Mazuyevsky Iron Works

The plant was located on the banks of the Mazuevka River, a right-hand tributary of the Sylva River , 20 kilometers from the village of Ust-Kishert and 40 miles southeast of the city of Kungur ^[1] , in the territory of the village of Mazuevka, Perm Territory .

Mazuyev Iron Works

In 1704, by decree of Peter I, the Ufa peasant Fyodor Ivanovich received permission to conduct ore prospecting in Kungursky district and in Siberia and to build plants for processing found ores at his own expense. F. I. Molodoy bought from a farmer M. Startsev ^{[2] a} water mill on the Mazuevka river and at its dam began construction of an iron-making plant with small furnaces. The resulting iron is compressed under a hammer, heating in other forges and forged into strips. The iron mine was located on Mount Sovetskaya ^[3] .

In 1707, with the money of merchants, a forge and 10 cheese-burning furnaces were built by the forces of hired peasants. The plant's capacity was supposedly 150 pounds of rich iron per week. In 1708, the town man P. Rastorguev in the Siberian order bought the right to mine ore in Kungur district for 5 years, depriving local peasant miners and the raw materials plant of the opportunity to mine it. F. Molodov also noted in his petitions that “many thieves burned up chopped coal firewood and coal holes, burn bars, tes, logs and other materials, cut coal wood idle to waste so that the factory was not at all” ^[4] .

In 1712, the “mill” factory dam was strengthened and extended to 80 meters. For the forging of the factory iron and the dummy iron acquired from the peasants, a molotovy barn with two water wheels, wooden furs, a hammer, 4 forges, as well as a coal, lime, ore, and fur shed were built at it.

In 1712, for the use of state money for personal purposes, F. I. Young was arrested and exiled to Tobolsk , and the plant was stopped and taken to the treasury ^[3] .

The work of the molotovy barn for the manufacture of strip iron was resumed several times. In 1715-1718, the plant was leased for 30 rubles a year from Stroganov's shopkeeper Sidor Belousov for the production of strip iron from purchased iron from the industries of peasant miners.

In 1718, the Kungur commandant Leonty Shokurov laid down a blast furnace at the dam, the smelting of iron in which ended unsuccessfully. Power of water was not enough for the hammers. The number of the plant was 50 local peasants and blacksmiths hired in the village of Pavlov in Nizhny Novgorod district.

In 1722-1725, by decree of Major-General Guning, the chief commander of the Ural and Siberian plants, the plant was returned to F. Young and master Nikifor I. Ognev, who made strip iron, “boards” to fuzey trunks in St. Petersburg and equipment for the Yoshikhinsky plant under construction, after which part of the production was transferred to the Hishshikhinsky copper smelter ^[3] .

In 1736-1744, the plant was leased by F.I. Molodoy's daughter, P.F. Yaryshkina, and her son, Mikhail Yaryshkin. Critical iron, purchased from local peasants and from the breeder Osokin, was remade at the plant. In 1743-1744, the plant was finally closed ^[1] .

Mazuevsky State Copper Smelter

In 1711, by decree of the Siberian Chancellery, it was ordered to Young F.I. to build a copper-smelting state-owned plant in Kungursky District. For this, he was assigned a salary from the treasury ^[3] . And in 1711–1712, a copper smelter was built for public money when the spring of the Mazuevsky ironworks at the Mazuevsky ironworks was built. It consisted of a tent chopped barn with 4 furnaces for smelting ore, furnaces for burning ore and cleaning copper, a water push for 16 pestles, and 6 decks for washing ore and two luminaries for the master. Copper ore was planned to be delivered from the Turkinsky, Bymovsky, Babkinsky and Garevsky mines. In 1712, 10 pounds of 25 pounds of blister copper were smelted to be sent to Moscow from ore, which was brought from two places along the Babka River in the vicinity of the village of Yanycheva ^[2] .

During the construction of the state-owned plant, peasants of Kungurskiy county were provided, to whom these works were read in taxes. But in 1712, by decree of the Siberian governor of Prince Matthew Gagarin, F.I. Molody was arrested and exiled to Tobolsk for embezzlement of government money (peasants assigned to build a state-owned plant, he used to work at his own Mazuevsky iron-making plant). The plant was closed in 1712 ^[1] , and copper smelting production was moved to the Kungur copper smelter ^[3] .