Some enterprises were forced to reform or supplement their production line during the war. In Mykolaiv, an enterprise that manufactured loft-style furniture now manufactures stoves that can be used for heating rooms and cooking.

Director of the company Natalya Nikolaienko told Suspilne about this.

The chimney has a draft-adjustable partition and a six-millimeter steel cooking surface with two sizes of cooking holes. There is also a retractable ashtray and grill grates. This is what the finished product looks like—the "Burzhuyka" metal stove.


The enterprise also manufactures furniture, such as school desks and tables for kindergarten students. However, such orders decreased with the beginning of the war, and taxes and wages must be paid to the workers, says Natalya Nikolayenko, the enterprise's director. Therefore, they decided to work on products that will be needed shortly.

Master at work. Photo: Oleksandr Gordienko/Mykolaiv Society

"Our stove is powerful enough and keeps heat well. When tested independently at our production, one load of firewood takes three hours. Then, the stove burns feet at a distance of two meters. It can be useful in the private sector, in the house, and in the field, where it will help the boys warm up. I think that this product will be in demand. We are now making them with stock in stock. There are already orders and miscalculations," says Natalya Nikolayenko.

If one worker works on the product, it takes a day to make one such stove. Mykola marks the necessary dimensions of the workpiece on a metal sheet. The part is cut with a plasma cutter. This is one of the stages of the technological process.

"The sheet is two, three, six. The pipe is one hundred. Here, it is 25 by 25. This is a radiator so there is a greater heat transfer," says Mykola.

In the adjacent room, Mykola's colleague cuts a profile pipe on a machine according to the predetermined size. Then, all these parts will be welded. After cleaning the welded seams, the product will be checked and given to the customer

We made the first stove in August. The price of such a stove is five thousand hryvnias*.

As of September 14, the company had already sold ten stoves, which civilians and volunteers bought for the military.