Beloretsk

Beloretsk is a metropolis inside the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, positioned at the Belaya River, 245 kilometers from Ufa. Town-factories have been a unusual phenomenon within the metropolis-making plans in Russia within the 18th and 19th centuries. Beloretsk Iron Factory turned into constructed in 1762-1767 with the aid of traders I. B. Tverdyshev and I. S. Myasnikov, who bought 170,041 desiatinas of land from Bashkirs of Belokatayskaya Volost. Builders and first people of the manufacturing facility were bought serfs from Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Penza, and Ryazan Governorates. Beloretsk itself was based as a manufacturing facility agreement in 1762.

A Bulletin of 1776 says that the Beloretsk Iron Factory become built in 1762 and had two blast furnaces and 14 sledge-hammers. However, the first fusion of solid iron turned into recorded as being finished in 1767. In 1777, the manufacturing unit produced extra iron than any other manufacturing unit in Russia. Productive potential of the manufacturing facility become 122,500 poods 2,000 metric tons of cast iron and 80,000 poods 1,300 metric heaps of iron consistent with year. There were 840 male people on the factory. The village of Lomovka changed into based within the region of Beloretsk. The name of the village came from the name of the career of the folks that lived there. They all were draymen who provided raw substances for the manufacturing unit. Factory peasants also lived inside the village of Arskaya, situated 8 miles from their work location.