Sim ( Russian : Сим ) is a town in Ashinsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast , Russia . It is located on the Sim River , 340 kilometers (210 mi) west of Chelyabinsk and is the administrative center of the oblast . Population: 14,466 ( 2010 Census ) ; 16,377 ( 2002 Census ) ; 20,164 ( 1989 Soviet census ) .
6-580: It was founded in 1759 and named Simsky Zavod ( Си́мский Заво́д , lit. Sim's Plant ). The settlement was formed around an ironworks . It was renamed Sim and granted town status on November 13, 1942. Within the framework of administrative divisions , it is incorporated within Ashinsky District, together with two rural localities , as the Town of Sim . As a municipal division , the Town of Sim
12-566: Is derived from the Greek words sideros - iron and ergon or ergos - work. This is an unusual term in English, and it is best regarded as an anglicisation of a term used in French , Spanish , and other Romance languages . Historically, it is common that a community was built around the ironworks where the people living there were dependent on the ironworks to provide jobs and housing. As
18-598: Is incorporated within Ashinsky Municipal District as Simskoye Urban Settlement . It is the birthplace of Igor Kurchatov , a famous Soviet/Russian physicist. Ironworks An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e. the singular of ironworks is ironworks . Ironworks succeeded bloomeries when blast furnaces replaced former methods. An integrated ironworks in
24-480: The 19th century usually included one or more blast furnaces and a number of puddling furnaces or a foundry with or without other kinds of ironworks. After the invention of the Bessemer process , converters became widespread, and the appellation steelworks replaced ironworks. The processes carried at ironworks are usually described as ferrous metallurgy, but the term siderurgy is also occasionally used. This
30-414: The following: The mills operating converters of any type are better called steelworks, ironworks referring to former processes, like puddling . After bar iron had been produced in a finery forge or in the forge train of a rolling mill, it might undergo further processes in one of the following: Most of these processes did not produce finished goods. Further processes were often manual, including In
36-425: The ironworks closed down (or was industrialised) these villages quite often went into decline and experienced negative economic growth. Ironworks is used as an omnibus term covering works undertaking one or more iron-producing processes. Such processes or species of ironworks where they were undertaken include the following: From the 1850s, pig iron might be partly decarburised to produce mild steel using one of
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