FC Silmash Kharkiv was an association football club of Ukrainian SSR and Soviet Union.
The club represented the German-owned engine factory Hellferich Sade (after its owner Max Helfferich, in Russian transliteration "Gelferikh") that existed since 1875 in Kharkiv and produced agricultural equipment.
According to the Russian newspaper "K Sportu", published by the Moscow Football League, on 1 March 1914 the club played at owned wonderful stadium with seating capacity of 10,000.
In 1936 the Sickle and Mallet Factory fielded another football team in the Soviet Group B championship called FC Silmash Kharkiv.
There is information that after World War II, FC Silmash Kharkiv was revived in lower league competitions participating sporadically at republican level.