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Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant
Iron foundry and ironmaking plant were founded by Akinfiy Demidov in 1725 in the city of Nizhny Tagil on the Ural mountains. Iron ore had been transported by Visokogorskiy mine and copper by Mednorudyanskiy mine, both of them located in Nizhny Tagil.
In 1733, 8 years after the plant was founded, the facility included: blast furnace plant with 4 blast furnaces, hammer factory, forge, brass foundry with 2 brass melting furnaces. In 1737 the number of workers was 657, in 1795 it reached 2586…
In the middle of the 18th century plant was producing about 820 tons of iron and 2460 tons of cast iron every year. In the middle of 19th century it counted 2460 and 16380 respectively. Since then numbers are only growing…