The photograph above was taken by Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. It was a photo of the Headquarters of the Urals Railway Administration building in the City of Perm in 1909. Railroads were first introduced in Russia in the 1830s. By 1951 Russia had its first commercial railway that went from St. Petersburg to Moscow. […]
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The Zlatoust Plant: An Example of Russian Industrialization
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In 1909 Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii began his six year trip across Russia taking many photos of the villages and vast countryside within the Russian Empire. One of the villages he visited was Zlatoust, home to one of Russia’s most productive metal plants. Seen next to the plant along the river is a prominently …
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Town of Zlatoust
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Pictured above is the rail station in the town of Zlatoust from the early 1900s. It is in present day Russia, in the Ural Mountains region. This picture shows the growth of industrialization during the late 1800s and early 1900s in even the more rural parts of Russia. The picture was found at: https://www.wdl.org/en/item/5281/#q=Prokudin-Gorskii 
