State enterprise of a special instrumentation Arsenal (Ukrainian: Казенне підприємство спеціального приладобудування «Арсенал», Kazenne pidpryiemstvo spetsialnoho pryladobuduvannya Arsenal), for brevity Arsenal Factory, is one of the oldest and most famous industrial factories of the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
Started in 1764 as a repair and production facility of the Russian army, the factory was initially based in a Kiev fortress compound in the P...
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State enterprise of a special instrumentation Arsenal (Ukrainian: Казенне підприємство спеціального приладобудування «Арсенал», Kazenne pidpryiemstvo spetsialnoho pryladobuduvannya Arsenal), for brevity Arsenal Factory, is one of the oldest and most famous industrial factories of the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
Started in 1764 as a repair and production facility of the Russian army, the factory was initially based in a Kiev fortress compound in the Pechersk (Печерськ) district of the city. It is now a large state-owned company. Workers at the factory included sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who worked as a grinder at the factory prior to 1941.
On January 29, 1918, the workers of the factory organized an armed pro-Bolshevik mutiny known as a Kiev Arsenal mutiny or a January Rebellion against Tsentral'na Rada, the Ukrainian assembly that declared the independence of Ukraine. To commemorate the event, the Soviet authorities preserved the historic defensive wall bearing the traces of shelling ...
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