Asbest (city)

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Middle Urals , on the Bolshoi Reft River , 86 km northeast of Yekaterinburg .

The temperate continental climate prevails. The average annual rainfall is 503 mm. The least precipitation falls in March, with an average of 15 mm. Most precipitation falls in July, with an average of about 90 mm. The coldest month is January with an average temperature of -12.5 ° C, and the warmest is July, with an average temperature of 19.2 ° C.

Asbestos ore mining at the Bazhenovskoye deposit in the 19th century

In 1885, Alexei Ladyzhensky, a member of the Ural Society of Natural History Lovers, discovered an asbestos deposit in the Shchuchye Lake region ^{[3] [4]} . The field was named Bazhenovsky by the name of the nearest railway station Bazhenovo . The need of industry for asbestos necessitated the development of a deposit. Therefore, by 1889, several mines were opened and the village of Kudelka was founded. The work was conducted in an open way. Mostly manual labor prevailed. Groundwater interfered with ore mining, so for their pumping in 1896 the first steam engine for drainage appeared at the Poklevsky mine ^[3] .

In 1897, the first asbestos factory in Russia was opened in Kudelka ^[3] . Under this name, the October factory worked until 1956. .

The living and working conditions in the mines were very difficult. Among the workers, the so-called zimogors predominated - peasants from the surrounding villages who find work in the winter. As a rule, they lived either in the barracks, or in the so-called "huts" - small temporary huts built specifically for temporary residence. As a result, people often got sick, even an epidemic of typhoid fever occurred. In this regard, the question arose about opening a hospital. As a result, in 1898 the first hospital with 10 beds was opened at Voznesensky mine ^[3] .

In 1901, blasting began to be used in quarries .

In 1904, rail tracks were laid in the quarry for the removal of ore using Koppel horse-drawn trolleys , and in 1910 the first steam locomotives appeared ^[3] .

In 1905, the first school was opened in Kudelka. One of the first teachers was Faina Avvakumova - the mother of the artist Nikolai Avvakumov .

One of the problems of Koudelka was the actual isolation from the roads. The trip time to the Bazhenovo station was a whole day. A dirt road was built only in 1906. They could finally solve this problem only under the Soviet regime .

In 1910, Mechanical workshops were built at Voznesensky mine to repair equipment. December 13, 1936 by order of the People's Commissar of Heavy Industry of the USSR on the basis of the Central Ilyinsky Mechanical Workshop, Asboremont Plant was created ^[5] .

February 21, 1913 - A club with an auditorium with 400 seats was opened at Voznesensky mine. The largest asbestos production since the beginning of the development of the field was reached - 22.5 thousand tons. Asbestos produced in mines is exported to Germany , Austria , England , a small amount - to Japan ^[3] . The Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God was also built and consecrated.

In 1918, by a resolution of the Regional Council of Commissars of the Urals dated April 29, asbestos enterprises of the Bazhenovsky district were confiscated and declared property of the RSFSR . In 1922, the Republican State Trust Uralasbest was created, which was subsequently reorganized into the Uralasbokombinat (1933), into the Soyuzasbest trust (1939), into the Ural Asbestos Mining and Processing Plant Uralasbest (1965). With the creation of the trust, the mines of the Bazhenovsky , Nevyansky , Rezhevsky , Alapaevsky regions merge, and the systematic exploration and exploitation of the Bazhenovsky deposit begins. Asbestos enrichment plant No. 1 began operating in 1922, factory No. 2 Gigant in 1930, factory No. 3 Asbogiant in 1935, factory No. 5 in 1955, in 1956 and 1961. - I and II phases of factory No. 4, in 1969 - the world's largest asbestos-enrichment factory No. 6. By the beginning of the 1980s, factories No. 1, 2, 3 were decommissioned and demolished, and by the mid-1980s the construction of factory No. 7, however, the anti-asbestos campaign in the world and the economic recession caused by the collapse of the USSR led to its freezing .

There were no major battles in the Kudelka area during the Civil War . This is due to the relative isolation of the mines from the main roads. . 1919: July - after the liberation of the Urals from Kolchak at a meeting of workers organized by the Revolutionary Committee. September 9 - Komsomol organization created ^[3] .

In 1922, the first working club "Red Miner" and the first public library ^{[3] were} opened in the building of the former office of the Korevinsky mine.

In 1927, a narrow gauge railway to the Bazhenovo station was built. In 1936, it was changed to a wide gauge .

1929: February 24 - the Asbestov bureau of the VKP (b) collective was reorganized into the Asbestov RK of the VKP (b) with submission to the Sverdlovsk district VKP (b). May 1 - the first issue of the Asbestovsky Rabochy newspaper was released ^[3] .

In 1930, a geological museum and a mining college were opened in the city, in 1940 there was also a vocational school No. 12 (since 1963 - a city vocational school No. 48)

By a resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of June 20, 1933, the workers' settlement of Asbest was given the status of a city of regional subordination. In 1940, the city was provided with three-way power.

During the Great Patriotic War , many enterprises were evacuated to Asbest.

A network of narrow gauge railways was built for forest transportation. For 2011, some sections of these roads were preserved in the form of clearings, on some of them sleepers and rails were preserved. Logging was carried out by the inhabitants of the city and prisoners of war. In the city, several camps for prisoners of war were opened, in particular, one of them was located on the Teplyi Klyuch river, and a narrow gauge railway was laid to it for forest removal .

Hospitals were also opened for wounded soldiers. One of them was located in the building of school number 1. This building has survived to the present day, now it houses the office of the city water supply. There was also a hospital in the building of school number 26, to this day there is a school .

In 1941, the following were also evacuated to Asbest: the Leningrad Asbestos Plant , the Egorievsky Plant "Brake Tape" , the Yaroslavl Asbestos Plant , the Leningrad Mica Factory , the Kharkov Battery Plant and the Kharkov Calorifer Plant ^[6] . The newly created plant (now the Ural Auto-Textile Products Plant OJSC (UralATI Plant was named in 1942)) began producing asbestos fabrics and packings, clutch discs, threads and cords in September. In 1943, the plant started production of paronite on equipment evacuated from the besieged Leningrad of Leningrad , the production of which completely began to meet the needs of the defense industry. In 1945, the UralATI plant staff was transferred to eternal storage, the handed over Red Banner of the GKO USSR handed in 1943. In 1958, the plant began production of ferronite , brake bands and pads (automobile and railway). In 1976, the production of non-woven fabric (PNAH-1K, AT-7, AT-19) began for the first time in the country. In 2004, the production of polymer materials and bags from them was launched. In 2005, the registered trademark “UrTex” (from “ural textile” - Ural textile) under which asbestos-free thermal insulation materials are produced.

In 1944, an orphanage was opened in Asbest ^[3] .

During the war, thousands of asbestos went to the front, many were awarded military awards, and six people were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union .

In 1946, the Bazhenov exploration party was formed. In 1950, the All-Union Research and Design Institute of Asbestos Industry was established on the basis of the Central Research Laboratory in Asbest.

On February 1, 1963, the Council of Deputies of Workers of the City of Asbest was transferred to the subordination of the Sverdlovsk Regional Council of Deputies of Workers ^[7] .

In 1974, a dental clinic and a crushed stone plant were built. The concert hall of the music school has opened. A new building of the central city library has opened ^[3] .

On November 1, 1990, an explosion occurred in the explosives production workshop. A large funnel formed at the crash site. The condensate pumping station and refueling complex were completely destroyed. Also, the administrative building and the main building of the ATP garage, the fire pump, compressor room with substation, the central warehouse, and the machine repair workshop were severely damaged. Killed 16 people. The causes of the explosion have not been established to this day. .

From 1992 to 2009 The 12th separate special-purpose brigade of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was deployed in the city.

The Poremit workshop for the production of explosives was built in 1994 .

In 1997, a new Asbest-Beloyarsky highway was opened. Closed factory number 5 .

In 2002, the city appeared mobile communication

In 2002, the first subscriber was connected to the broadband Internet access of the company Intersat LLC

In 2004 OJSC Asbestov Magnesium Plant was established to process dumps of asbestos factories.

In 2005, a new well was drilled at the asbestos water intake .

In 2009, a boxer from Asbest Yegor Mekhontsev won the World Cup among oil countries ^[8]

In 2009, Asbestos was included in the program of federal support for single-industry towns. ^[9]

In 2010, the holy relics were discovered in the Vladimir Church ^[10]

In 2010, a museum of Orthodoxy was created in Asbest ^[11]

In 2010, the Russian Magnesium project was frozen ^[12]

In 2011, work was completed on the construction of the highway from Yekaterinburg to Tyumen (a new direction) bypassing the village of Beloyarsky. This reduced the travel time from Asbest to Yekaterinburg ^[13]

In 2011, UralATI changed its shareholders ^[14]

In 2011, in the village. The white stone opened the Cossack farm. ^[15]

in 2011 at the Mariinsky mine resumed mining of emeralds ^[16]

In 2012, an ice palace opened in Asbest ^[17]

In 2012, a batch of emeralds from the Malyshevsky deposit was first put up for public auction ^[18]

In 2013, Asbest buses provided navigators ^[19] .

In 2013, Malyshevsk Utility Enterprise LLC was declared bankrupt ^[20]

In 2013, the Arbitration Court in the Urals introduced a monitoring procedure at Russian Magnesium OJSC ^[21]

In 2013, asbestosman Behruz Bafoev broke the world record for Griffin Yeager USA at the Russian Open Territorial Powerlifting and Bench Press Championships. ^[22]

In 2014, the city switched to a two-headed management system . ^{[23] [24]}

In 2014, asbestos boycotts payments for overhaul ^[25]

In 2015, Vladimir Toporkov, an asbestos man with a musculoskeletal system lesion, won international table tennis competitions in Argentina ^[26]

In 2015, deputies of the Asbestov City Duma voted for the head of the city to be appointed governor of the region ^[27]

In 2016, Lyceum No. 9 became one of the best schools in Russia ^[28]

In 2016, a book was published by the Reptinskaya pedagogue Nina Barkhatova ^[29]

In 2016, a memorial plaque was installed at school No. 30 in honor of a former student, Alexei Vakhlov, who died in December 1995 in Chechnya. and posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. ^[thirty]

In 2016, Anastasia Kirpichnikova, a swimmer from Asbest, won a gold medal at an international tournament. ^[31]

In 2017 in Asbest opened the first recycling center from the time of the USSR ^[32]

In 2017, asbestovets - Ivan Tumashev became the world champion in karate ^[33]

In 2017, the book by Alexander Kopyrin “Asbestos. Koudelka. Mine " ^[34]

In 2017, the title "Mrs. Yekaterinburg-2017" was received by Asbest native Yana Vinarskaya ^[35]

In 2018, OJSC Uralasbest begins production of new building materials ^[36]

As of January 1, 2019, the city was in 256th place out of 1,115 ^[55] cities of the Russian Federation in terms of population ^[56] .

• Uralasbest OJSC ( open-pit mining of asbestos )
• UralATI OJSC (production of asbestos technical products)
• Zarechny OJSC (production of building bricks and crystal products)
• FORES LLC (production of magnesium silicate proppants)

The turnover of enterprises and organizations for mining and manufacturing in 2007 amounted to 7 billion rubles .

Bazhenov Asbestos Field

The deposit was discovered by a surveyor of the Ural mountain government, Ladyzhensky Alexei Pavlovich, on December 24, 1884, while measuring land for the development of alluvial gold on the Gryaznushka River. Prior to the official discovery of the deposit, the local population knew about the existence of asbestos (mountain tow ) in the area, which is why the area around Lake Shchuchye was called Kudelny bog . On January 2, 1885, an application was opened for the discovery of a mine . The development of the field was officially authorized by the Mining Department on June 20, 1889. In 1889, the mines (at that time 9) were purchased by Baron E. A. Gerard de Sukanton . In 1897, the first Russian asbestos enrichment factory was opened at one of the mines ^{[57] [58]} .

The Bazhenovsky field of chrysotile asbestos is the largest in the world by reserves. It is located on a lenticular hyperbasite massif, elongated submeridionally for 28 km with a width of up to 4 km with a surface area of ​​about 75 km ² . From the west and north the massif borders on gabbroids , from the east and south - on granitoids . The field is represented by branching dikes of granites and diorites divided into blocks by differently oriented zones of faults and crushing. In the central parts, the blocks are composed of peridotites , and closer to the fault zones by schistilized serpentinites , chrysotile asbestos , talcochlorites and talcocarbonates . Chrysotile asbestos mineralization is presented in the form of veins and a network of asbestos veins with a width of 2 to 50 mm. 27 asbestos-containing deposits with an industrial content of chrysotile asbestos (more than 2% of the rock volume), with a length of 200 m to 4.5 km, a thickness of 20 to 1.4 km, a depth of dozens to 1100 meters from the surface, have been explored in the field. The reserves of the field as of 1998 amounted to about 70 million tons. The development is carried out in an open way, with ledges 10-15 m high. The quarry depth is currently 350-400 m, the height of external dumps is up to 125 m. During the development, part of the residential and industrial buildings of the city of Asbest were demolished and the city was divided into two parts, in the zone the quarry also got Lake Shchuchye, and Lake Talitsky is filled up with dumps.

Ores are cross-fibrous, in a smaller amount there are also longitudinal-fiber, asbestos. The length of the asbestos fiber of the deposit is up to 50-60 mm, very rarely reach 150 mm ^{[59] [60]} .

In addition to chrysotile asbestos, over 120 minerals are found in the Bazhenovskoye deposit . Встречаются голубой брусит , гроссуляр от светло-розовых до оранжево-красных расцветок, хромистый гроссуляр интенсивно зелёного цвета, везувиан , хлориты , кальцит , арагонит , разноокрашенный диопсид , бадделеит , пектолит , диаллагит , верлит , вебстерит , микродиорит , макрогаббро , диорит-порфиры , диабаз , диабазовые порфиры , плагиоаплит , альбитит , татариновит , нефрит , молибденит , маухерит , титанит , касаткинит , ссайбелиит , клинохлор , пирит и другие. На месторождении впервые на Урале обнаружены артинит , бруньятеллит , герхардит , гидроксиапофиллит , гидроталькит , годлевскит , девиллин , ксонотлит , ликазит , пироаурит , пломбьерит , розенханит , стивенсит , шорломит . Также встречается самородное золото и серебро .

Город соединён железнодорожной веткой с Транссибирской магистралью . Длина пути — 36 километров. Ветка электрифицирована. Рядом с городом расположены железнодорожные станции СвЖД Асбест и Изумруд . Станция Асбест ныне является конечной для пассажирского движения и связывает железнодорожную сеть общего пользования с ведомственной электрифицированной железнодорожной сетью ОАО «Ураласбест», которая также электрифицирована и по которой осуществляются грузоперевозки породы из асбестового карьера промышленными тяговыми агрегатами. Ранее железная дорога имела продолжение до посёлка Рефтинский и связывалась с другой железнодорожной веткой. От станции Асбест в южном направлении осуществляется пассажирское сообщение электропоездами до Екатеринбурга и других городов Свердловской области. Обратные электропоезда из Екатеринбурга идут только до станции Изумруд, и до станции Асбест не доходят. В виду удалённости обеих станций от жилых кварталов города до ближайшей к городу станции Изумруд ходит автобус №5, подвязанный к утренней и вечерней электричке. До станции Асбест и расположенного рядом с ней посёлка "101 квартал", из города ходит автобус №2а.

В северном направлении от станции Асбест имеются также грузовые станции Восточная и Северная .

Также в городе есть Асбестовское пассажирское автотранспортное предприятие (АПАТП). Оно осуществляет внутригородское, пригородное и междугороднее сообщение. Отправление практически всех маршрутов осуществляется с автовокзала ^[61] .

Городские маршруты ^[62] .

• № 1 Автовокзал — посёлок Ново-Кирпичный.
• № 2а Автовокзал — 101 квартал.
• № 5 Автовокзал — станция Изумруд. Ранее ходил до фабрики № 5.
• № 10 Автовокзал — посёлок Папанинцев.

Закрытые городские маршруты.

• № 2 Автовокзал — 101 квартал.
• № 3 Автовокзал — Молокозавод.
• № 4 Автовокзал — Больничный городок. Закрыт в 2007 году. Ныне обслуживается маршрутными такси.
• № 6 Автовокзал — Фабрика № 6.
• № 7 Автовокзал — Черемшанская плотина. Закрыт в 2015 году, ныне обслуживается маршрутными такси.
• № 8 Автовокзал — Фабрика № 4.
• № 9 Автовокзал — посёлок Ново-Окунёво.
• № 9э Автовокзал — Северный горный цех.
• № 11 Кольцевой. Осуществлялся в 1980-х годах.

Пригородные маршруты ^[62] .

• № 101 Автовокзал — посёлок имени Малышева .
• № 102 Автовокзал — посёлок Белокаменный .
• № 103 Автовокзал — посёлок Рефтинский .
• № 104 Автовокзал — посёлок Шамейский .
• № 110 АПАТП — посёлок Красноармейский .

Междугородные маршруты ^[62] .

• № 125 Асбест — Заречный .
• № 540 Асбест — Шадринск . Ранее выполнялся до Кургана.
• № 577 Асбест — Челябинск .
• № 700 Асбест — Екатеринбург .
• № 702 Асбест — Каменск-Уральский .
• № 706 Асбест — Тюмень .
• № 707 Асбест — Ирбит .
• № 708 Асбест — Нижний Тагил .
• № 750 Посёлок имени Малышева — Екатеринбург . Ныне выполняется частной фирмой-перевозчиком.
• № 759 Посёлок Рефтинский — Екатеринбург.

На линиях работают автобусы ЛиАЗ-5256 , Киа Гранбирд, Хёндэ Юниверс. Ранее в эксплуатации находились автобусы ЛиАЗ-677 , ЛАЗ-695Н , Икарус-280 (с 2010 года эксплуатировались только в летнее время), Икарус-250 , Икарус-256 , Икарус-260 .

Большинство автобусов АПАТП находится в плохом техническом состоянии. Закупки новых автобусов осуществляются в недостаточном объёме. Это привело к прекращению движения по маршрутам № 2 и № 4. Также существенно сокращено количество рейсов на действующих маршрутах ^[63] . Автобусный парк стремительно сокращается из-за физического старения и износа автобусов.

Кроме АПАТП пригородные маршруты обслуживает фирма «Фаэтон». Осуществляются рейсы

• Асбест — посёлок имени Малышева.
• Асбест — посёлок Рефтинский.

С 2011 года эти рейсы отправляются с асбестовского автовокзала. Кроме них есть рейс от станции Изумруд.

Также в городе развивается сеть маршрутных такси. Есть маршруты, дублирующие автобусные, такие как 1к и 2а, 102а и 102б ^[62] . Кроме того, есть кольцевой маршрут, восстановлены и осуществляются маршруты № 3 и № 9. С 2011 года все маршрутные такси отправляются от асбестовского автовокзала .

В городе развито дошкольное и школьное образование. На 2011 год действуют 24 детских сада, 15 средних школ и межшкольный учебный комбинат ^[64] . Также действуют два профессиональных училища — № 17 и № 48. Действует Асбестовский горный техникум и Асбестовский колледж искусств. Кроме того, в Асбесте есть филиалы высших учебных заведений: УрГПУ , УрФУ , УГГУ , УГСХА .

В Асбесте действуют две клинические больницы, детская больница, психоневрологический диспансер и несколько поликлиник. Развита сеть аптек. Действуют стоматологическая поликлиника и ветеринарная лечебница .

в 1991 году была открыта Церковь «Любовь Христа» .

в 1995 году был открыт Храм Святого князя Владимира .

Наиболее распространённой конфессией является православие. Действуют два храма: Князе-Владимирский храм и Храм в честь иконы Божией Матери «Умиление» Серафимо-Дивеевской . Также существуют довольно значительные мусульманская и протестантские общины. Имеется мечеть.

В Асбесте родились:

• Николай Аввакумов (1908—1945) — советский художник - график ^[65] . ^[66]
• Алексей Махнёв (1921—1984) — сержант Рабоче-крестьянской Красной Армии , участник Великой Отечественной войны , Герой Советского Союза ( 1944 ).
• Герман Ситников (1932) — заслуженный артист России , балетмейстер -репетитор Большого Театра ^[67] .
• Юрий Солдатов (1940) — советский и российский скульптор. Заслуженный художник Республики Башкортостан (1999). Член Союза художников СССР (РФ) с 1978 года .
• Алексей Чечулин (1943—1995) — советский и российский поэт , журналист , краевед , член Союза писателей СССР ^[68] .
• Николай Крупин (1953) — российский государственный деятель, член Правительства Свердловской области — управляющий Южным управленческим округом Свердловской области (с 2011), бывший заместитель Председателя Палаты представителей Законодательного собрания Свердловской области (2000—2004).
• Виктор Басаргин (1957) — российский государственный деятель, бывший губернатор Пермского края (2012—2017), бывший министр регионального развития РФ (2008—2012), член Наблюдательного совета Государственной корпорации « Ростехнологии » ^[69] .
• Владимир Власов (1958) — российский государственный деятель, депутат Законодательного Собрания Свердловской области (с 2016), бывший председатель Правительства Свердловской области (в 2012) ^[70] , бывший глава муниципального образования «Город Асбест» (1996—2005).
• Ольга Соловьёва (1958) — российский юрист, председатель Арбитражного суда Ростовской области ^[71] .
• Александр Козлов (1961—2001) — российский музыкант и композитор рок-группы «Агата Кристи» .
• Юрий Молодченко (1963) — российский государственный деятель, заместитель губернатора Ростовской области.
• Александр Танцырев (1968—2016) — российский музыкант поэт и композитор тяжёлой музыки. Основатель групп «Khnuth» и «Волчий Источник». ^[72]
• Gleb Samoilov (1970) - Russian musician, poet and composer of the rock groups Agatha Christie and The Matrixx
• Ilya Markov (1972) - Russian athlete, silver medalist of the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics in 20 km race walking ^[73] , European champion in 1998 walking race in 20 km and world champion in 1999 race in 20 km.
• Alexendre Remezov (1973) - Russian artist, member of the board of the Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Union of Artists of Russia, chairman of the youth section, associate professor of the Ural State Academy of Architecture and Art. ^[74]
• Yana Moreva (Tabachnik) (1975) - Russian flutist, soloist of the BÖHM quartet (Boehm quartet) ^[75] .
• Alexander Kolesnichenko (1978) - Russian journalist, former special correspondent for the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty , now an employee of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation .
• Egor Mekhontsev (1984) - Russian athlete, champion of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London in boxing in the category up to 81 kg, Honored Master of Sports , European Boxing Champion of 2008 and 2010 , world boxing champion of 2009 .

In Asbest lived in a given period (born in other cities):

• Alexey Ladyzhensky (1852-1919) - the discoverer of the world’s largest Bazhenovsky chrysotile asbestos deposit, worked in the village of Kudelka in 1889-1914 ^[76] ;
• Lazar Kaganovich (1893-1991) - a major Soviet state and party leader of the Stalin era, lived and worked in Asbest in 1957-1961, served as director of the Soyuzasbest mining and processing trust, under his leadership in 1958 he managed to surpass the trust in developing asbestos, the largest producer of asbestos in the capitalist world, Canada ^[77] ;
• Fedor Semenov (1904-1980) - Soviet party and statesman, lived and worked in Asbest in 1931-1938 and 1949-1980, in 1937-1938 he held the position of 1st secretary of the Asbestov city committee of the CPSU (b) , and in 1938 year was and. about. Chairman of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Executive Committee , in 1949-1967 he worked at various enterprises in Asbest;
• Alexander Korolev (1909-1983) - Soviet mining engineer, specialist in the field of technology for the extraction and concentration of asbestos ores , lived and worked in Asbest in 1932-1983 as a designer, chief engineer, director of the asbestos-concentrating factory, managing the Soyuzasbest trust , in 1966-1983 - Director of the Uralasbest Combine, Hero of Socialist Labor (1971);
• Ernst Unknown (1925–2016) - a famous Soviet and American sculptor, in 1956, at the invitation of GULAG officers, he lived and worked for a short time in Asbest, creating the sculptures “Science” and “Art” known to the townspeople near the City Palace of Culture, built a year earlier by the Gulag prisoners ^{[78] [79]} ;
• Alexander Gusev (1943) - Soviet party and statesman, engineer, since 1968 he has been living and working in Asbest, in 1986-1990 he held the position of 1st Secretary of the Asbestov City Committee of the CPSU , in 1990-1993 - Chairman of the Asbest City Council, as well as in 1990 - 1st Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU , since 1993 he has been heading various enterprises of the city;
• Andrey Mashnin (1963) - Russian poet and rock musician, leader and vocalist of the Mashnin Band band ( St. Petersburg ), who lived in Asbest for some time;
• Vadim Samoilov (1964) - Russian musician and composer of the rock band Agatha Christie , who, unlike his younger brother, was born in Sverdlovsk , only later his parents moved with him to Asbest, since 2008 - member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation .
• Andrei Sadakov (1970) - moderator of the program for the development of single-industry towns at Skolkovo School of Management.

• Emerald Mines of the Urals

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• A brief overview of land development around the future city of Asbest in the XVII — XIX centuries
• Antonov A.A. Mineralogy of rhodite of the Bazhenovsky hyperbasite massif // St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2003, 128 p.
• Erokhin Yu.V. Hypergenic copper minerals in gabbroids of the Bazhenovskoye deposit // Ural Summer Mineralogical School-96 (materials). Yekaterinburg: Publishing House of the UGGAA. 1996.P. 180-183.
• Zadov A.E., Chukanov N.V., Organova N.I., Kuzmina O.V., Belakovsky D.I., Nechay V.G., Sokolovsky F.S., Kuznetsova O. Yu. Comparative study of rosenhanite from California and the Urals, refinement of the formula // Zapiski RMO, 2000, 119, 2. p. 85 - 96.
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• Pekov I.V. Chukanov N.V. Filinchuk Y. E. Zadov A.E. Kononkova N.N. Epanchintsev S.G. Kaden P. Kuttser A. Göttliher J. Kasatkinit Ba2Ca8B5Si8O32 (OH) 3 · 6H2O - a new mineral from the Bazhenovskoye field (Middle Ural, Russia) // ZRMO, 2012, 141 (3), 39-49. Notes of RMO, 2012, 141 (3), pp. 39-49.

• Asbest city
• GKU SB "State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region." Directory of administrative territorial division. Asbestos
• Asbestos in the encyclopedia "My city"
• Description of the coat of arms of Asbest
• Description of the flag of Asbest
• Mountain Flax City
• Asbestos Encyclopedia (inaccessible link)
• Bazhenovsky asbestos quarry
• MaxZ.Ru website Asbestos news with photo reports from events
• Asbestos Information Guide
• Asbest information portal
• Included in the 15 dirtiest cities in Russia according to environmentalists