Monday, 5 October 2026

View of the former Stroganov cast-iron foundry on the lake in Satka, Chelyabinsk Oblast

Brick industrial buildings with chimneys and furnace structures stand by a lake, with a domed church and white town buildings to the right.

Photographed an extraordinary view in the town of Satka, Chelyabinsk Region, on the shore of a genuine factory lake, straight out of Alexey Ivanov's "Mining-Works Civilisation". The photograph shows the Iron Foundry, founded by a Stroganov, though I do not know to which period this particular building belongs.

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