Plant-museum of the history of mining technology

Nizhny Tagil Ironworks was founded in 1725 by the Demidov dynasty. The plant included a full technological cycle of metal smelting - preparation of iron ore , charcoal , smelting of cast iron , iron and copper. The economic and repair services, the brick and sawmills, which operated the plant, also worked here. After the Novotagilsky Metallurgical Plant was commissioned at the Kuibyshev Plant, new blast furnace technologies were mastered to produce high-quality cast iron. During the Great Patriotic War, the plant produced ferrochrome and ferromanganese , as well as stainless tape for aircraft construction. In 1957, the plant them. Kuybysheva joined NTMK . The plant was one of the largest in Europe and worked until October 1987, when it was solemnly stopped. Symbolic keys to the old factory were handed over to the Nizhny Tagil Museum-Reserve of the mining business of the Middle Urals ^[1] .

The museum based on the closed factory was opened in January 1989. In 1992, the museum received part of the territory of the plant, including infrastructure and the surrounding historical zone. As a result, a museum complex of 30 hectares was formed.

The factory-museum consists of a number of expositions that show the main stages of metallurgical production: a blast furnace shop, a rolling mill, an open-hearth shop, an energy economy, metal machining and foundry equipment. There are also exhibitions of factory equipment and rolling stock of the 19th-20th centuries sample. The museum partially preserved the appearance of buildings of the 18th – 20th centuries, including a blast furnace and an open-hearth furnace , a water turbine and an overhead crane in 1892, water chests, a blast-furnace building of the beginning of the 19th century.

An exhibition of factory equipment demonstrates equipment samples from the 1920s and 1930s, as well as larch logs preserved from the moment of the dam and plant erection, raised during the dam reconstruction in 1992. The dam itself, built back in 1721 and repeatedly rebuilt, was also well preserved.

The museum includes (in brackets - the year of construction or last reconstruction):

• Blast-furnace shop (XVIII — XX centuries)
• Energy workshop (1913)
• Rolling shop (1902)
• Metalwork shop (1929)
• Leaf Shop (1927)
• Office repair and assembly shop (1930)
• Forge (XIX century.)
• Open-hearth workshop (1892)
• Factory Office (1840)
• Mechanical Factory (1840)
• Stable Courtyard (1828)
• Filling machine (1930)
• Equestrian area ^[2] .

The factory-museum is a monument of the industrial heritage of Russia of regional significance.

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  View of the factory museum from Fox Mountain

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  Steam engine 9P ^m in the territory of the plant

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  Blast furnace shop

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  Blast furnace skip lift

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  Bunker bunker overpass

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  Blast furnace foundry

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  Blast furnace ditches

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  Slag carrier

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  Open hearth furnace

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  Loading device of the open-hearth furnace

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  Filling platform of the open-hearth shop

• Plant-Museum in the open air in Nizhny Tagil (Neopr.) . Travel.ru. Date of treatment November 25, 2014.