My small homeland - Nizhny Tagil
Nizhny Tagil Our city is located on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains, among the hills and low mountains in the Tagil River valley.Nizhny Tagil is the second largest city in the Sverdlovsk region, the largest industrial center of the Urals. Foundation of the city Our city was founded by Tula industrialists Nikita and Akinfiy Demidov. October 8, 1722 - the day the Vyisky copper-smelting plant was put into operation - became the birthday of the Nizhniy Tagil mining and plant settlement (only on August 20, 1919, Nizhny Tagil received the status of a city). Nikita Demidovich Antyufeev(Demidov)(1656 - 1725) Akinfiy Nikitich Demidov(1678 - 1745) Vyysky copper smelter(1722)