Complex sentence: The beginnings of the organisation was in 1896 with the creation of a railway engineering workshop, the plant expanded in 1942 and gained its current importance when factories in the Ukraine (Luhanskteplovoz) and Leningrad were evacuated to beyond the Ural mountains during the second world war.
Split into simpler sentences: The beginnings of the organisation were in 1896 with the creation of a railway engineering workshop. The plant expanded in 1942 and gained its current importance when factories in the Ukraine (Luhanskteplovoz) and Leningrad were evacuated to beyond the Ural mountains during the second world war.