the first coal raw material for the foundry , and in 1800 lugansk electric trains launched a house, buthe russian empires produced pig iron using coke , it was this enterprise that was so necessary that when next year, on the ninety-sixth century , emperor paul the first took over the leadership of the empire, which, in fact, crossed out many of the undertakings of catherine ii, nevertheless, the construction of this plant was given. so important that it continued into serious difficulties. the foundry began after the war. 1812 , which greatly depleted production , required a transition from lithium, cores and cannons to in 1818, a mining engineer was sent to lugansk to manufacture peaceful products. evgraf, kovalevsky, the future director of the department of mining and salt affairs, and later the minister of public education, he proves that the plant should become the center for the development of the metallurgical mining industry in southern russia and, most importantly, kovalevsky for the first time systematically explores the subsoil, the region, indicating where and how to mine th