Bisert

Bisert grew around an ironworks on the Bisert River in the wooded Urals. Grigory Demidov obtained permission to build the works in 1760, and its first forging hammer began operating in November 1761. In January 1774 a force under Ivan Beloborodov, fighting in Pugachev's rebellion, took the works without a battle. The plant continued to produce bar iron in the decades that followed.