@article{Keller_2014, title={The German-Russian entrepreneur Andreas Knauf: apractical man in the Urals}, url={https://qr.urfu.ru/ojs/index.php/qr/article/view/033}, DOI={10.15826/qr.2014.1.033}, abstractNote={<p>In the previous issue of the journal, the author wrote about the industrial history of the Urals in reference to the life of Andreas Knauf (b. 05.05.1765 – d. after 1835 in Russia), a Russian-German entrepreneur and renowned personality who contributed significantly to Ural mining and cast iron industries. Being a renowned first-guild merchant and manufacturer in the Urals, Andreas Knauf became recognized for introducing new technologies in the Urals. He was a new type of businessman, caring for the material and physical wellbeing of his workers. He invested in a hospital and church, and introduced immunization against the vaccinia virus, and consequently saved thousands of cattle. Also, he invited German masters from Izhevsk and Germany, sent serfs’ children to study in Saint Petersburg (Mining Cadet Corps) and in Moscow (Moscow Commercial School). Knauf ’s service for the region resulted in increased productivity in Ural plants and improvements in their technical potential. Knauf constantly modernized production, which allowed the Zlatoust Plant’s profits to triple. He was also the first to introduce steam engines in the Urals. In 1811 he started to use steel to produce hard-to-get tools and household objects. The Russian government used his plant as a monopoly for producing cold weapons in Russia, which indirectly demonstrates that his industrial policies helped drive modernization. Being an autodidact, the businessman became an expert at metalworking, and he experimented at the Alexandrovsky Foundry in Saint Petersburg, often writing reviews on the development of the metallurgical industry for the Mining Journal. He became an honoured member of Moscow University and the Imperial Saint Petersburg Society of Naturalists.<br><br></p>}, number={1}, journal={Quaestio Rossica}, author={Keller, Andreas}, year={2014}, month={Apr.}, pages={207–218} }