The "Baki Fahlasi" machine-building plant is a large-scale specialized enterprise producing oil field equipment and also consumer goods.
    The "Baki Fahlasi" machine-building plant belongs to the State Concern "Azneftkhimmash". It was founded in 1900 in territory of the section 101 of the Sbunchi settlement, Balakhano-Sabunchi district of Baku? on the basis of small workshop that belonged to the former oil firm "Benkendorf". Usually, workshops were used for simple repair works oil equipment and met requirements of the rapidly developing oil industry of Baku.
    The workshops created in 1900 were used exclusively for the repair of oil field equipment and didn't influence Azerbaijan economy in anyway before new equipment came from abroad. As soon as the XI-th Red Army occupied Baku and the Soviet Goverment was established the mechanical shops of the "Benkendorf" firm were nationalized as private? and then were included into the "Azneftcom". IOn May 1928, the machanical shops got a new name - mechanical shops "Bakinskiy Rabochiy", and in November 1929? they were reorganized to a plant and called the Machine-Building Plant "Bakinskiy Rabochiy".
    During the last 103 years, the "Bakinskiy Rabochiy" plant has traveled a long development road these from small workshops with limited resources to large-scale enterprise making a strong contribution to the economy of the Azerbaijan Republic.
    The plant's activity historically can be divided into 5 halting places:
    The 1st halting place - 1900-1920 covers the period beginning with the creation of the "Benkendorf" firm shops until the establishment of the Soviet Goverment in Azerbaijan/ Its characteristic feature is that shops activity met financial interests of the firm and in the ebd was directed to the maximal extraction and oil sell with minimal expenditure.
    The 2nd halting place - 1920-1941 - pre-war period is, the period characterized by the establishment of home machine-building and appearence on the front line of world science and engineering.
    The 3rd halting place - 1941-1945 - the war period is the period of production of armament.
    The 4th halting place - 1945-1991 - the post-war period is characterized by the steady rising of production power, increase of the ready production output volume, the gradual improvement of technical-economical indexes, the development of quality and the expansion of the manufactured article nomenclature.
    The 5th halting place - from 1991 till now, i.e. the period of the independence of the Azerbaijan Republic, the transition to marketing is characterized by multiple-discipline activities.