On this day

Petrovsky Ironworks and Cannon Foundry founded

9 September 1703

During the Northern War (1700–1721), where Russia fought Sweden for access to the Baltic Sea, the Russian army and navy were in dire need of weapons and cannons. Karelia was close to the territory of hostilities, which lakes and swamps abounded in iron ore, forests could provide a lot of charcoal needed for smelting ore, and Lake Onega created the conditions for delivering cannons to the army in the field. By decree of Tsar Peter I on August 29 (September 9), 1703, at the mouth of the Lososinka River in the Olonetsky district, the Shuisky (from 1704 - Petrovsky) ironworks and cannon foundry was founded, from the foundation of which the city of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic, traces its history Karelia.

Birth of the great Russian writer and thinker, one of the world's greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy

9 September 1828

Leo Tolstoy was born on August 28 (September 9), 1828 in the family estate Yasnaya Polyana (now the Leo Tolstoy museum-estate in the Shchekinsky district of Tula Region). On his father’s side he came from the Tolstoy family, and on his mother’s side from the family of the Volkonsky princes. He spent his childhood in the family estate, and after the death of his parents (his mother died in 1830, and his father in 1837), he and his three brothers and sister moved to Kazan, to live with their guardian P. Yushkova. Subsequently, he gave Princess Marya Bolkonskaya the features of her mother and her portrait resemblance, and the image of her father served as the prototype for Nikolai Rostov (“War and Peace”).

“Children Literature” Publishing House established

9 September 1933

September 9, 1933, in accordance with a Decree of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks "On the publishing of children's literature" the largest specialized publishing house in USSR that issued books for children and adolescents – Detgiz was established on the basis of the children's sector of the  “Molodaya Gvardia” ("Young Guards") Publishing House and the school sector of the State Literary Publishing House.