The history of the ceramic plant in Sloviansk (in the Russian version Slaviansk) dates back to 1893, when three Polish entrepreneurs: Jan Dziewulski and brothers Józef and Władysław Lange founded the joint stock company Dziewulski and Lange. These businessmen already had extensive experience in the industry, as from 1883 they managed the plant in Opoczno, Poland. The company started its activity by buying a plot of land for the construction of a factory in the city of Slavyansk (Kharkiv Governorate), located near the railway line.
The Dziewulski and Lange plant, equipped with two steam engines, produced ceramic floor tiles. The company has received many medals and awards, incl. silver medal at the World Exposition in Paris in 1900. Despite the increasingly difficult situation in tsarist Russia at the beginning of the 20th century, in 1914 it was possible to produce 400,000. sq m of terracotta tiles. The end came in 1917, when a revolutionary committee assumed power in the company.
Production in the plant was resumed only in 1925, and a year later the name of the factory was changed to Terracotta Tiles Factory named Krupskaya. The tiles produced in Sloviansk decorated, among others, the Lenin's mausoleum or the Kazan Railway Station in Moscow. In 1934, the factory was fully electrified. During World War II, the plant was evacuated to the Kuybyshev oblast and switched to production for war purposes. During the German occupation, the factory buildings in Sloviansk were completely destroyed.
With the development of the factory's production, the kitchens and bathrooms of the inhabitants of the USSR changed. In the 1950s, the production of white 15 x 15 cm tiles began, and in the 1960s blue and green tiles were introduced. The latter survived in apartments until the end of the Soviet Union.
After the collapse of the USSR, the problem was the transition of the economy to market principles and breaking ties with other Soviet republics. In 2001, employment fell to 157 people. At that time, the factory already lost the financial liquidity.
