Joint-Stock Company of the Nikolay-Pavdinsky Mountain District (the Charter was Highest approved on June 29, 1912 ) - was formed for the exploitation of gold and platinum mines, copper, nickel, iron ore deposits and deposits of other minerals, as well as the processing of forest materials belonging to the heirs of the Astrakhan merchant K. P Vorobyov in the Verkhotursky district of the Perm province (now the territory of the Novolyalinsky urban district of the Sverdlovsk region ). The central management bodies of the Company were the general meeting of shareholders, the Management Board and the Audit Commission. Fixed capital amounted to 12 million rubles. The board was located in St. Petersburg (M. Konyushennaya, 7) and consisted of 3-7 directors. Management of enterprises was carried out by the District Office and factory offices. By 1917 , the value of the property of the Company of the Nikolay-Pavdinsky Mountain District was determined at 19.7 million rubles. [2]
JSC Nikolay-Pavdinsky mountain district with mixed Russian-English capital, the main shareholders of which were Russian-English, Russian Commercial and Industrial and Russian-Asian banks, included Kytlymsky , Kamenushinsky and Konzhakovsky platinum mines, the Yekaterinburg refinery, as well as Lyalynsky and Lobvinsky forestry. [3]
In 1914 , the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire decided to build a “private refinery” in Yekaterinburg for refining Ural schlichite platinum . The owner of the plant is the joint-stock company of the Nikolay-Pavdinsky mountain district. The construction manager (hereinafter referred to as the plant manager) is mining engineer Nikolai Nikolayevich Baraboshkin , who was later called the father of Russian refining and one of the founders of the Ural school. After the revolution, under the leadership of Baraboshkin, the plant developed original methods for the refining of platinum group metals. Since its foundation, the plant has become a pioneer in the development of new areas of production and technology. He stood at the origins of Russian refining, he was the first to manufacture technical products from precious metals, the unique technologies created here were then replicated at other enterprises. October 23, 1916 is the day of the commissioning of the Yekaterinburg Refinery and at the same time the date of the start of industrial production of pure platinum metals in Russia. [4] On February 27, 1918 , No. 34, “Newspapers of the Workers 'and Peasants' Government,” the Decree of the Supreme Council of the National Economy “On Declaring State Property of the Nikolay-Pavdinsky Mountain District” was published.
See also
- Mining