Kaslinsky

Kaslinsky takes its name from the Kasli district of the southern Urals. The ironworks at Kasli was founded in 1747 by Yakov Korobov, a merchant from Tula. Five years later Nikita Demidov bought the works, incorporating it into the holdings of a family with factories across the Urals and Siberia. During the eighteenth century the plant smelted cast iron and processed it into ploughshare, strip and lump iron.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the merchant Lev Rastorguev acquired the factory for 700,000 roubles. Kasli later became celebrated for ornamental cast iron, but its earlier output supplied much more practical needs. The succession of merchant and industrialist owners places the locality within the expansion of privately owned Ural ironmaking during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.