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

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located in

Polevskoy Polevskoy (russian: Полевско́й) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located southwest of Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 60,000 (1974); 25,000 (1939). History The town is best known for its ...

Sverdlovsk Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblast) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg, formerly known as ...

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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

Vasily Tatishchev Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev (russian: Васи́лий Ники́тич Тати́щев) (19 April 1686 – 15 July 1750) was a prominent Russian Imperial statesman, historian, philosopher, and ethnographer, best remembered as the author of the ...

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 Alexei Fedorovich Turchaninov (russian: Алексей Фёдорович Турчанинов; born Alexei Fedorovich Vasilyev; 1704/1705 – March 21, 1787) was a business magnate in the Russian Empire, grandfather of Pavel and Dmitry Solom ...

along with the

Polevskoy Copper Smelting Plant The Polevskoy Copper Smelting Plant ( rus, Полевской медеплавильный завод, Polevskoj medeplavilnyj zavod), also known as Polevaya or Poleva, was one of the major metallurgical facilities located in Polevskoy, in Sverdlov ...

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

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(♀) of the

and the eight-pointed star of the Seversky Plant on the

coat of arms.

References

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