The project covered a large territory and fully changed the region's appearance.

[2] After the Russian-Japanese War the Russian Empire needed a new shipyard and everything that came with it: a harbour, a sea fortress, a ship factory.

The project was realized with technical and financial assistance of foreign capital from the French-Belgian company Schneider-Creusot.

The project covered a large territory and fully changed the region's appearance.

[2] Most of the buildings and constructions were designed according to the plans of the Russian architect Aleksandr Dmitriyev.

Originally, the complex had everything a person could need, including homes, a hospital, a diner, a church, a school, a cinema, a bakery, a post office, even a tramm was put up to work.

The most commonly built barrack had two stories and a corridor-based interior with rooms or apartments on both sides.

All houses were wooden, some of them had a brick hallway, those were planned for families, but more skilled workers moved in them instead.

[4] The Directors’, Engineers’ and Officers’ quarters, later called the “Professors’ Village” (Estonian: Professorite küla) was located on the southern side of the peninsula, on Süsta, Ketta and Kaluri streets.

The factory grounds were put in use again and the Tallinn University of Technology moved to the main building.

In addition, the new factory's workers were no longer housed there, so after the 1960s, the region suffered a rapid downfall.

[4] After Estonia regained its independence, the factory became one of the most important enterprises of the country and even now, approximatively 1000 people work in the production lines every day.