whether the future founder of the lugansk foundry would have ended up in russia, scottish engineer carl gascoineif not for the spy scandal, gascoin became famous for his invention of the rapid-fire coronada cannon, which many armies around the world dreamed of acquiring. i also ordered a batch of guns from gazkoin, but somehow, along with them, we also got the drawings of these same guns. gascoin was accused of treason, and the wise russian empress catherine immediately invited the talented arms maker to russia, concluding with him an indefinite contract for the construction of factories throughout the country. building a plant in a sparsely populated region was extremely risky, it was difficult and... karl gospoin understood this, he brought with him 12 english specialists who settled on english street, in addition they were transported to the future plant under construction, workers were transported from closed lipetsk, olonet factories and from kherson, they come here with their families, settle here, and start building a factory. the lugansk plant never changed its weapons specifications; du