Place: Russia, Altai Territory, Zmeinogorsk Materials: Zmeinogorsk ore complex XVIII-XIX century. [Project], Zmeinogorsk-historical city of Russia [Text], industrial architecture of Altai [Text]
Project team:Anisiforov P.I., Sergeyev A.D.
Project history:
Historical research and urban development project reveals the secrets of the ore Altai, and reveals the unique mining and industrial engineering achievements of the time Akinfiy Demidov.
The name of the Ore Altai has a history, in the 18th century the so-called large area, rich in polymetallic ores: it included the South-Western Altai Mountain Kolyvan and East Kazakhstan oblast. Since the 18th century, Rudny Altai investigated how the Russian (the ethnographer Stepan Krashennikov, academics Chikhachev P. A., And V. Vernadsky and A. Fersman) and German scholars (historian Gerard Miller, the German naturalist Johann Gmelin, the German naturalist Alexander Humboldt, the German botanist Carl Ledebour zoologist Alexander BREM, G. Miller, and many others). All of them inspected the mines of Kolyvan and Zmeinogorsk, and then moved towards Riddersk (Ust-Kamenogorsk in Kazakhstan). Kolyvan with its surrounding areas and the famous stone-cutting Kolyvan-Voskresensky plant was the center of attraction for naturalists of that time. Now the entire low Kolyvan ridge is called Mountain Kolyvan.
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