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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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