 | For the first time in Ukraine oxygen was used in blast-furnace process on an industrial scale while smelting conversion pig iron at Dneprovskiy Metallurgical Plant |
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|  | Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of Kazkhstan had practiced at Dneprovskiy Metallurgical Plant in his student life and later worked there |
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|  | Apollon Mevius, the founding father of Ukrainian metallurgy who dedicated nearly 50 years to the branch, used to be the first director of Alchevsk Steel Mill |
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