Malcolm R Hill

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This paper describes the development of Russian steel production over some 50 years from the repeal of serfdom in 1861 up to the First World War. The paper explains that steel output, initially from established ironworks in the Ural region which were early process innovators, increased after 1861 and grew further during the 1870s and 1880s as investments were made in the north-western, central and southern regions of the Empire including present-day eastern Ukraine. Massive increases in production then followed in the 1890s following the emergence of the southern region as the major steel producer, and crude steel production overtook that of bar iron in about 1895. Furthermore, a significant proportion of steel production was from integrated works also engaged in iron smelting; and several of the works in the south, established through foreign investment, were far larger and more modern than many of their counterparts elsewhere in Russia.

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Russian steel production from the repeal of serfdom to the First World War. (2021). Historical Metallurgy, 51(2), 99-110. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/39
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