he firstborn of the Tverdyshev mining and metallurgical empire on the territory of the modern Chelyabinsk region was the Katav-Ivanovsky Plant in 1757. Then Ust-Katav Ivanovsky was established in 1758, Yuryuzan-Ivanovsky in 1758, Simsky in 1761 and Minsk in 1779 for water. The basis of production was the production of pig iron at the Katav-Ivanovsky and Yuryuzan-Ivanovsky plants in four blast furnaces (two on each), which went to the conversion: flattened and unpinned, obtaining high-quality iron, both at the plants themselves, and at Ust-Katavsky, Minsk, etc. factories, which, if not sold out within the country, was sent abroad. The products produced at the factories were used, among other things, for the construction of the Resurrection Novodeichy Monastery, for covering the structures of which 40 thousand sheets of roofing sheet iron were required. Katav-Ivanovsky plant in 1763. I received an order for its production and sent 1,538 thousand sheets to Moscow by caravan the following year. The Tverdyshev plants produced 22-23 of all – Russian copper smelting, 12-13 of iron and 10 of cast iron. From their copper in Yekaterinburg, coins were minted at the mint and sent for export. In 2012, in honor of the 250th anniversary, a monument to Ivan Borisovich Tverdyshev was erected on the pre-factory square of the Beloretsk Metallurgical Plant. The activities of "Tverdyshev and Co. " are one of the examples of the successful development of the mining industry in the Southern Urals in the second half of the XVIII century. The reason for this lies in the presence in the region not only three indispensable conditions for the successful development and functioning of mining plants: the presence of rivers, forests and deposits of iron ores and copper, but also the commerc
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