Zyazin biography

The legacy of the merchant Zyazin on July 26 not a single merchant in Irbit had so many profitable houses and other real estate as a merchant of the first guild Dmitry Vasilievich Zyazin. The most wealthy Irbit merchant was a contradictory figure. Enterprising, business, financially competent, practical, jerky to stinginess and at the same time a generous philanthropist.

He possessed significant capital, but did not allow himself and his family to live in idleness. According to the assessment of the Irbita City Council for a year, many buildings of various purposes were built by a merchant: profitable houses, a telegraph office, a steam mill, packgause, and so on. The revolution of the year opened a new chapter in the history of our country, it fundamentally changed not only the state structure, but also had a great influence on millions of human destinies.

Revolutionary transformations erased the old, tsarist Russia. The Soviets gradually penetrated into all corners of our country. In the year in the city of Irbit, power passed to the advice of peasant, workers and soldier deputies. There was a civil war ahead. Dmitry Vasilyevich and his youngest son Alexander were arrested as hostages along with other eminent people of the city.

The eldest son Paul was not in Irbit, he was not injured, the daughter of the merchant did not arrest. The merchant paid the indemnity of thousands of rubles, he refused to pay additional thousands of rubles. The former residential building of Dmitry Zyazin is located along Ordzhonikidze Street, according to the documents of the State Archive in the city of Irbit, the estate included a two -story stone house of twelve rooms and one kitchen, with a spacious basement, four stone pantries in two floors, a cramped labase, a cable, a stable and an outbuilding.

In the house, electric lighting was carried out. A one -story stone building located nearby with a forged metal grille and amulets - the trading shop also belonged to the merchant. In e gg. Subsequently, the former house of Zyazin and trading shop was handed over for the needs of the Irbit city library. The library system of the city of Irbit is located in them today. According to archival documents, the merchant also belonged to a one -story building on the corner of Volodarsky and Ordzhonikidze Yekaterinburg and cheerful with the basement of the square.

After the revolution, it housed the county statistical department, the district department of the forestry, then the convoy department of the district military registration and enlistment office. The beautiful two-story stone building of the postal and telegraph office, which Zyazin transferred for the needs of the city, is located on the street. Ordzhonikidze, for a long time there was a telegraph, later the building was transferred to the Rosreestr management in the Sverdlovsk region, and at present the building has been well preserved.

As you know, the merchant Zyazin traded a croupman - high -quality wheat flour. Dmitry Vasilievich built a large mill complex, which produced pounds of flour per day. The building of his five -story steam mill is the highest in pre -revolutionary Irbit. The permission to build a mill and services to it at the intersection of the streets of the New and Pinding Streets of 50 years of October and Chekhova, the merchant received at the end of the 19th century.

The complex consisted of an elevator, stone barns, offices and residential buildings. For his mill, Zyazin acquired German equipment of Lanz. After the revolution, the mill and all service premises were transferred to the regional mill of the Urals, and in the year the mill passed to the Irbit District Executive Committee. According to the Irbit Department of the Local Economy, 43 people served the mill.

Attempts to solve the emerging food problems due to the unreasonable use of the property of a former merchant: sale at reduced prices for flour for union members, transfer of free flour for supplying orphanages, as well as endless circulars and instructions complicated the work of the enterprise. There were not enough firewood, raw materials, imported spare parts ... In the year, the mill worked for only 5 months from the Milk of the merchant Zyazin served the city for several decades, at present the building is empty, invariably attracting the attention of guests of the city, photographers and pleeritar artists.

The head of the department of the State Archive in Irbit E. Tikhonov P. The Archive fulfills requests for information on the basis of archive documents that can be sent by Russian Post by e-mail Gosarhiv-Irbit BK.