Від Краматорська до Яготина: бізнес-історія одного товариства сліпих

26.09.2026, 08:00◉ 02 min readEditorial team “SHCHO STALOSIA”

"Я з державою в ці ігри не граю. Так директор Краматорського учбово-виробничого підприємства Українського товариства сліпих Юрій Шугаров відповідає на запитання про державну компенсацію за облаштування робочих місць для людей з інвалідністю.

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Від Краматорська до Яготина: бізнес-історія одного товариства сліпих

He has about half of such employees, but this program has never been used.

In Soviet times, the success of such an enterprise was measured not only by production. Employees were given apartments, people received an average salary, went to camp sites, worked in clubs and various social infrastructure.

The Ukrainian Society for the Blind (UTOs), a structural unit of which includes a Kramatorsk enterprise, arose before the Second World War. It spread to different regions of the country and created its own enterprises.

Initially, wooden boxes and brushes for painting were made there.

When Shugarov's parents worked at the enterprise, there were 400 people there. The heads and employees of the accounting department were also sighted. The company produced chains for tying livestock, control units for the air conditioner plant and Christmas tree garlands.

Context

After the collapse of the USSR, the company reduced production, lost orders, and after the outbreak of the great war left Kramatorsk. It produces corrugated cardboard, although it began with chains for tying cattle.

Kramatorsk Training and Production Enterprise UTOS traces its history back to 1954. "It was opened by people who came from the war, lost their eyesight, health, children of the war, victims. My mother and father worked all their lives at the Kramatorsk enterprise, "says its director Yuri Shugarov.