"GRUZOVOZOFF" branch office in Ekaterinburg


Address:
33a Vilonova Str., 620137, Ekaterinburg, Russia


Telephone/Fax:
+ 7 (343) 379-3030, 341-1315


E-mail:
ekaterinburg@gruzovozoff.ru


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


Head of the branch office:
Andrey Nagovitsyn

Ekaterinburg was founded in 1723 on the initiative of V. Tatischev who chose the construction site for the new ironworks on the Iset River. The river was dammed up; plant floors and a church were erected near the dam. Residential buildings were constructed. The fortress was named Ekaterinburg in honour of Empress Catherine I and great martyr St. Catherine, protectress of mining crafts. According to the first town planning scheme, the city was built on the model of the best examples of the German, Dutch and French art of fortification. A European character of the town was reflected not only in its name (German word ‘burg’ means ‘town’), but in its planning. Ekaterinburg was built as a capital city of а mining region, occupying a large territory on both sides of the Urals (European and Asian parts of Russia). In 1726 a Lapidary works was built. It became the main supplier of Uralian semi-precious stones from the Urals to Saint Petersburg and many European capital cities. Ekaterinburg played a great role in the development of gold-mining industry. The gold ore extracted in the mines around Ekaterinburg was smelled here. Under Catherine the II, the main road of the Russian Empire passed through the young city. Its western part was called the Moscow Tract and the eastern one - the Great Siberian Tract. Ekaterinburg opened the way to the large and rich territories of Siberia. It was a ‘window to Asia’; likewise Saint Petersburg was, according to Peter I, a ‘window to Europe’ for Russia. Since 1830th Ekaterinburg was the centre of machine manufacturing. One state and many private factories launched production of mining and metallurgical equipment, water turbines and steam engines. In 1933 the Uralian heavy engineering plant (Uralmash) was put into operation. By 1939 it produced 80 various types of machines, many of them were unique in the USSR at that times. During the pre-war period the Uralian heavy engineering plant provided with its products hundreds of industrial enterprises, including the largest integrated iron-and-steel works, situated in Magnitogorsk and Kuznetsk. During the Great Patriotic War (the Second World War) the Uralmash produced tanks. Historical dates: In 1725 a Mint was opened in Ekaterinburg. During 150 years it produced copper coins for Russia. In 1763 the Siberian Tract, going through Ekaterinburg, connected Moscow to Siberia. In 1781 Ekaterinburg received the status of a city. It became the centre of the Ekaterinburg Region. In 1807 Ekaterinburg acquired the status of ‘mining town’. In 1878 a railway connected Ekaterinburg to Perm. In 1918 (on June 17) ex-Tsar Nikolay II and his family were shot in Ekaterinburg.