Yartsov, Anikita Sergeevich

Born in the family of a mountain officer. The Yartsev family came from Verkhoturian nobles .

After graduating from the Yekaterinburg Mining School, he was the first of Yekaterinburg students to enter Moscow University (graduated in 1762).

In the initial period of his service, Yartsev supervised the construction of three private factories in the Western Urals, in the Vyatka province of the Kazan province (in 1762 - the Shermeitsky and Klimkovsky plants, in 1764 - the Kholunitsky factory ) ^[2] .

In 1771, with the assignment of the rank of Bergmeister, he was appointed to the Olonets mining plants . From 1772 to 1782 he headed the breech Aleksandrovsky cannon factory . A. S. Yartsov personally planned and began building the center of the Petrozavodsk Sloboda , the future capital of the Olonets province , located along the Neglinka and Lososinka rivers. Anikita Yartsov planned and built the city center - the Round (Circular) Square and the main streets ^[3] .

In 1782, he was appointed mining adviser to the St. Petersburg Treasury. In 1783-1784 - Director of the Higher Petersburg Mining School ^[4] .

In 1785 he was appointed vice-governor of the Vladimir province .

The first of Yekaterinburg residents Anikita Yartsev reached the rank of general (in civilian timesheets).

In April 1797, Anikita Sergeyevich Yartsev arrived in Perm , where he took over the management of the Ural factories from the Mining Expedition , taking the post of chief chief of the Chancellery of the Main Board of Management, which was restored by Emperor Paul I. In May, Anikita Sergeyevich arrived in Yekaterinburg, from where until March 1802 he led the activities of the restored organization. Since 1799, he led the Mining Council of the Ural factories (1799-1802).

The Ural historian N. S. Korepanov called A. S. Yartsev “the last mountain commander who kept the traditions of Georg Gennin and Vasily Tatishchev ” and noted that he was a very systematic person who did everything in his activities in stages.

He was a member of the special committee for the preparation of the draft Mountain Regulations (1804-1806).

In 1807-1819, A. N. Yartsev wrote the 8-volume “Russian Mountain History” (preserved in the manuscript). The materials for its writing Yartsev began to purposefully collect in 1797 on behalf of the president of the Berg Collegium M.F.Soymonov .

The name of A. S. Yartzov is associated with the introduction of a number of innovations in metallurgical production - cupolas , reciprocating blow furnaces, instruments for measuring the strength of cast iron.

He was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir 4 degrees (1784), St. Vladimir 3 degrees, (1794), St. Anna 2 degrees (1798).

Brothers A. S. Yartsova:

• Nikolai Sergeevich Yartsov (1745—?), From 1756 he served as a test student at the Yekaterinburg laboratory, from 1758 - at the Moscow Mining Office, non-master-master-master (1760), from 1773 - berggesh in ore mining at the Olonets factories, in 1775 - gittenwerther, from 1776 to 1781 he was a mine surveyor in the office of the Olonets factories, from 1782 he was a mine surveyor in the Lipetsk factory office, then he served in the Accounts Expedition of the Office of the main factory of the board (1797-1781), retired bergmeister (1801).
• Semyon Sergeevich Yartsov (1751—?), From 1760 he served as a test student in the Berg College, since 1773 - in the Alexander and Petrozavodsk offices of the Olonets mining plants, from 1802 he served as manager of the Kamensky Plant in the Urals.
• Peter Sergeevich Yartsov - non-commissioned master-master (1778), master-master (1780) of Petrozavodsk factory office.

Son of A.S. Yartsov:

• Nikolai Anikitovich Yartsov (1790—?), Served in the Department of Mining and Salt Affairs.

Son of S. S. Yartsov:

• Sergei Semenovich Yartsov (1785—?), From 1802 he served as a supervisor in the Kamensky plant in the Urals, from 1812 - at the Berezovsky plant, in 1835-1838 he served as a senior superintendent for the extraction and washing of gold sands in the district of Zlatoust factories in the rank of a surveyor of class 9 .

• Inscription of mountain Ural plants (1802)
• Experimental discussion of the harmful and beneficial dispositions of mining plants in the Urals (1804)
• Russian Mountain History in 8 volumes (1819)
• Note on earthquakes in the Middle Urals in the XVIII century.

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