Vysokovskaya manufactory

In 1864, merchants G. L. Kashaev ^[1] and I. V. Vasiliev, in the village of Nekrasino, Petrovsky Volost, Klin district, founded a small weaving factory for 50 looms. The building was wooden and soon burned down. In 1877, the owners built a new stone factory building not far from the same village, at the foot of the Vysokovo hill on the left bank of the Vyaz River. The new factory began to work 318 looms brought from England. Nearby were deposits of clay and the merchants also built a small brick burning plant, which was used in the construction of factory buildings. Workers in the factory were peasants from nearby villages.

Weaving production was located in a two-story building and produced a serge, Manchester, and calico. After some time, the production was beyond the power of the factory owners, and Grigory Kashaev invited his nephew - Ivan Nikitich Kashaev ^[2] , who served in Perm in the Volga-Kama Bank, to become the third partner in the business. Ivan Kashaev first took over as an accountant at the factory, and then became its manager. Ivan Nikitich worked in the Partnership from 1879 to 1906, he was awarded the title of honorary citizen, he was also awarded the breast silver medal "For Diligence" on the Stanislavsky and Anninsky tapes.

Through the efforts of Ivan Nikitich Kashaev, the “Association of Vysokovskaya Manufactory” was formed with a capital of 500,000 thousand rubles (100 units of 5,000 rubles each, by the beginning of the 20th century - 600 units). In 1879, foreigners were invited to the founders of the Partnership: a citizen of the British Empire, Roman Romanovich McGill (Robert McGill), Karl Ivanovich Gesti, Baron Fyodor Lvovich Knoop , Commerce Counselor Ivan Karlovich Prové . ^[3] Women and adolescents began to be taken to the factory, and their work was paid significantly lower. ^[4] For the workers of the manufactory, near the factory, a two-storey residential building was erected in the style of the barracks. In 1880, another four-storey barracks was built, over the next thirty years several more of the same brick buildings were built. So a settlement grew up around the factory, which was named Vysokovsk . ^[5] In 1882, the share capital of the Partnership increased to 1,800,000 rubles.

In 1882, Vysokovsk manufactory was awarded a bronze medal at the All-Russian Exhibition in Moscow and a gold medal at the All-Russian Exhibition in 1896 in Nizhny Novgorod for high quality products. ^[3]

In 1901, the Partnership began the development of peat in the Sankovsky swamp. In 1910, a narrow-gauge railway was built from Vysokovsk to Sankov. In 1914, a high-grade railway line connected Vysokovsk with the city of Klin . During the First World War, production at the factory was reduced, as part of the workers were sent to the front. By the February Revolution, the situation at the factory deteriorated, mostly due to the lack of raw materials. During the revolution in Vysokovsk crowded meetings and rallies were held. The Council of Workers' Deputies was created, in September 1917 a Red Guard detachment was formed, the number of workers who became members of the RSDLP (b) increased. ^[five]

After the October Revolution , workers came to the management of the factory. At the suggestion of the Bolsheviks, Vasily Alexandrovich Yermolin was appointed director of the Vysokovskaya factory. ^[6] During the Civil War, the factory worked intermittently, but remained the largest in the Klin district. It exists to the present. ^[7]

It is interesting that the Hero of the Soviet Union, Nikolay Filippovich Papivin , worked at the factory in 1916-1918.

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