"Kamastal" Close Company has been operating since 1994.
The "Motovilikha" TM has been known for more than 260 years, with the metallurgy of the plant being continuously upgraded.

The lights of Motovilikha : Talking about the famous Ural plant we invariably draw this image in our imagination.

The First fire burned on the slopes of the ravine at Red Mountain - those were the first lights of Motovilikha. Vasily Tatishchev founded the Motovilikha Copper foundry in May, 1736. In December the same year foundry worker Ivan Lopatin tapped the first hearth at the foundry - those were also the lights of Motovilikha.

In 1863 Nikolay Vorontsov began to construct a steel foundry. Its forges would blaze away, white-hot steel would spout out of them - those were also the lights of Motovilikha! Many a time the fire command was given at the testing grounds of the steel foundry. Motovilikha's heavy guns would fire and cannon-balls would fly above the Kama - those were again the lights of Motovilikha: A cast-iron foundry was founded in 1864. 4265 poods (one pood equaled 16,38 kg) of cast iron would simultaneously spout out of six furnaces to turn into the tsar -cannon shooting cannon-balls of 28 poods with the weight of powder charge of 4 poods. It fired 314 shots! Those were also the lights of Motovilikha! 1875 saw the first steam-hammer which could forge ingots weighing more than 3000 poods. Casting metal into moulds would take 29 hours. Flasks would cool down from February to May - that was also Motovilikha's fire!

White-hot steel spouted out of the first open-hearth furnace at the Motovilikha Plant in 1876. In 1886 the first electric lights were tuned on. Engineer Nikolay Slavyanov demonstrated his invention - electric-arc welding by means of metal electrode in one of the shops of the plant on October 18 1888, and that creative flame penetrated into all corners of the planet and onto space orbits.

The history of the plant is interwoven into the history of Russia. In 1905 Motovilikha's workmen put out the fire of the open-hearth furnaces. Another - revolutionary fire blazed up. An armed revolt began. Shots rang out in December. People lost their lives: but the fire didn't die out. It only flamed up into fires and explosions of WW I. The whole Russia was enveloped in revolutionary flames in 1917. Then a civil war broke out, which touched the lives of Motovilikha's people too.

But the plant continued working. In the 20s and 30s the plant produced machines, heavy machinery and artillery. In 1939 WW II started. In 1941 the plant embarked on a period of continuous military shift. It operated up to 18 hours a day, without days-off and holidays. Lights kept shining in the shops, in the design office day and night. The plant designers, engineers and workers never thought of having a minute's rest, supplying the front line with new heavy guns. During the World Patriotic War the plant was decorated with three orders. The factory workers and engineers were also decorated with orders and medals: While the youth went to the front. Motovilikha sent a lot of men to the front, 12 of them became Heroes of the Soviet Union. Thousands of them died the death of heroes.

In the post-war years the lights of Motovilikha continued shining: on the unit of continuous steel casting. On the electro slag refining work bay. In the copra shop on the hydro stamping bay. In the new martin shop. In the sheet-rolling, steel shaping, and cast-iron shops. In the spring and thermal shops. In the shops that for years were referred to as "shop 1, 2 or 3" and which the press did not write about but where artillery and then rocket systems and upgraded arms were made:

But above all Motovilikha is famous for its heroes and heroines - workmen and engineers, Labour Heroes and unknown peasants who once became serf labour, the first copper ore miners and foundry men of the copper foundry, gunners of the steel and cast-iron works producing heavy guns, the widows who lost their bread-winners, who became water-carriers by tradition, young children working as apprentices. 55 families entered the list of The Golden Book of the plant working dynasties. Toilers from the Katarginy family have been working in the plant for more than one thousand years. The other famous families are the Aspidovys, Astasnyevys, Gilyevys, Gnevashinys, Vaganovys, Ledentsovys, Kolpakovys, Pirozhkovys:

A lot of ordinary people passed through the plant checkpoints throughout its history. Splinters, candles, oil lamps burned in the wooden huts (izby) in Visim, Vyshka, Zaprud and Gortsy. Every day people went to work. Sometimes they died bravely in battle, of illnesses and hard work, political struggle, terror and economic dislocation. Sometimes they earned everlasting glory. What ordeals came women and teenagers' way during the Great Patriotic War! A lot of people died young in that war:

And all their destinies, both happy and tragic, all these people, both known and unknown toilers, are Motovilikha's major force and value, its vital sinew. This is the way it was 265 years ago. This is the way it is today.