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1917 Kazan Gunpowder Plant fire
The 1917 Kazan Gunpowder Plant fire began on 14 August 1917 in the city of Kazan, which was then center of governorate within the Russian Empire, destroying the plant and spreading panic in the city on 14–16 August, and it lasted at least until 24 August. Fire resulted in minor detonations of the shells in depots, scattered over the industrial part of the city. However, most of the explosives were flooded by water from emergency reservoirs; that prevented a major explosion. Thirteen were killed by the blast and fire, 8 died of wounds, and 172, including 30 children were injured. The fire destroyed 12,000 machine guns and one million shells in depots (78,500 poods), and 542 buildings were destroyed, 152 of them totally. In addition, 1.8 million poods (29.5 tonnes) of oil were lost to the fire.〔(Лукницкий - человек-легенда )〕
==Plant==
The Kazan Gunpowder Plant was founded several miles west from Kazan in 1786 by order of Catherine the Great. Workers lived in the nearby Porokhovoy settlement, which was so big that it had its own church and mosque. In the beginning of the 20th century settlements were absorbed by Kazan. The plant had its own horse railway. It was one of Russia's best powder plants, one of the first started to produce smokeless powder in the Empire in 1893.〔(The official site of The Federal Government Enterprise "Kazansky Gosudarstvenny Kazyonny Porokhovoy Zawod" (FGE "КG KPZ") )〕 In 1884 a minor fire occurred in the plant. After this first fire Vsevolod Luknitsky, an officer who had already worked for 11 years at the plant, was appointed director. He worked at the plant as director for 32 years, until the second tragedy occurred.〔 In 1888 ''The Red Gates'' were constructed during an anniversary celebration, the only construction of the original plant preserved till today.〔 ()〕
In 1915-1916 new workshops were built to the west of the old plant, and during the fire and explosion they also were damaged, but were soon restored. The original plant, except for the ''Red Gates'' was totally destroyed in 1917.〔(Снабжение русской артиллерии орудиями и боевыми припасами во время войны )〕
In 1917, 11,600 people, including 2,500 soldiers worked at the plant.
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