The Gold Museum in Berezovsky is a museum located in the city of Berezovsky (Sverdlovsk Region) , dedicated to the history of the Urals gold mining industry.
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Founding date | 1970 |
opening date | Wed-Sun 11.00-17.00 |
Address | Berezovsky , Communes, 4 |
Site | uole-museum.ru/museums/m ... |
A total of five halls in the museum, which allowed the entire history of gold mining conventionally divided into thematic sections. The first hall tells about the history of gold mining in the Urals, the second about the life of the 19th century prospectors, the third explains what gold is as an element and a mineral. The fourth presents the history of Berezovsky since its inception. The fifth hall was turned into a virtual mine, where the Urals mined precious metal. In the courtyard of the museum there are also parts of machines and mechanisms that are used in gold mining [1] .
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History
The discovery of gold occurred in the vicinity of Yekaterinburg on the site of the future city of Berezovsky in 1745. On May 21 (June 1), 1745, the peasant Yerofei Markov addressed the office of the Main Board of Siberian and Ural plants in Yekaterinburg and said that while searching for rock crystal, grains similar to gold were found. But the geological party for two years could not detect the precious metal in the specified location. And only in the autumn of 1747 the first field was found. This marked the beginning of a new gold-mining industry for Russia. Soon the empire became one of the world leaders in gold mining and gold reserves .
On January 30 (February 10), 1757, a gold bar weighing 2.7 kg was sent to St. Petersburg. From this, the Berezovsky plant began its life. And in 1814, Lev Brusnitsyn discovered the method of washing alluvial gold (on the banks of the Berezovka River), which even led to the world's first gold rush. This double opening is displayed on the coat of arms and flag of the city : the lion symbolizes the discoverer Yerofey Markov, and the sun in his paws is gold (the circle in the center is ore gold , the shining crown is loose).
In the Urals, gold was found 150 years earlier than on Klondike . By the end of the 18th century, birch trades already included more than 50 mines. The Berezovskoye deposit turned out to be incredibly rich and long-lived: over 250 years more than a thousand mines were built here. Currently, there are four.
The gold museum in Berezovsky was established in 1970 on the initiative of local historian Sylvia Opyonkina. Since then, the museum has evolved, changing names, replenished with exhibits. In the late 1970s, he became a member of the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore, the successor of the Museum of Wole ( Ural Society of Science Fans ). Several years ago, the dilapidated museum building was closed for repairs, which lasted more than 4 years. In 2013, the renewed exposition of the Gold Museum was opened.
Description
The museum has a rich collection of minerals from the Berezovsky gold deposit and samples of gold-bearing rocks. A visitor can see the complex way of Russian gold in many examples - from the random discovery of Yerofey Markov in the vicinity of Berezovsky to the establishment of a settlement, and then the industrial development of Berezovsky and its environs, from the royal state monopoly to private mining the monopolies and the Stakhanov labor of Berezovans to restore the mines destroyed during the Civil War, to the post-Soviet incorporation and bankruptcy of the 1990s, to the current restoration ...
The exhibition presents unique today, but widespread one hundred years ago, professional tools and attributes of prospectors: cradle, bucket, paddles, trays, jars for collecting golden sand, scales for gold, etc. Here you can get acquainted with the maps of the gold crafts of the middle of the last last century.
The museum widely presents the history of studying the unique Berezovsky gold deposit, it is told about the ways of developing its reserves for more than two and a half centuries. A special place is given to the story of Lev Ivanovich Brusnitsin, who developed the technology of placer gold mining [2] .
All rooms present multimedia technology.