The history of Izhevsk starts as in 1760 an iron factory surrounded with the Izhevsky Zavod settlement was founded on the bank of the Izh River by order of Earl Pyotr Ivanovich Shuvalov. In 1774 the settlement was attacked with the troops of Emelyan Pugachev and was almost totally destroyed. In 1807 the Armory factory was founded here under the leadership of Andrey Fyodorovich Deryabin. Since the middle of the XIX century the factory became one of the biggest and developing in Russia. On February 21 1918 the Izhevsky Zavod settlement was converted into Izhevsk city, which soon became the capital of the region. Today Izhevsk stays the capital of the Udmurtia Republic, its industrial, educational and cultural center.
 

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