Mykhailo and Oleksandra met at Zaporizhstal and now work side by side at the plant.
The plant has seen hundreds of stories of steel love that started within its walls. For more than 90 years, Zaporizhstal employees not only connected their professional life with the plant, but also fell in love and created strong families.
One of the love stories – the Vershynins – began 12 years ago in the Railway Transport Department of Zaporizhstal. A young girl, Oleksandra, came to the plant immediately after studying to build a career, develop in the profession and ensure her stable future. But at Zaporizhstal, she found something more – getting to know her future husband Mykhailo.
"Immediately after graduating from the metallurgical college, I came to work in the railway transport department. At that time, Mykhailo worked here as a train dispatcher, and it was love at first sight. He helped me study the first serious job in my life, always supported me, was there for me. We met a year after and got married," says Oleksandra.
Today, Mikhailo Vershynin is a senior shift dispatcher of the plant, coordinates the work of services and departments. The man is sure: metallurgy united his and his wife's hearts forever.
"When you both work at a plant, it brings you together because you are doing a common job. Not only in work, but also in life, Sasha and I are "on the same wavelength," says Mykhailo.
The Vershynins are raising a 9-year-old daughter who is proud of her parents and their work.
"At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, my daughter and I left because war is stressful for children. It was the uncertainty, we were all scared, but after less than six months we realised that living apart was even more devastating, and that we needed to be together. The situation in the city had already become more or less stable, and we returned home," Oleksandra recalls.
Since then, Oleksandra and Mykhailo have been inseparable. It is the married couple of metallurgists who share: years together have taught them to listen and hear each other, to support and care for their couple constantly in moments of happiness and times of trial.
