The founding date of the cultural center is considered to be December 9, 1946, when a trade union club was established on the basis of a cartridge factory. In 1951, the Chelyabinsk Mechanical Plant (ChMZ) Palace of Culture named after I.V. Stalin was built according to the design of architect M.V. Bratsev, and its opening took place on November 7, 1951. In 1952, a cinema projection system called "Rodina" (Motherland) came under the management of the Palace of Culture. In 1953, the Palace of Culture received the status of a Culture and Recreation Park. In the mid-1950s, it was renamed to the OZK-17 Palace of Culture. After the opening of the Palace of Culture, a monument to I.V. Stalin stood on the adjacent square on Sovetskaya Street. In 1962, a bronze monument to V.I. Lenin, which is a regional architectural heritage monument, was erected on the square near the Palace of Culture.