Alexei Turchaninov

Alexei Fedorovich Turchaninov (Russian: Алексей Фёдорович Турчанинов; born Alexei Fedorovich Vasilyev; 1704/1705 – March 21, 1787) was a business magnate in the Russian Empire, grandfather of Pavel and Dmitry Solomirsky, the member of the wealthy Turchaninov family.

He placed high emphasis on metallurgy at the Troitsky Copper Smelting Plant, constantly seeking to improve the product quality.

[1] He supplied high-quality copper cookware to the court and gained favour with the Empress Elizabeth.

These factories represented the so-called Sysert Mining District (Russian: Сысертский горнозаводской округ, romanized: Sysertskij gornozavodskoj okrug).

Turchaninov managed to repel all the attacks by the rebel forces, preventing them from advancing further to Yekaterinburg.

The image of a heron was used as a brand of the metallurgical plants in the Sysert Mining District till the 20th century.

Turchaninov's marble gravestone at the Lazarevskoe Cemetery (in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra ).
Alexei Turchaninov's heron on the coat of arms of Sysert .