Kamen

Kamen stands on the Ob in western Siberia, where a rocky outcrop gave the settlement its name. The village is documented in 1751 within the Malyshevskaya settlement district. At that time it consisted of five households of peasants assigned to mining works, with twenty-three men and twelve women recorded. Its early history belonged to the labour and provisioning system of the Altai mining district.

During its early decades, Kamen supplied grain, groats and labour to the Suzun copper works and the Pavlovsk silver works. The village's obligations connected agricultural households on the Ob with industrial establishments elsewhere in the region. Bread production and factory service therefore formed part of the same economy, even though the villagers lived outside the works themselves. An early nineteenth-century map of the mining district recorded the settlement as Kamenka. Kamen was a small riverside village whose documented place in regional affairs arose from supplying the expanding mining and metallurgical system.