The History of Ekaterinburg.
A town of Ekaterinburg was born in place known as Historical Garden. In the 18th century the war against Sweden was already won russian iron was transported to England & to Sweden. The country needed more & more. At that time some plants were built in the Urals. In 1712 Peter the Great sent Tatishchev, 23 years old captain, to become the first chief of all the plants of the Urals. Tatishchev decided to built a new plant & the town around it. He had chosen this very place on the Iset river. In summer of 1723 a dam was built. It was large – 209 meters long. It was made of larch – tree. That’s why it hadn’t been repaired since then. This tree without contact with air becomes as hard as a stone.
Not far from the dam on both sides of the river the iron-making plant was built. On the 18th of November 1723 the plant began to work & we consider this date as the birthday of the city.
It was rounded by the rampart to defend the town & the plant. But the guns that were standing on the walls never shot because there were no enemies at this part of the country. At that time Ekaterinburg was only 1 square kilometer long. Now Ekaterinburg is over 400 square kilometers. In the Historical Garden you can see a Capsule of Time. It contains a letter to the citizens of the 21 century, books & films about Ekaterinburg. It was laid down in 1973 it should be opened in 2023. Ekaterinburg will be 300 years.
Ekaterinburg - an Industrial Centre
Ekaterinburg is one of the leading industrial centres of Russia. There are over 200 industrial enterprises of all-Russia importance in it. The key industry is machine-building. The plants of our city produce walking excavators, electric motors, turbines, various equipment for industrial enterprises.
During the Great Patriotic War Sverdlovsk plants supplied the front with arms and munitions and delivered various machinery for restoration of Donbass collieries and industrial enterprises of the Ukraine.
The biggest plants of our city are the Urals Heavy Machine Building Plant (the Uralmash), the Urals Electrical Engineering Plant (Uralelectrotyazhmash), the Torbomotorny Works (TMZ), the Chemical Machinery Building Works (Chimmash), the Verkh Iset Metallurgical Works (VIZ) and many others.
The Urals Heavy Machinery Building Plant was built in the years of the first five-year plan period. It has begun to turn out production in 1933. The machines and equipment produced by the Uralmash have laid the foundation for the home iron and steel, mining and oil industries. The plant produces walking excavators and draglines, drilling rigs for boring super-deep holes, crushing and milling equipment for concentrators. The plant also produces rolling-mills, highly efficient equipment for blast furnaces, powerful hydraulic presses and other machines. The trade mark of the Uralmash is well-known all over the world.
The Electrical Engineering plant was put into operation in 1934. At the present time it is a great complex of heavy electrical machine-building. It produces powerful hydrogenerators, transformers, air and oil switches, rectifiers & other electrical equipment. Besides, it is one of the main producers of high-voltage machinery.
The Turbo-Motorny Works produces turbines & diesel motors for powerful trucks. The turbines manufactured by this plant are widely known not only in our country, but also abroad. The plant turned out its first turbines in 1941.
The Urals Chemical Works, the greatest plant in the country, produces machinery for the chemical industry. It also produces vacuum- filters used in different branches of oil industry.
The Verkh-Iset Metallurgical Works the oldest industrial enterprise in Ekaterinburg is now the chief producer of high grade transformer steel in the country.
Now complex mechanization & automation of production processes are being used at all industrial enterprises of Ekaterinburg. Its plants make great contribution to the development of our country’s national economy.
