Ochyor

Ochyor grew around the Stroganovs' ironworks, founded in 1759 on the river of the same name. Long before the plant was built, Bashkirs held lands along the Ochyor: charters of Tsars Fyodor Ivanovich in 1596 and Aleksei Mikhailovich in 1672 confirmed their rights. Russian settlement in the valley also began in the sixteenth century, when a fortified stockade was established. The eighteenth-century works introduced a new center of iron founding and forging into this older inhabited landscape.