Société par Actions des Usines Métallurgiques Pachkoff à Beloretzk
Акционерное Общество Бѣлоръцкихъ Желѣзодѣлательныхъ Заводовъ Пашковыхъ
Pashkov Iron Works at Beloretsk
Other city spellings: St.-Pétersbourg, Petrograd, Pétrograde
Formed in 1874 in St. Petersburg with shares initially 250 roubles. The 1917 provisional certificates show that shares had been converted to 100 roubles each. The company operated ironworks in the small town of Beloretsk, today in Bashkortostan, a region between the Volga and the Ural Mountains.
1874
Description
The company was founded 1874. The small town of Beloretsk is today in Bashkortostan, a region between the Volga and the Ural Mountains. The town grew in the late 18th century around the new ironworks. This company is a successor of that original industry. It was the star of the Moscow Wogau group. The original Pashkov family business went bankrupt in 1874, partly in debt to the Moscow trading-house of Wogau, which had bought Pashkov’s nails, screws, wire, etc. Wogau acquired the assets, and founded this company in Beloretsk. He installed the latest English and German blast-furnace and rolling-mill technology, and built a 120 Km railway line to link with the Trans-Siberian Railway; previously the products had been dispatched by the Belaya River (when the water-level permitted). In 1910 there were more than 10.000 people working in the factory. Stalin built the great Magnitogorsk iron complex on the same vast rich iron-ore deposits. Those deposits are still exploited today for one of the largest iron and steel centres of Russia. (Source: Boone Auction Oct 2021)