Pervouralsk (until 1920 - Vasilyevsko-Shaitansky settlement) is
the administrative center of the urban district of Pervouralsk, a
city of regional subordination in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia,
the fourth most populous city in the Sverdlovsk region after
Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil and Kamensk-Uralsky.
By order of
the Government of the Russian Federation of July 29, 2014 No. 1398-r
"On the approval of the list of single-industry towns", the city was
included in the category "Single-industry municipalities of the
Russian Federation (single-industry towns) with the most difficult
socio-economic situation".
In 1702, a miner from Utkinskaya Sloboda Fyodor Rosov
discovered an iron ore deposit near Mount Volchikha.
In 1721
the village of Podvoloshnaya was founded.
In the summer of
1730, the grandson of Nikita Demidov (Nikita Demidovich Antufiev),
Vasily began the construction of an iron-smelting and iron-making
plant on the river. Shaitanka (Nizhneshaitansky, later
Vasilyevsko-Shaitansky plant).
On December 1, 1732, the
factory blast furnace produced the first cast iron. This date is
considered the date of the foundation of the city.
In 1760,
the Verkhneshaitansky ironworks was built, and a sawmill was built
on the Yelnichnaya river for the needs of both factories.
On
June 9, 1771, a riot broke out among the workers of the
Vasilyevsko-Shaitansky plant under the leadership of Andrei
Plotnikov. The owner of the plant, Efim Shiryaev, was killed.
On January 20, 1774, a detachment of Emelyan Pugachev's
associate Ivan Beloborodov entered the village. After the
suppression of the Pugachev uprising, the village was burned down.
In 1829, famous German scientists A. Humboldt and G. Rose
visited the Urals, who established in the area of ​​Beryozovaya
Mountain the place of the pass from the western slope of the Ural
Mountains to the eastern one - the border of Europe and Asia. On
this place in 1837, in connection with the passage of the heir to
the throne, the first obelisk "Europe-Asia" was erected in the
Urals.
On September 15, 1915, the first calcining furnace of
the Khrompikov chemical plant was launched. The Shaitansky chemical
plant for the production of sodium chromium peak and sulfuric acid,
built with major imperfections, was built by the Verkh-Isetsk Plants
Joint Stock Company on the basis of the Gologorsky chromium iron ore
deposit and the Bilimbaevsky limestone deposit.
For the first
time in the Urals, the production of pipes was mastered at the
Vasilyevsko-Shaitansky Plant, in connection with which on September
2, 1920 the plant was renamed into the "First Ural Plant of Seamless
and Rolled Pipes". At the end of September of the same year, by a
general meeting of citizens of the Shaitan volost, the
Vasilyevsko-Shaitansky settlement was renamed Pervouralsk.
In
1924, in the Yekaterinburg district, the Pervouralsk district was
formed with its center in the working village of Pervouralsk.
In 1929 "Khrompikstroy" was created, the expansion of the
Khrompikovy plant began.
In 1929, at the foot of Karaulnaya
Mountain, the Dinas plant was founded, the first specialized
enterprise in the Urals for the production of refractories. The
plant gave its first production in 1932.
In 1931,
construction began on the Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, the largest in
Europe.
On June 20, 1933, by the decision of the All-Russian
Central Executive Committee, the working settlement of Pervouralsk
was transformed into the city of Pervouralsk.
On May 13,
1934, the pipe-drawing shop of the Novotrubny Plant produced the
first pipes.
In the mid-1930s, the operation of the mine on
Mount Magnitka began.
In 1935, the first hot-rolled pipe was
produced at the Novotrubny Plant.
In 1935, the development of
titanomagnetite ore of the Magnitka Mountain began, the village of
Magnitka was founded.
On May 3, 1935, Pervouralsk was
allocated to a city of regional subordination with the transfer of
the territory of the abolished Pervouralsk district to it.
During the Great Patriotic War, six residents of Pervoural were
awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
In 1941, on
the basis of the evacuated equipment of the Leningrad plant
"Electric", the first in the Urals enterprise of electric welding
machines and devices was created (later - the Novoutkinsky plant
"Iskra").
On the basis of the equipment of the Krivoy Rog
plant "Metallist" in the ground services of the Gologorsky mine, a
plant for the repair of mining equipment was created, now OJSC
"Pervouralsky Plant of Mining Equipment".
In 1956 - the first
power boiler of the Pervouralskaya CHPP was put into operation.
On February 1, 1963, the Council of Working People's Deputies of
the city of Pervouralsk was transferred to the subordination of the
Sverdlovsk Regional Council of Working People's Deputies.
On
January 2, 1973, Starotrubny Plant became part of Novotrubny as a
branch. In the spring of 1973, between the settlements of Talitsa
and Magnitka, the construction of a plant for the production of
tubular building structures began, which produced the first products
in 1975.
In 1982, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet of the USSR, Pervouralsk was awarded the Order of the Red
Banner of Labor.
1986 - The Council of Ministers of the USSR
adopted a resolution on the organization in the city of Pervouralsk,
Sverdlovsk Region, for the production of electric-welded profiles of
rectangular and square sections (Resolution No. 1119 of September
20, 1986).
On January 13, 1990, 3 km east of Pervouralsk, it
made an emergency landing due to a fire aboard a Tu-134A passenger
aircraft of the Volgograd air squadron Aeroflot (tail number
USSR-65951), which was flying Tyumen - Ufa - Volgograd. Of the 65
people on board, 27 were killed (including 4 crew members).
1991 - the official date of birth of the Uraltrubprom plant, which
was subsequently transformed into the open joint stock company
Uraltrubprom Uraltrubprom due to a change in the form of ownership.
In 1996, following the results of the referendum on December 17,
1995, the municipal formation of the city of Pervouralsk was
created.
On June 7, 2000 the UNIKOM Group of Companies was founded - one
of the leading manufacturers of equipment and spare parts for the
oil and gas industry in Russia. In 2020, the PZGO stone foundry shop
became part of the enterprise - a production with 55 years of
experience in the manufacture of products from stone casting. Today
UNIKOM Group of Companies is the only Russian manufacturer of stone
casting - a unique material with high wear resistance, heat
resistance, and resistance in chemically aggressive environments.
2005 - OJSC Uraltrubprom and OJSC PZTSK (Pervouralsk Plant of
Tubular Building Structures) announced the beginning of the creation
of a single production complex. The aim of this event is to improve
the financial and economic activities of enterprises, optimize costs
and rational use of resources. From that moment on, OJSC
Uraltrubprom has been a manufacturer of metal structures of any
complexity and welded beams.
2006 - RGPPU (Russian State
Professional Pedagogical University) began its work on the basis of
the Ural Pipe Plant OJSC.
2007 - the second production site
was opened at OJSC Ural Pipe Plant as a result of the merger with
the Plant of Complex Metal Structures and the list of products
manufactured by the plant was expanded. The production of long
products, prefabricated buildings of complete delivery, steel
windows, doors and gates, road and bridge fences, corrugated board
was added.