All-Russian and world exhibitions were of great importance for Russian industry, trade and culture, as they displayed samples of industrial products from all over the country. In Russia, the first industrial exhibitions were called manufactory exhibitions.
The participation of factories of the Zlatoust Mining District in domestic and international exhibitions of various levels officially began in 1828, when, according to the Imperial Decree, the first All-Russian Exhibition of Manufactory Products was organized in Saint Petersburg.
Since then, the Zlatoust plant and the arms factory regularly submitted their products at exhibitions, the high quality of which was evidenced by numerous diplomas and awards. The artistic design of stands for displaying products at exhibitions was distinguished by a non-conventional approach.
At the All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition of 1882, which took place on the Khodynka Field, one of the pavilions featured a stand of the Zlatoust Arms Factory decorated with a huge coat of arms of Russia. The national emblem was made of knives, forks, blades, cockades, and individual parts of blade weapons.
Behind the coat of arms was a vase of various blades. At the Moscow exhibition, Zlatoust factories were awarded a gold medal for the high quality and finish of blade weapons, cutlery and tools. They also received a silver medal with a second-category diploma for the use of open-hearth steel for making gun barrels, for the introduction of metal baths for hardening blades and emery grinders and drawing blades in rolls, as well as for experiments that made steelmaking and some technological improvements to blast furnace production cheaper.
The second-category diploma was typographically printed on a sheet of cardboard. The text was enclosed in a colorful decorative frame, which was designed in the old Russian style. Red and gold colors were mostly used. At the corners of the ornament, images of griffins and ducks are presented; the upper part of the diploma features the obverse and reverse of the silver medal of the exhibition.
The document was signed by the Director of the Department of Trade and Manufactories of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire Nikolay Andreyevich Yermakov and the head of division Vasily Ivanovich Timiryazev. In the lower right corner, the number of the diploma (10616) as well as the date of issue, are handwritten in ink.
The participation of factories of the Zlatoust Mining District in domestic and international exhibitions of various levels officially began in 1828, when, according to the Imperial Decree, the first All-Russian Exhibition of Manufactory Products was organized in Saint Petersburg.
Since then, the Zlatoust plant and the arms factory regularly submitted their products at exhibitions, the high quality of which was evidenced by numerous diplomas and awards. The artistic design of stands for displaying products at exhibitions was distinguished by a non-conventional approach.
At the All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition of 1882, which took place on the Khodynka Field, one of the pavilions featured a stand of the Zlatoust Arms Factory decorated with a huge coat of arms of Russia. The national emblem was made of knives, forks, blades, cockades, and individual parts of blade weapons.
Behind the coat of arms was a vase of various blades. At the Moscow exhibition, Zlatoust factories were awarded a gold medal for the high quality and finish of blade weapons, cutlery and tools. They also received a silver medal with a second-category diploma for the use of open-hearth steel for making gun barrels, for the introduction of metal baths for hardening blades and emery grinders and drawing blades in rolls, as well as for experiments that made steelmaking and some technological improvements to blast furnace production cheaper.
The second-category diploma was typographically printed on a sheet of cardboard. The text was enclosed in a colorful decorative frame, which was designed in the old Russian style. Red and gold colors were mostly used. At the corners of the ornament, images of griffins and ducks are presented; the upper part of the diploma features the obverse and reverse of the silver medal of the exhibition.
The document was signed by the Director of the Department of Trade and Manufactories of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire Nikolay Andreyevich Yermakov and the head of division Vasily Ivanovich Timiryazev. In the lower right corner, the number of the diploma (10616) as well as the date of issue, are handwritten in ink.
