-9, YuMZ T-1, YuMZ T-2).
• Buses - mainly the private minibuses which are carrying out transportations on city, on the suburban and long-distance message.
• Road service station (from which including transportations in Taganrog, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Kiev, Odessa, Yalta, Dnepropetrovsk are carried out etc.) and suburban autostation (routes mainly on Pershotravnevy and to Volodarsky to areas Donetsk oblast).
• Railway station " Mariupol ". The city is connected by the railway to Donbass (the Direction of trains: Moscow, Kiev, Lvov, Saint Petersburg, Minsk, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kharkov, Poltava, Slavyansk).
• A marina in territory of sea trading port.
• International airport " Mariupol " (the property Ilyich Mariupol steel and iron works).

Routes of a city trolley bus:

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