The Seversky Pipe Plant (), also known as Severna, was one of the major

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located in

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. It is one of the oldest Russian plants at the Urals. In the early-1730s rich deposits of iron ore were discovered around the

village, situated on the river Severushka. In 1734

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chose the site for the plant construction, which began on 1 April 1735. A village grew around the plant, which is now the northern part of the town Polevskoy. All production was branded with the eight-pointed

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, which is now present in the Polevskoy's

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. In 1757 the Polevskoy Plant was purchased by the Ural merchant Alexei Turchaninov along with the Polevskoy Copper Smelting Plant. File:Северский-Трубный-Завод-вид-на-заводские-эстакады.jpg, The 1886 photograph. File:Seversky trubnyi zavod.jpg, The 2014 photograph. File:Seversky trubnyi zavod Medvedev.jpg,

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visits the plant in 2014. File:Coat of Arms of Polevskoy.svg, The

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(♀) of the Polevskoy Copper Smelting Plant and the eight-pointed star of the Seversky Plant on the

coat of arms.

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