Video about the history of Zlatoust factory
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History of the Zlatoust Factory Factory Founding
After the war of the Russian Empire with Napoleon in 1812, the decree of Emperor Alexander I founded the first state cold steel factory. In 1815, it was opened. Alexander von Eversman was appointed the first director of the factory.
To establish production, more than a hundred experts were invited from renowned arms centers in Europe, including Solingen and Klingenthal (Germany).
In summer 1816, the first batch of Zlatoust blades was sent to Saint-Petersburg, both combat weapons and decorated samples.
In a short time, Zlatoust masters turned from students into great masters, surpassing their German teachers with new work techniques, an artistic approach and unsurpassed quality. Later, Alexander von Eversman himself admitted that in his homeland, Germany, they could not surpass the Russian masters.
By the highest decree of the Emperor dated March 7, 1817, it was stated that the Zlatoust factory “should produce weapons instead of other weapons factories.”
In 1915, the factory made an order for almost two hundred thousand weapons. New white weapons were adopted for army by the decrees of the kings. Emperors Alexander I, Alexander II and Nicholas II personally visited Zlatoust and got acquainted with weapons production.
For a century and a half, the Zlatoust weapons factory was the only state-owned enterprise to arm an army with cold steel weapons, first Russian, then Soviet.
During the First World War, more than 600 thousand sabers, blades and cavalry spades were made. During the World War II, our army received 583 thousand combat sabers and about 1 million army knives, nicknamed the “black knife.”
In 1945, at the Victory Parade, all its participants were armed with Zlatoust cold steel.
Since 1829, Zlatoust engraving has repeatedly got commendable feedbacks and high awards at international exhibitions:
London, 1851, – bronze medal;
London, 1862 – silver medal;
Paris, 1867 – two silver medals;
Vienna, 1873 – silver medal;
Philadelphia, 1876 – two silver medals;
Paris, 1878 – gold medal;
Chicago, 1893 – large bronze medal;
Stockholm, 1897 – gold medal.
At the first largest exhibition in Russia held in Moscow in 1882, the products of our masters were awarded a gold medal.
The British spy and a great connoisseur of weapons captain James Abbot stated: “It is rather doubtful whether there is at least one factory in the whole world that would withstand the competition with Zlatoust in the manufacture of weapons that combine elasticity with the convenience of honing and sharpening to the same extent.”The Zlatoust edged weapons of high artistic value adorn the collections of the most famous museums in Russia and abroad, including the State Hermitage Museum, the Armory of the Kremlin, the Museum of the Mining Institute in Saint-Petersburg, the Military History Museum in Prague, and the Museum of History in Berlin.
The Queen of England herself holds the Zlatoust engraving. Elizabeth II’s mother Elizabeth Bose-Lyon received as a gift from the Soviet delegation – the product of the Ural craftsmen – the Inflorescence dish. Mikhail Gorbachev presented a decorative panel to the forty US President Ronald Reagan. This meeting of the heads of two world powers was of great political significance — it symbolically signified the end of the Cold War.
In 1980, on the Soyuz-T-2 spaceship, piloted by astronauts Malyshev and Aksenov, the Zlatoust engraving took off into space. The works of the artist Mikhail Antipov: the panels “Doe Kinds” and the famous “Smile of Gagarin”, overcame the gravity.
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