Gogin, Vasily Egorovich

Vasily Egorovich Gogin was born in 1868 in a peasant family in the Yuryev district of Vladimir province . He graduated from the city school and after that he moved to Verkhneuralsk . In this small town, his father, Yegor Leontyevich Gogin, became the head of an industrial enterprise with a noble Moscow merchant and businessman Ganshin, who, in turn, had a whole chain of stores throughout the Russian Empire . In 1882, Ganshin ended up in Verkhneuralsk, where he opened a retail outlet ^[1] .

On December 26, 1904, the commercial and industrial enterprise Vasily Gogin and Co. was founded. The managers of this trading house were Vasily Egorovich, Egor Leontyevich and Alexei Ivanovich Gogins, brothers. This industrial enterprise relied on flour milling, trade in manufactory, haberdashery and other things in the Orenburg province of Verkhneuralsk and Troitsk counties. Vasily Egorovich Gogin owned his shops in Beloretsk and Miass manufactories. Already in 1915, the company was engaged in the sale of groceries and "colonial" goods, manufactory, haberdashery, dresses, teas and sugar; however, the price list of the trading house did not end with these goods. Also in the newspaper Verkhneuralskiy Listok an ad appeared:

The Partnership Vasily Gogin & Co. obtained: fresh sturgeon, asp caviar, salted dvinskaya salted, the best scouring flour and seeder, Tula buckwheat flour, oatmeal, oatmeal, poppy seeds, diced cereal, rice.

The total capital of the trading house was 360,000 rubles ^[2] .

However, the main business that brought the main income was the steam mill of V.E. Golubev. He bought it from the merchant P.E. Kulikov in 1909; at that time it was not completed, and Golubev completed the construction. This mill was a whole complex, located according to the technical features of the factory itself. The main building was built on four floors of brick . Now this complex of several structures is an object of cultural heritage of Russia and its history ^[3] .

For example, the miller worker Pyryev described the enterprise as follows:

In the small and large buildings stood two millstones - an octagon, which means 800 millimeters in diameter. One millstone in the corner was quite small. On it it was possible to the private trader even to grind a bag of grain. And what sieves stood at Gogin's screenings! Bronze, the numbers are small, you can’t see the cell. The drive to all mechanisms was common. And the steam locomobile twisted the shafts. The engine room was next to the main building. From old times, there was a warehouse under the flour in the middle of the yard. How many Gogin did these warehouses have? So they stood in a solid row along the block. Yes, in the territory more than one barn showed off. And all were clogged with flour and grain. Hanging galleries went to some from the mill, and through them flour was fed to the warehouses. And with one barn, a large building was connected by a brick tunnel to the height of a person. Steam engines to the mill were brought from Germany.

Gogin founded two two-story houses in Verkhneuralsk: one for housing, and the second for a shopping store. On the second floor, he arranged a sewing studio, where he delivered tailors and cutters from the Vladimir province . Residents of the town recalled how Gogin traveled around Russia and called artisans, tailors, merchants to his city to work for him on his own business. Those who agreed received an apartment from him, a job and much more ^[4] .

In addition, V.E. was also a gold miner. He began this business with a small trade and a gold mine with a total of 15 feet 36 spools a year. The merchant went through a lot and became the manager of the Gumbey Gold Industry Partnership with a production of 5 pounds 34 pounds 77 spools per year. This allowed the Gogins to become the richest family in Verkhneuralsk. In total, property was insured for a total amount of 40,000 rubles according to the data of 1915 ^[4] .

Due to the work of Golubev, a department of the Siberian Trade Bank was opened in his city, for which the businessman gave the building that belonged to him. Another major charity company Golubev was the project of the power plant. He set up a dynamo to light his shop and apartment in the center. For this, a 3 km power line was extended. Due to this, electricity appeared in Verkhneuralsk. He also had the first French car in the city, which was red-brown in color. His servant, an employee Mikhontsev, was specially sent to Moscow to learn the art of driving and servicing a car ^[4] .

Death and Heritage

According to the ancestors of Gogin, in 1918 he went to Moscow, where he was arrested and held in Butyrka prison. According to unconfirmed information, he died there. By order of the Soviet government, all the property of the Gogins was arrested first and foremost. They tried to find a family in order to bring them to court ^{[4] [5]} .

In Verkhneuralsk itself, several buildings have been preserved that were either built or somehow connected with Gogin. These were residential buildings, his mill and his shops. The store building in the town of Beloretsk ^{[4] [5] has also been} preserved.

Vasily Egorovich Gogin made a huge contribution to the development of his city. He is revered and respected today, where the architectural appearance of the city itself is preserved ^{[4] [5]} .

Charity and social activities

Gogin was actively engaged not only in activities, both social and public, but also invested his money in various kinds of projects. For example, he was elected several times by the mayor. January 1, 1913 he was awarded the title of honorary hereditary citizen ^{[4] [6]} .

Thanks to Gogin’s investment, they made gas lanterns in the streets, and even opened their own shadow theater. In 1913, Gogin's company transferred 38 telephone numbers to the city administration. On major Christian holidays, workers filled bags of flour from their mill and delivered them free of charge to families ^[4] .

Also, thanks to the participation of the merchant, a school was built. For its foundation, Gogin invested 1,500 rubles annually in it. By the decree of the Emperor of All-Russian Nicholas II, his portraits were hung in the school he built, and in 1914 for three years he became an honorary trustee of this school ^{[4] [7]} .