ordered the commanders of the units stationed at Azovstal to save the lives of the personnel... Defenders of Mariupol are the heroes of our time”. Efforts were ongoing to evacuate the battalion from the bunkers. Rap group Kalush Orchestra, who represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 and later won the competition, called to save the soldiers at Azovstal onstage following their performance. This contributed to a sharp increase in global interest in Azovstal. On 17 May 2022, fifty-three seriously injured people surrendered and were evacuated from Azovstal to a medical facility in Novoazovsk and 211 people were taken to Olenivka through the humanitarian corridor, marking the end of the combat mission in Mariupol and the defense of the Azovstal plant after 82 days of fighting. Following the capture of Mariupol by the DPR and Russian forces and the surrender of remaining Ukrainian servicemen in Azovstal, Denis Pushilin announced that the plant would be demolished and that "other projects are planned in place of Azovstal". On February 25, 2023 Pushilin announced that a technopark would be built on the territory of Azovstal. Layout Production The works included coke production, a sinter plant, six blast furnaces and a steel-making complex. Management The steel plant operated as a subsidiary of Metinvest Holding LLC, in turn a subsidiary of Metinvest B.V., at the time of the siege. Rinat Akhmetov is co-owner of Metinvest B.V. Akhmetov supported the Ukrainian forces in the fight for Mariupol: “Mariupol has always been and will be a Ukrainian city. Ukrainians fiercely defend every inch of Ukrainian soil. I am proud that Azovstal is our bastion of resistance”. See also Azot (Sievierodonetsk), last Ukrainian position in Sievierodonetsk before its fall to Russia Azovstal railway station Metal production in Ukraine References External links Azovstal in figures 1930 establishments in Ukraine 2022 disestablishments in Ukraine Former buildings and structures in Ukraine Defunct companies of Ukraine Companies based in Mariupol Economy of Donetsk Oblast Metinvest Siege of Mariupol Steel companies of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Steel companies of Ukraine Buildings and structures destroyed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine