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HISTORY HISTORY
First mines and Altai pyramid plant was called Kolyvano-Voskresensky. However, this was the name of not only a metallurgical
Copper ore began to flow to Kolyvan from the Voskresenskoye deposit. That is why the
factories sent his estate manager Matvey Kudryavtsev, Leonty enterprise, but for a long time also a huge administrative unit - the Kolyvano-Voskresensky
In 1723, a large Ural industrialist Akinfiy Demidov
mountain district, which included almost the entire modern Russian Altai, as well as the vast
and Andrey Kabanovs to the foothills of Altai, who soon territories of Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Tomsk and East Kazakhstan regions. And Kolyvan was the
discovered rich deposits of copper ores on the slopes of capital of Altai from 1725 to 1747, until the Chancellery of the Kolyvan-Voskresensk factories
Mount Sinyukha, near Lake Kolyvan and in other places. moved to the village of the Barnaul plant.
In the spring of 1726, Demidov’s craftsmen, led The enterprise in Kolyvan consisted of a smelter with water-acting bellows for supplying
by Dmitry Semyonov, carried out a trial smelting of air to a furnace, a roasting and a dresser for smelting pure copper, a saw mill, or a water-
copper ores on the banks of the Kolyvanka River (now operated sawmill, as well as a smithy where copper dishes were made. The ore was smelted
the Loktyovka River). And in October 1727, under the using charcoal. Since 1802, the Kolyvan stone-cutting plant has been located on the territory of
leadership of Nikifor Kleopin, the Kolyvan manual plant the former Kolyvan-Voskresensk copper-smelting plant. And on the site of the manual factory,
was built. In fact, it was a small hut that housed the our contemporaries built a memorial sign in the form of a pyramid.
only copper smelting furnace. The ore of the nearby
Demidov deposit, poor in copper, was processed there.
However, the manual plant did not work for long:
it turned out that the river was shallow, its gate was
too wide, and therefore inconvenient for the device of
a water-filled wheel. And the enterprise was moved to
the Belaya River, to the neighboring village of Kolyvan,
present-day Kurinsky District.
On the site of the first Demidov mine in Altai,
200 years later, the working village of Kolyvanstroy
appeared. Its inhabitants in 1930-1950 mined tungsten
- a refractory, heavy and very hard metal, which even
Akinfii Demodov experienced mining engineers, simply did not know two
centuries earlier.
Smelter with water-acting bellows
Masters of the Copper Mountain The adit of the Novovoskresenskaya
mine has been best preserved to this day.
Voskresenskaya Sopka today is not a very It looks like a horizontal long ditch or a
noticeable hill with a height of about 450 meters, shallow cave. Researchers have found that
7 kilometers east of the village of Kazantsevo and it is 12 meters long, up to four meters high,
300 meters south of the Kurya - Kolyvan highway. and a little over a meter wide. Other mines
They are separated by the Voskresensky brook, are much larger. Moreover, in this one the
which flows into the Belaya river, lush in the miners have probably gone on a false vein,
spring. and therefore it is a dead end.
Two and a half centuries ago, on the slopes The oldest underground mine in Altai is
of Voskresenskaya Mountain, one could see the still well preserved, although it did not have
entrances to mines, ruts of horse-drawn roads, fastening posts. The fact is that it consists of
buildings for sorting and storing ore. a hornfel - a strong granite-marble rock. Oh,
On the western slope of the mountain there and it was not easy for the miners, chipping
was the Resurrection mine - the locals called it off grains of ore from the mountain range!
Starovoskresensky, the name Chuporshnevsky is On its walls today, you can see traces of
found in the literature, and the Novovoskresensky, blows with a pickaxe or pick. And find small
or Kleopinsky, mine is on the eastern slope. In niches. It can be assumed that miners piled
fact, in the body of the hill there were once six ore raw materials in them or fixed torches.
unconnected mines. This was recently established
by an expedition of the local lore association from
Kolyvanstroi worker’s settlement
the Kazantsev School ''Young Searchers'', which
made sure that ore mining was carried out in the
so-called ore nests.
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