"GRUZOVOZOFF" branch office in Lipetsk


Address:
5a Boevoy proezd Str., 398037, Lipetsk, Russia


Telephone/Fax:
+7(0742) 35-14-46, 35-82-58, 35-32-39, 79-47-02


E-mail:
lipetsk@gruzovozoff.ru


Open hours:
Monday - Friday: 9:00 - 19:00
Saturday: 10:00 - 16:00
Sunday: closed


Head of the branch office:
Eduard Kolomiets

For over 100 years scientists debate about the date birth of Lipetsk. But it is evident that its history begins on distant centuries at the time of the first records of villages of Malye Studenki, Bolshiye Studenki and Sokolie. In the 12th-13th centuries the present-day Lipetsk Region was a part of the Azov Province, where the Russian fleet had its springs. We associate the new birth of ancient village mentioned for the first time in the 13th century with the name of Peter the Great. He chose Voronezh for the shipyard construction and therefore he looked for the nearest metal source. Due to the reach iron deposits, clear rivers and huge expanses of forest, necessary for furnaces, the Lipetsk Region became the center of metallurgy. In 1703 tsar ordered the construction of two metal works in the village of Lipski Studenki on the bank of the Lipovka River (confluent of the Voronezh River) – the Borinski water-powered metallurgical plant and the Verhny metallurgical plant. The industrial community of ‘Lipetsk metal works’ was also founded. Later the Kuzminski and Nizhny Lipski metal factories were created. In 1709 the community was named the village of Lipski Works. This date is regarded today as the date of the Lipetsk foundation. In 2003 the city celebrated its 300th Anniversary. On August 16, 1781 Lipetsk received the coat of arms. IMG SRC="../img/branches/Lipetsk-n1.jpg" WIDTH=250 HEIGHT=198 BORDER=0 ALIGN=LEFT HSPACE=10 VSPACE=10 ALT=""> In the first quarter of the 13th century Lipetsk government factories slowly expanded and became the production base of the Voronezh and Baltic fleet. By decree of Catherine the Great of September 16, 1779 the village Lipski Works gained the status of a district city of the Tambov Region and was named Lipetsk. Blast furnaces and forges worked during few decades, but in 1795 Lipetsk factories depleted the fuel resources, decayed and folded up because of a strong competition of the Southern Russia's factories. After the factories shutting down the city regenerated due to the presence of mineral waters discovered in city's precincts. The chemical analysis of the chlorine sulfate sodium water showed that its quality was analogous to the water of popular at that time German resorts – Libenstein and Termont. This fact made Lipetsk mineral water very popular. In 1805 Alexander I ordered the foundation of the Lipetsk Resort (the most ancient resort in Russia). In 1806 in the old metal factories site the ‘English garden’ was created, and it laid the foundation of the Nizhny Park. At the turn of the 19th-20th centuries the city's metallurgy activity was reanimated. At the beginning of the 20th century the Sokolski ironworks, distillery and sugar-mill operated here. Due to the Belgium investment in 1902 was finished the construction of two blast furnaces that formed the base of the metallurgical factory of ‘Svobodny Sokol’. This factory produced the first cast iron on July 15, 1902. In 1931 the other gigantic factory – the Novolipetsk metallurgical plant (NLMZ, today the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Corporation NLMK) – was constructed. It started to work on November 7, 1934. Opening of the integrated iron and steel works became the turning point in city's history. Due to the NLMK since the 1930s the once little provincial city, bosomed in trees, became the world-famed industrial center of the Black Earth Region. Historical dates: In 1709 the settlement located near the factories was named the village of Lipski (later Lipetski) Metal Works. In 1779 this village became a district city of the Tambov Region and was named Lipetsk. In 1803 the mineral waters resort was opened in Lipetsk. It was one of the first Russian resorts. In 1867 the ferrous mud peat was discovered in Lipetsk, and since 1871 the mud therapy came in practice. In 1954 Lipetsk gained the status of the regional center.