In 1869, Hughes (or Yuz) began the construction of a metallurgical plant with a working settlement near the village of Aleksandrovka.

[3][6] In April 1918, after the attack of German-Austrian troops, most of the equipment and materials of the Yuzovsky plant were evacuated to Tsaritsyn (Volgograd), and detachments of workers retreated with the Red Army.

[6] In May 1918, during the German occupation, an underground organization of the Russian Communist Party bolsheviks or the RCP(b), led by E. Severyanov, began operating at the plant, and in July 1918 an underground regional committee of six members began operating at the plant.

[6] In December 1919, Soviet power was restored in Yuzovka, on January 30, 1920, a workers' board of all enterprises of the former "Novorossiysk Society of Coal, Iron and Rail Production" (headed by M. S. Titov) was created in Yuzovka, and the restoration of the plant began.

[4] The restoration of the plant began immediately after the end of the battles for the city, and on February 14, 1944, the plant carried out the first steel smelting from the flat furnace; in March 1944, the rolling mill and the first blast furnace were put into operation; between 1944 and 1946, the enterprise was awarded the Red flag ten times by the Soviet Defense Committee for the successful restoration of the facility.

[5] Dear Joseph Vissarionovich!The workers of the Stalin Metallurgical Plant in Donbass, inspired by the victorious offensive of the Red Army, collected 1,400,000 rubles from their personal funds for the defense fund of our beloved Motherland.

In 1960, a four-jet continuous casting machine for steel blanks was put into operation at the plant.

[4] Also, in 1970, the Living Memorial was built - immortal, in honor of the workers of the DMZ who died in the Great Patriotic War.

[1] In August 1997, the plant was included in the list of enterprises of strategic importance for the economy and security of Ukraine.

[10] In 1998, for the first time, the plant was certified as a manufacturer of steel and semi-finished products from it (slabs and open-hearth ingots from carbon and carbon-manganese steel grades of normal and increased strength) according to the rules of the English Lloyd's Register.

The company specializes in the production of: Slabs made of normal strength marine structural steel grades GL-A and GL-B are certified according to the rules of Deutsche Lloyd.

[13] In June 2016, the leadership of the unrecognized DPR introduced external management at the plant, by which time its communications and a significant part of the equipment had become unusable due to repeated shutdowns and long downtime.

From March to August 2020, the plant suspended work due to a shortage of raw materials.

The Museum of the History of Donetsk Metallurgical Plant was created in 1955, and it is located in the Technology House.

[19] On June 17, 2004, a children's playground "City of Smiles" was opened in the park area of the plant.

[20] In the "City of Smiles" a sports area and playground, a railway for children, as well as a zoo were arranged, which contained a mouflon, a Bactrian camel, a pony, a donkey, a collared peccary, a raccoon, a red-headed duck, a chubataya duck, a mandarin duck, a wood duck, a pechanka, a Muscovy duck, a common pochard, a coypu, a rhea ostrich, a bush wallabi, a macaque monkey, a rhesus monkey, a Romanian pheasant, a trogopan pheasant, chickens, a golden pheasant, a royal pheasant, a common peacock, a guinea fowl, gray nymphs, rose-ringed parakeets, a demoiselle crane, kings, strassers, pigeons, pectoral sandpiper, trumpeters, a porcupine, a Cameroon goat, a llama, a spotted deer, a European fallow deer, a Barbary sheep, a savannah zebra, and an American bison.